I thought this worked very well last year. Definitely made me think about things a bit differently.
The deal is, you post a summary of your novel in NO MORE than 3 words, 10 words, and 30 words. It's kind of the opposite of Nano - quality over quantity. (Also, it's way easier to read short summaries than big long ones. Also also, this way they're all collected in one place. Also also also, beans.)
My novel is called: Nothing yet, since I haven't found a name that doesn't give it all away.
3 words: Timey wimey stuff.
10 words: A woman dreams about her life, and her past lives.
30 words: The MC (who is never named) relives major events in her dreams. Initially, they are major events from her own history; eventually, though, she's Marie Antoinette, Mrs Hitler, etc.
Yay, I still managed to keep the twist unmentioned. (And I slipped in a Doctor Who quote for good measure.)
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"My job, as a writer, is to explode."
- Neil Gaiman
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 02 10
LOL Jam. Also also also, BEANS.
Also also also also, damnit. I've forgotten what the twist is. Brb, asking Mel.
...Okay, I'm back and all caught up. Everyone, the twist is AWESOME.
Also x5, I'll write mine later. Haha.
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
50,534 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 02 45
3 words : Woman, Insane, Murder
----------10 words: abused housewife kills her husband and lots of other people
30 words: An abused housewife is driven to the edge and kills her husband. on the run she kills other men who are serisouly mistreating their wives. She dies at the end :(
Liquid Caffeine Consumption:
Drink-mix packets:
Chocolate bars:
Non Chocolatey Sugar Snacks:
Conversations with myself:
Colouring breaks:
Manic cleaning breaks:
Thoughts about quitting:
Spontaneous yoga sessions:
Plot Epiphanies:
Body Count
2,201 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 02 45
Title: Flowers for the Fallen
3 words: Twin brother dies
10 words: Teenager gains magical powers after twin brother dies.
30 words: Teenager has magical powers transferred to him from dying twin brother and tries to use them for good so his brother lives on.
I managed to keep my twist unmentioned too. :D
----------Cate
2009: Flowers for the Fallen
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 03 24
Title: The Edge of Sight
3 words: Smut. Orwellian smut.
10 words: A woman hunts rebels in a militaristic society plus smut.
30 words: Woman hunts a band of rebels determined to expose the society they live in for what it is until she is betrayed by the man she thought she loved. Smut.
I have at least two twists that would totally ruin my novel if I told you now. Seems like this is the year of twists.
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
61,644 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 05 16
Aww, my novel doesn't have a twist. It's very straightforward, actually. It is middle grade fiction after all.
Title: It's special enough not to have one yet :P
3 words: Kids find robot
10 words: Three kids find a futuristic robot and save the world
30 words: Three kids find a futuristic robot in a garbage dump and at the same time, kids are going missing and it’s up to the kids to expose a terrible plan
----------"Imagination is more important that knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
"It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words as any good environmentally conscious writer would do." ~ Uniek Swain
55,841 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 05 47
Okay, proper response time.
Title: Othermoon.
3 words: Reality versus Unreality.
10 words: Girl's life turns questionable after finding injured boy on beach.
30 words: The day her mother dies, Morgan finds Luc. When he disappears, he's written off as post traumatic stress. Morgan must look beyond reality to Othermoon to find him.
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
28,023 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 06 50
My novel is called: Thiefs tale (working title)
3 words: London eh wot
10 words: Mikelus, Hale, and Cosette are thieves in alternate reality london
30 words: On an earth where WW2 happened differently an ex-thief runs into trouble as his past, the local detective and his new protégé force him to return to his thieving ways
41,345 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 12 33
Interesting. Let me think and plan and plot ( and possibly over use a thesaurus so that my wordsare used as efficiently as possible) also, my story seems twistless, sort of. I just don't know how to write it in three words.
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
2,518 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 22 08
Title: Reign of the Super-Men
3 Words: Superpowered People Fight!
10 Words: Superpowered people fight over the fate of the world.
30 Words: Superpowered people emerge and join to defeat the villian who is on a quest for world domination. One of the good guys knows the villian. Others are tempted. Some fall.
That's if I continue on with last year's story. I've been in a short story mood of late, so may decide to do an anthology instead.
----------2007 - All That Can Never Be
2008 - Reign of the Super-Men: Book 1 - Origins - Winner!
2009 - Untitled
41,345 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 02 17
Okay so after some thinking, here is the idea I think I'm going to try and write (assuming I don't change my mind halfway through and try to start again from scratch)
Title: End Game
Genre: Science Fiction
Three Words: First intra-solar war
Ten Words: World ends, but war doesn’t, space people don’t like it
Thirty Words: The last world war kills the planet, and the leaders of both sides bring their war with them when they escape. Meanwhile the old space leaders try to force peace.
Okay, so no real twists to be seen there, and for those who are interested, I managed to get in under my word limits without looking through a thesuarus for obscure and forgotten words, if it wasn't already obvious.
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
2009: Dancing on a Dirk's Edge - see for yourself
8,050 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 04 42
My novel is called: F is for...
3 words: Actor seeks fame
10 words: failed actor seeks tv fame through crime. Eccentric Dictator reigns.
30 words: DAG tree-bored, eccentric leader, changes laws more often than underwear. Baltimore Blayne, failed actor turns to crime to make his tv debut. Persephone Price- news anchor struggles with censorship.
and yayy i too managed to keep my twist undisclosed.. the fact that it doesnt exist is entirely irrelevant... ok i just wanted to be included in the whole twist discussion...
----------do people ever think you're weird?
sure .. in a charming, endearing, lovable ... yeah.
44,511 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 05 24
My novel is "Chaos and Other Theories"
3 words: Hermit has dreams.
10 words: Hermit is visited by mysterious being, may not actually exist.
30 words: A young hermit who remembers dreams better than reality is visited by a mysterious being who fully understand time and chaos theory. She disappears, he sets out to find her.
----------ΩPR!
2008: 'We, the Disappeared' - Win
2009: 'Chaos and Other Theories" - Promising
1,253 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2009 - 05 18
Title: Bored Games (working title)
3 words – twisted chess game
10 words – Girl attempts to outrun a vendetta using board game tactics.
30 words – Girls life is endangered when a series of unprompted attacks on her begins. As the attacks get worse, she realises that there is more to them than she first thought.
76,045 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2009 - 21 42
Ohh! So many to read about! They sound interesting!
@Mr Heywire: I like the dream thing and the title is awesome. Makes me want to read it right now.
@EccentricEmily: I have a thing about using board game tactics as part of my novels (although most times it hasn't meshed properly with the novel) whether as something the characters do or chapter titles and whatnot. I'll be interesting to hear how yours goes. :)
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
44,511 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 01 11
@Calliopes.Sin: Thanks! Hopefully it'll come out as interesting as it's looking.
----------ΩPR!
2008: 'We, the Disappeared' - Win
2009: 'Chaos and Other Theories" - Promising
40,200 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 05 58
My novel is called : My less then working title is "Supernatural Town" To be changed when I come up with something more original.
3 Words : Town. Vampire. Human.
10 Words : Boy's family dies in a supernaturally filled town. He's upset.
30 Words : The last safe haven of the supernatural is a remote town. A young man's family stumbles across it and they are divvied up among the populace as food and amusement.
21,656 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 04 24
My novel is called: At this point, I'm calling it "Dream Road"
3 words: Guy drives car.
10 words: Teenager suffers coma and explores a realm in his mind.
30 words: The MC has a car accident and falls into a coma, within the deep recesses of his mind he explores a strange land of living cars linked telepathically with humans.
Just decided I'm doing Nano (for the first time) 3 days ago, and this is the very quick result of me coming up with a plotline.
----------Hopefully I can flesh this out a bit better as that's about the gist of all I have right now
"Though our love, metal is warmer still, lest our blindness shroud their true nature"
Mercy Is Humble,
Love Is Evermore,
Truth Is Absolute...
"Dream Road" - Nano 09
45,219 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 18 39
Novel Title: Three Bells [working title]
3 words: Sea Myths Real
10 words: Woman finds her connection to the sea is still strong.
30 words: There's been a long history in Hackettsville of shipwrecks. Now, the lost ships and crew are sailing into harbor, but why? One woman's connection with the sea holds the answer...
Eh, give it 11 days and it will probably be completely different.
41,530 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2009 - 03 49
Three Words: Several different lives
Ten Words: Short stories over a day about several people's lives
Thirty Words: Short stories over a day about several people's lives hopefully interweaving and connecting at some point...
I will probably change the plot completely tomorrow and the day after... Also I planned out my story then lost the plan... I have since made and plan to lose another... A great beginning!
I wish I could fit a Doctor Who reference into mine... Maybe I should switch genres...
27,106 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 18 06
This looks fun.
My novel is called: Hajime's Story (Hajime Monogatari)
3 words: Boy becomes samurai
10 words: A weak boy overcomes his shortcomings - with hard samurai training!
30 words: A coming-of-age story about a boy who learns to stand up on his own, relying only on his own ability. There are sword fights, and magic, against a Japanese-style setting.
45,038 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 19 06
Title: Butterfly
3 words: fairy bitch fight
10 words: Girl and boy work to fight manipulation from fairy heir
30 words: Girl is raised in the fairy realm. She is manipulated by her half-sister and becomes sick of it. She secretly works with accomplice to break half-sister’s control of the realm
----------34,194 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 04 59
Hmmm. Well, if I go with a prequel...
Title: Make the Time (working title)
Three words: Inconvenient time travel
(Or, Timey Wimey Stuff.)
Ten words: Time traveller reminisces about his life, long before he's born.
Thirty words: The MC is on his first assignment, to train a girl in the early 1900s. He sees her, with her close-knit family, and starts thinking about his own lonely life.
More info in my profile.
----------2004: 16,500; 2005: 5,000; 2006: 20,000; 2007: 7,500; 2008: 60,543
2009: ???
2010: Profit!
13,404 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 04 00
Novel Title: Emblem: Part 3
(and no, I haven't written a part 1 or 2.)
3 words: Amnesic finds friends
10 words: Guy loses memory, must find friends to get it back
30 words: A young man loses his memory after being dumped in a pub. Confused, he must go through multiple worlds to find his friends with some help from two earth teenagers.
Also, two major twists. >_>
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