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| Mamo | What to write about? |
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Oct 13, 2009 - 04 13
Ay thank you!!!!
I was going to post it somewhere else but you got it on time :D
I think my genre will be Erotica don't know the plot yet, OR, I might decide to write the second novel of my first finished one, but that needs a lot of plotting in advance....
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Oct 13, 2009 - 04 47
My first year of NaNo, I went for a fantasy setting and it worked great for me. If I manage to edit and revamp the last 40-50 pages or so like I want to and still have time to plan out the next steps in the novel, I might go with that idea.
Last year, I tried realistic fiction and that just failed >miserably<, so my second idea is to kind of stick with what I know and go for a futuristic, sci-fi setting ....And the great thing about those is that when you're stuck, you can always throw in an erotica scene to get your word count up (lol).
But, I'm definitely a plan-in-advance writer, so we'll see how the next few weeks decides my topic!
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Oct 13, 2009 - 06 15
Think this year'll be the back-story of a character from my other nano-novels. I have a title, which is something...although the rest of it is rather nebulous at the moment.
Genre - hodge-podge of crime and post-apocalyptica (That a word? It is now.) with a bit of satire thrown in just to make things even more messy.
I predict a mess....
45,313 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 08 02
Well, unlike most Wrimos I've spoken to, I can't seem to write fantasy in a month. My realistic fiction comes out better when I have time constraints like this one. So, continuing from last year, I have my second novel based in Dublin. The difference this time is the narrator being completely abstract, but maybe having emotional attachments to the protagonist, and that the protagonist, Sophie, is the opposite gender to me.
Anyone else doing sequels that aren't directly related to the first book? Like my one, with two different protagonists, but with connections between them?
34,500 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 05 14
I'm getting pretty pumped about this futuristic novel I've been thinking about, and my mind is running so quickly with the idea I'm already thinking of that I've already thought of other novels I can base off the same world that have nothing to do with my main character(s) from the first novel.
Too many ideas!!!
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Oct 14, 2009 - 05 49
I don't know how many times I have changed my mind already, and I am trying to force myself not to write!
At least, I have decided not to go for the sequel, but to write something new and fresh. I thought I needed a place where my 2 MCs could mess around, but not really sure.
So I am just reading and reading and reading and reading and...... how many days left to the 1st of November?
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Oct 14, 2009 - 12 13
Hmm...last year was a bust, so no historical fiction for me!
I think I'm going to finally start a vampire series I want to write. It'll be a mix of Darren Shan and Twilight - in a way. As in, slight bits taken from each, I think. I've had about 10 ideas this year, but I'm deciding tonight. Then plotting for the next two weeks. Oh, yay!
----------Cups of tea ingested: 37
Boxes of sushi eaten: 4
Bags of tuc crackers eaten: 1/4
Pasta salad eaten: too much
Fun had: a lot :D
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Oct 15, 2009 - 01 51
Mmm... I'm on a historical fiction trip this time out...
I think, in between a couple of pints last night, I decided on a diary type format, maybe letters aswell... Perhaps something like Cloud Atlas but not at all...
Basically, I've studied the area and period I'm writing for before for a Masters in International Relations so I'm pretty familiar and I've been to the area twice, so I'm hoping I've enough of a feel for it.
Anyway, tis only a sketch!
----------"The true traveller is without a goal. It is the absence of goals which create the ultimate traveller." - Soul Mountain, Xiao Gingjian
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Oct 19, 2009 - 04 29
Need to think about it a bit. First time doing it so no real idea of what genre will work out best for me.
Think it'll be something dark.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 13 07
Mine is realistic, modern day, fiction about a mother of two that has a nervous breakdown of sorts, linked to her past... and it moves to thriller further into the book...
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Nov 3, 2009 - 12 11
I'm writing a fantasy /sci-fi story featuring a host of characters including sentient dragons, pouched people (marsupians from an earlier story) some other aliens and a number of humans. It's a real fusion of genres with some crime and adventure also involved.
----------Ive set up the basic story lines as the sub plots intermesh more and more charcters will emerge as needed.
Mind your golf
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 19
I'm writing realistic fiction this year. I'm not great at it, but I try!
----------"If practice makes perfect, but nothing is perfect, then I'm just practicing for the hell of it. Right?"
2009: 'Two Strikes' - ..? (An unlikely win)