Have you got it figured out? Will it be adventure, fantasy, absolute crack?
I have discovered that I will be writing two completely unrelated novels, because if I don't write them in November they will never be written and the world will be robbed of my genius. (side question - is it ethical to count the words for both when I'm putting in my word count?)
One shall be called "Yet Another Vampire Novel" because I desperately want to write vampires once in my life and I may as well poke fun while I'm at it.
The other one will be called "112 characters left" and will be a romance which starts on twitter by pure chance will be written in tweets and blog entries and such. Think of the way "Dracula" was written and then update it 103 years.
So, care to share?
----------
I got nothing.
45,045 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 11 38
The Luddite Clause will be my first bash at a mystery novel since I wrote Cluedo fan fiction in grade four.
Blurb:
Linda Delgado, a proofreader used to doing all her work on screen, is less than impressed when a hefty typewritten manuscript lands on her desk. But her initial disdain turns to intrigue when she realises that there is a secret message hidden within the pages -- a cry for help. She must uncover the identity of the author and find out where they are being held before time runs out...
Oooh. Ahhh. Excitement!
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
50,097 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 20 52
I'm writing fantasy, loosely based on a D&D campaign. It's moving pretty far away from its origins, though, since I prefer personal-level stories and grey morality to world-shaking good versus evil.
Once I started messing with the setting all sorts of unexpected things started popping into my head. I'm not really sure where it's going to end up, but it should be fun.
16,033 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 21 05
I'll be writing yet another pretentious fantasy novel. In fact, it's yet another young adult pretentious fantasy novel set in the near future. One year I'm going to branch out and try writing something else for nano.
I like the idea of the twitter novel!
----------2005 - The Lost City
2006 - The Ocean at the End of the World
2007 - The Mythology of Planet X
2008 - How the World Ended
2009 - The future is bleak
50,153 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 22 04
All these ideas sound awesome, its a shame we don't get to read each others accomplishments... or do we? Has there ever been anything organised to allow people to read each others stories? I'm thinking after november, when the writing rush is over? Lauren might know...
On a side note, my story is a Sci Fi genre survivor story, but I have a feeling it might not end up as scifi as I imagine. Guess we'll see at the end of november, I have a feeling i'll be crossing all sorts of boundaries in a effort to reach 50k and end the story.
----------Daniel - www.twitter.com/watchingdan
51,807 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 23 06
I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and having my first shot at historical drama after two speculative fiction and one crime drama efforts. I had a bit of a flash of inspiration late last year shortly after the last one closed, and now I have a very loose take on the Macbeth story set in the Roman Empire.
Problem is, I know relatively little about the Romans, although it was lucky for me that the Pompeii exhibition is on at the moment!
----------Caffeine Spider
44,406 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 23 40
I'm having a crack at horror this time around: my main character is a landscape architect who's been caught in Melbourne in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. He has no idea what's happened to his wife and daughter and so he sets out to find them with only a crowbar, his blue heeler Cobalt and a digital voice recorder.
The story format is where it's interesting: a military scouting unit picked up the voice recorder, and the story's being presented as the transcript of the audio files on the recorder. Should be interesting to do.
45,178 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 02 14
I am happy to volunteer as research/resource fairy for anyone who might need me.
That sounds awesome. For real.
----------I got nothing.
79,254 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 03 41
I'm writing stuff... its got space ships innit... and space stations crashing into planets... n' prostitute robots.. and people who are cats... and space marines n' stuff...
I like it... is kinda cool....
----------Shut up and LOVE it!
44,406 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 16 03
Are they from the future?
45,045 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 17 30
People are more than welcome to offer their stories for others to read. Perhaps once November is over we can start a thread for people to post their story blurb in, and then anyone who wants to read it can PM the author with their email address. We haven't really had anything formally organised in the past, but it'd be fun to share.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
68,506 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 19 28
Are they from the future?
"Bernard, look. Bernard. Bernard. Look, Bernard. Bernard. Bernard. Bernard. Look, Bernard."
Sorry, another Black Books geek rearing her strange head over here. Don't mind me, carry on ;)
...
Oh, and to answer the actual question, I'll be writing dark fantasy. Well, kinda steampunkish dark fantasy. With two teenage-ish boys that live in a giant lab set on a bloody great zeppelin floating above (Neo) Victoria, who are lab experiments in training as psychic weapons (y halo thar Uri Geller) for a paranoid cloned Queen Victoria II and a mad scientist and stuff.
*re-reads that paragraph* Er, yes. This is probably why it's not a good idea to drink too much Vanilla Coke, children.
----------51,859 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 19 20
"its like looking through the eye of a duck"
"and sucking all the fluids from its beak"
Yet another Black Books geek... Gotta love it
And I will be writing book two in a trilogy I started in November (a dry run for WriMo). Its fantasy/supernatural. Kind of based on Medieval British Isles time with Celtic mythology thrown in. Its called the Immortal Night Trilogy,and book one was The Battle for Caislean Scath...
----------45,045 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 19 33
There's some great ideas here, people!
Although I do have a confession to make.
I ate all your bees.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
52,480 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 19 58
I'm writing a dark science fiction dystopia story. It will still have my usual dark political horror bent to it but science fiction is a new genre for me so it will be interesting.
It's called Barbarism and is based around the premise from a Rosa Luxemburg quote that if we didn't overturn society and create socialism, then society would descend into Barbarism.
"Friedrich Engels once said: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”… the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery…In this war imperialism has won. Its bloody sword of genocide has brutally tilted the scale toward the abyss of misery. The only compensation for all the misery and all the shame would be if we learn from the war how the proletariat can seize mastery of its own destiny and escape the role of the lackey to the ruling classes."
----------NaNoWriMo '09: Barbarism - "...society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism..."
Blog | Twitter
51,416 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 01 25
Wonderdog, that sounds dangerously furry.
...
Where can I get a copy?
Hahahahahahahaha. I'm going to do the same thing I did in 2007. The overly ambitious sci-fi novel about life, the universe and everything through the eyes of a misplaced alien thingy. Except I pretty much deleted everything I wrote in NaNo 2007 and revised it twice since then.
79,254 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 03 32
Wonderdog, that sounds dangerously furry.
...
Where can I get a copy?
Hahahahahahahaha. I'm going to do the same thing I did in 2007. The overly ambitious sci-fi novel about life, the universe and everything through the eyes of a misplaced alien thingy. Except I pretty much deleted everything I wrote in NaNo 2007 and revised it twice since then.
You say you're doingsomething you did in 2007, so this means you're not new. This implies that you cannot get "dangerously furry", now when you've read what the wombats and ninjas did to Elvis...
----------Shut up and LOVE it!
21,517 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 03 41
Oh, wow! I love how varied everyone's ideas are. And all of them sound so intriguing I want to sit down and read them all right now...except that they haven't been written yet...
Yes. So. I'm writing a story that evolved from the fairytale of the twelve dancing princesses. I'm changing it to five though, and focusing on the love story between the third princess and her faerie prince. Obviously there's all sorts of obstacles in their way, from the fact that they live in two different realms, to the war that is slowly but surely moving closer, and the nobleman who is harbouring a secret love for the princess.
50,088 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 03 52
After three years writing fanfic for NaNo, this year I'm trying my hand at non-fiction.
Nine Years In The Pit will be an autobiographical piece of the last nine years in my current employment. And trust me, when you work reception for a high profile church, there's a lot of material to use.
This last weekend alone has given me a good 5,000 words' worth, at the very least. Needless to say, it won't be offered for publication until after I find a new job....
40,675 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 06 13
I like the dead bees on the windowsill!
Anyway. I'm writing something of a blend between gen-fic, romance and there'll probably be a bit of ero-fic in there too. It's about how a couple meets, the main male character trying to overcome his low self-esteem and the main female character trying to break out of an abusive relationship. It's called スパイス！ In English, it means 'SPICE!'.
----------You could have said a word, but you turned away. Or do you always act in such a passive way?
2008 NaNo: 帰り道 // the returning road (Failed)
2009 NaNo: スパイス！ (Working Title)
60,200 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 06 38
I'm working to turn an online sims story (with Machinema) that took me 5 years to complete into a prose novel/novella, which hopefully will then be publishable.
It's a gay romance with supernatural/gothic horror elements... um... well... if you're really interested, feel free to read the current version (with pretty pictures).
19,941 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 15 25
Wow, these all sound so awesome! I like the idea of the Twitter romance...
I'm writing book two of a seven part series (I aim to have book one done by November). It's set in Victorian era England, and focuses on a young sorcerer's apprentice. In book two: zombies, psychopaths, a murder mystery, and just a hint of romance. And a dog named Tesla.
----------2009 Pre-Nano:The Magician (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 1): 65,008wds
2009 Nano: The Hanged Man (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 2): ????
79,254 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 15 47
It's a gay romance with supernatural/gothic horror elements... um... well... if you're really interested, feel free to read the current version (with pretty pictures).
So, you're qwriting Twilight fanfic then?
----------Shut up and LOVE it!
60,200 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 21 52
It's a gay romance with supernatural/gothic horror elements... um... well... if you're really interested, feel free to read the current version (with pretty pictures).
So, you're qwriting Twilight fanfic then?
Um... no... the vampire is what we call the Bad Guy rather than the Romantic Interest...
45,045 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 22 01
Considering all the negative stuff in Twilight, I'm not entirely convinced that Edward was anything other than the Bad Guy anyway. Stalkery sparkly freak. *twitch*
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
19,941 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 23 21
Finally! Someone who agrees!
----------2009 Pre-Nano:The Magician (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 1): 65,008wds
2009 Nano: The Hanged Man (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 2): ????
72,671 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 06 50
Hey all.
This is my first Nano so I'm not going to venture too far out of my comfort zone just yet. My story is based within a pre established universe that I use for my online comic Terinu. Only this story will be text, of course, and deal with a different set of characters in a different time period.
My central character is a young nam named Evander Bostrum (Van), who has traveled to a frontier planet to work for his fathers multimillion dollar interplanetary shipping company, a successful business that is co owned by his fathers best friend. Although the prospect of becoming a shipping magnate does not exactly thrill Van he has never questioned his destiny.
But then he is comfronted by a 'gift' given to his father by one their clients. A slave ferin boy, a member of a child like race who are shunned on most civilised worlds as dangerous animals. This one has been bred and trained to entertain his owners in ways that interest Bostrum senior very much but would destroy the relationship between him and his business partner if his fetish secrets were to be made public.
Van is torn between loyalty to his father and his growing affection and concern for the young slave. Things are complicated when ulterior motives are revealed. Throw in a fiesty volunteer for a struggling ferin rescue group, a war wounded retired soldier come security guard and of course the cunning, socially extravagant villian of the story who will stop at nothing on his quest to buy out a planet.
I have about 1/3 of the story plotted out on yWriter. *crosses fingers that I can figure out the bones of the rest before Nov. 1
45,045 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 13 54
How to recognise me at NaNo events: mention Twilight and see who claps her hands over her ears and starts going 'LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU' XD
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
19,941 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 14 24
How to recognise me at NaNo events: mention Twilight and see who claps her hands over her ears and starts going 'LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU' XD
Ecxept I won't be able to see you, as when Twilight is mentioned I busrt into tears of rage. Still, nice to know you're there.
----------2009 Pre-Nano:The Magician (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 1): 65,008wds
2009 Nano: The Hanged Man (Sorcerer's Apprentice, Book 2): ????
45,045 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 14 42
You'll be able to hear me!
Matter of fact, you'll probably be able to hear me anyway. I have a tendency to get loud and excitable at NaNo stuff.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
79,254 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 15 41
How to recognise me at NaNo events: mention Twilight and see who claps her hands over her ears and starts going 'LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU' XD
Ecxept I won't be able to see you, as when Twilight is mentioned I busrt into tears of rage. Still, nice to know you're there.
16 minutes after Twilight tix went on sale, I made a Twihard cry. I felt so good.....
----------Shut up and LOVE it!