| sunsetvalley | Plot Ideas, help, etc |
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Oct 6, 2009 - 18 22 |
((Becka if you don't want this post here then by all means please delete it.)) Okay so my idea for this year if to write my life after I got my first horse, but then to add in made up parts. My biggest problem is how to show what is real and what isn't. Like I'm going to write about the night my mom passed away, but then about a made up race that I jockeyed a horse in (I'm never even ridden English). Anyone have any ideas? Everyone one feel free to post your ideas and ask for help |
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Oct 6, 2009 - 18 37
Posts like this are exactly what the NaNo boards are for :) Post away!
Are the readers supposed to know that some of the parts are real and others are fiction? Or are you writing a fiction book with real elements?
If the former, maybe you can change the voice of the character a bit during the fiction parts. They can sound less sure of themselves ("and then I won the race... yeah, I won!") like they are trying to convince themselves as well as the audience. But the other times they are just telling you what happened, straight-forward, without a whole lot of commentary or glamorizing the scene ("the horse barn smelled like manure and dry hay").
Or you could do seperate chapters for the ficticious scenes. Although you would still need some way to designate them as fiction.
----------2005: Lane's Girl: *winner*
2006: After Ancient: *winner*
2007: Pike's Revenge: *winner*
2008: Phooka Tales *winner*
2009: Apollo and Daphne
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11,596 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 19 35
the way I see it is it's third person omniscient and starts off with it being real the actual story of my getting my first pony. then later in the story it becomes fictional and I want the read to somehow know that it's fictional with me having to spell it out for them. Basically it's what has happened to me and then what I'd love to have happen to me,
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Oct 6, 2009 - 20 47
Definitely don't feel bad. I'm completely plotless over here. I've got an idea in my head that possibly involves triplets but I haven't the slightest idea how it would play out and even if it would produce 50,000 words. I just think that my story should have a set of triplets I know in it, because...well, I just know they should be there. Other than that... I have a feeling practically everything will be coming off the fly.
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Oct 8, 2009 - 21 05
Sunset - I think that people would assume that it's all fiction, unless you state otherwise. Or you could title it something like, "The mostly true account of my life, with some made up bits." If that doesn't work, italics might do the trick. Ah, font formatting.
11,596 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 02 47
I was thinking maybe adding something either at the end of the chapter or the end of the story
40,283 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 19 35
That could work!
11,596 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 08 00
think so? Like an author's notes or something?
53,568 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 04 53
That could work - they did that with one of my favorite books and it worked really well. (Of course, that book was completely fiction, but written as if it were true)
Anyone have any ideas for something that a couple of high school boys would do that might knock down a small brick wall? Other than driving into it. I'm thinking it's part of a fence, and their punishment will be to rebuild it, so it can't be a house wall or anything. But I just can't think of anything other than a car that would knock over a wall.
----------2005: Lane's Girl: *winner*
2006: After Ancient: *winner*
2007: Pike's Revenge: *winner*
2008: Phooka Tales *winner*
2009: Apollo and Daphne
www.stickynotestories.com
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Oct 16, 2009 - 05 40
Maybe one of the kids stole their parents bowling balls and they played it out in the neighborhood somewhere. Squirrel bowling? lol. Or maybe that's too early serial killer.
Also I was looking around at Greenville's region for more tips on writing, and this one girl said she used Q10 to help her with keeping up with her word count, notes while she was writing , and automatic saving, etc... You guys should check it out, it's actually really cool.
----------All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
40,283 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 12 47
Also, Q10 has a really spiffy typerwriter sound. It even makes the ding sound when you hit enter. :)
I tried to run the small brick wall thing past my husband who grew up with brothers. However, once I ran the squirrel bowling thing past him, we ran into a bit of a roadblock. His response? "The squirrel wouldn't do a thing to the wall." Apparently he saw the squirrel being balled up and thrown.
What about a chain reaction that ends in the wall getting knocked down? Still not sure what would start it. I'm seeing a tree falling down. But then, what knocks over the tree? --musemusemuse--
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Nov 3, 2009 - 18 59
I had a list of plots I've been gathering over the past year. I started one on Sunday, but as I added more on Monday it turned out my heart wasn't really in it, so I switched to another plot that I'm really loving now! I've only got 282 words written so far, but I'm working on term papers that are due this Monday, soo..... yeah, bad time for term papers to be due, right? Don't these professors know it's NaNoWriMo time?!
----------Anyway, if anybody needs any plot ideas, I've got a list I'd be willing to share! :)
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