My story is a Native American narrative of my personal experience moving from Az back to South Dakota. It was an experience that was like out of "little house on the prarie," only a Native version.... and in the 21st century. However, the living conditions were like the 20th century.
New to nano, not sure if I can make the 50k, but will give it the old college girl try. Would like to find "writing buddies" to chat with, but not sure on how to do that. Will figure it out as I go, kinda like when I moved to SD with no job, nothing, lived off the land. But was the best experience of my life, so far. Hoping nano will top it when I get the book finished.
I would just like to hug whomever thought of nano. Waiting for midnight, I am so excited, I stayed up past the news. No more treaters knocking at the door. Just crazy waiting outside my mind.
Good luck to all and gosh, I hope this works.
Jean
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Jean Nakota
Writing is the breath of life! Native stories rock!
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Nov 1, 2009 - 00 45
Welcome to the EV region.
As far as your actual story, no clue if I can help with that - but as you said, I'd give the ol' college try.
Feel free to message me anytime. Try to push hard this first week and crank out 2k words a day if possible. The first week is comparatively the easiest; so if you have that feeling it's coming easy, don't ease up. Just as Puffy once pontificated about being "All about the Benjamins," NaNo is all about the quantity; so don't let quality get in your way: just as it certainly never did to Sean Combs.
If you want to bounce anything off me or ask for an idea, feel free to. I am not saying my ideas are usually so fantastic (or even make sense), but sometimes it can be enough to help someone come up with an even better idea. :)
Same goes for any of you reading this. Message me anytime - and my phone is open 24 hours.
----------"Bucket of criminy!"
-Tad Ghostal
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Nov 5, 2009 - 21 17
well, I started really well considering I had an idea of 24 chapters. But this last chapter I wrote, I find I'm kinda all over the place. What do you do to get the focus back?
Jean
----------Jean Nakota
Writing is the breath of life! Native stories rock!
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Nov 5, 2009 - 22 13
Well, it looks like you're off to an excellent start. I only know of one book with the Sioux in it, and that's Black Elk Speaks (a reading I had for one of my classes)
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Nov 6, 2009 - 06 24
Obviously I don't know a whole lot about your last chapter. But...
You may want to use a piece of paper (not computer) to jot down what was going on in that last chapter - at least what you recall rather than taking detailed notes. Then you can maybe make them as bullet points or a) b) c) etc. And then use those points to go to later on if you are stuck at a point where your cursor isn't moving. :)
If you were intending to tackle something in your last chapter but then it went crazy... Try to start up on it now: whatever your original point of the chapter was that went crazy. That way you can try to remedy whatever qualms you had by corralling the story, but you still have the option to return to any part of it later.
Sorry the reply is so late. I was certain I clicked "post" before going to sleep but... Seems I woke up and felt bad seeing a message box still active - very sorry.
Hopefully I helped a slight bit. Feel free to message me anytime if you want to bounce something off or whatnot - goes for anyone reading this. :)
----------"Bucket of criminy!"
-Tad Ghostal