I am writing total crap. I just re-read my last paragraph, it made my skin crawl!
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| Lynne16 | Eeuw! |
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I am writing total crap. I just re-read my last paragraph, it made my skin crawl! |
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14,839 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 21
Thats ok- I just read my last 6000 words; sighed and thought- ah well, as long as I get tpo 50000 words I can always just delete this and pretend it never happened...
38,682 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 29
I haven't even DARED to really look back at the crap I'm writing.
I'm totally following the whole stretching forward and leaving the past behind me philosophy.
It's Biblical after all :-P
----------If you want your life to have impact, focus it.
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40,739 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 39
"If your writing doesn't nauseate you, you aren't doing it fast enough"
----------David Seven
"The Magnificent Seven"
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113,989 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 40
I use that term for what I've written...I have a vivid imagination :D
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39,407 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 46
Words are important and so far I haven't totally hated any of mine. Perhaps the odd "the" or "a" but that's it.
"Words aren't worth having if they're not mangled and ugly."
40,042 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 25
I'm refusing to let my internal editor say "I told you so" by reading any of the "snert" I'm currently spouting.
----------When in doubt, blog
When not, get some doubts
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34,039 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 51
Ok now I'm worried....I'm rereading my stuff periodically, and I dont think its *that* bad lol is this normal??!
I do think some sections will need to be shortened....almost two pages on a day at the beach....wow.
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62,351 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 54
Pay heed to D7 - he's cranked up 3 000 words today, so he must be right!
The trick is to not look back. Make like those characters in the Pixar movies - just run and run while the volcano blows up and the swing bridge disintegrates behind you!
----------Deirdre
40,739 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 46
Yeah, I could have written more, but it was already making me nauseaus as it was. :-)
"Keep moving forward" - Meet the Robinsons
----------"Just keep swimming" - Finding Nemo
"To infinity, and beyond" - Toy Story
"The Magnificent Seven"
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113,989 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 42
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we have gone through this before but you have disobeyed a direct order and now suffer the consequences.
Kill it Quick
----------I'll give you one more chance to redeem yourself
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Don't let common sense stop you....
Instant Human - Just Add Coffee
25,616 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 47
my only /real/ problem with mine is: "it's too slow."
so far, there's a lot of interesting stuff happening, but it's all kind of exposition-ey. and i'm not liking the glacial speed at which it's going from exposition to story.
ah well. that's why it's a first draft. keep moving until 50,000 and then revise, later.
50,162 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 23 17
Lol, my characters just decided to make themselves a steampunk cow to travel to the moon in, trust me, its supposed to be ewy. If you're still not convinced, read here => http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/11/writing-first-draft.html
This is the blog of an actual literary agent. She makes some excellent points about first drafts.
43,095 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 23 18
A couple of months ago I tried to reread my 2008 story. I made a start but soon gave up reading it. I toyed with the idea of deleting it, but decided that it had some good aspects to it amongst the crap, so instead I've zipped it with a password which means that no one else will ever get to read it.
40,042 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 00 41
"Move, sloth! " - Ice Age 1
"Buck: Are you ready for adventure?
Crash, Eddie: Yes, sir!
Buck: For danger?
Crash, Eddie: Yes, sir!
Buck: For death?
Eddie: Uhh, can you repeat the question?" - Ice Age 3
"Its real alright, and its comin fast. I mean look around, youre sittin in a bowl, The bowls gonna fill up, and no way out. Unless you can make it to the end of the valley. Theres a boat, it can save you." - Ice Age 2
----------When in doubt, blog
When not, get some doubts
http://www.timtang.com
http://cate-in-a-hat.xanga.com
48,014 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 04 04
Easy to say bra when you 25 thou to your name! But I humbly accept my last chance to redeem myself....and I'll work on keep my common sense under control.
113,989 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 04 36
Common sense doesn't mean diddly when writing...it's called fiction for a reason.
What you think Jurassic Park started off as a dinosaur extravaganza when they first sat down to write or that Alice would talk to rabbits?
The story takes you where you meant to be and while crack cocaine is now illegal, the intoxicating imagination it instilled is most definitely allowed and asked for. If your mc is starting to see floating elephants then that is brilliant...you're either writing about him drugged and drunk, alien invasions, thrillers of the mind....just because it aint making sense right now doesn't mean you're writing toffee..it means you've got the start of something extraordinary
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Don't let common sense stop you....
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29,736 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 40
Good to know I'm not alone in writing rubbish. This is a new feeling for me. I have banished my internal editor and refuse to dwell on how bad it is. All I know is that if I get it finished it will be the first time I have finished a novel, which is so much better than a few well polished chapters.
42,414 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 48
I will not go back and read what I have written.
I will not go back and read what I have written.
I will not go back and read what I have written.
Or at the very least, if I do go back read what I have written, I will try my damndest to ignore my IE and just get on with the job.
-sighs-
113,989 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 58
I will not go back and read what I have written.
I will not go back and read what I have written.
Or at the very least, if I do go back read what I have written, I will try my damndest to ignore my IE and just get on with the job.
-sighs-
If you going back to read what you've written make sure you add in a paragraph or two to each paragraph you read. It's called punishment for cheating your heart
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Don't let common sense stop you....
Instant Human - Just Add Coffee
40,029 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 01
I have placed mine in a crate and sent it off to No Man's Land on Horse Back. Hopefully she'll fall off and land under the horse's hooves, hehehe. I can hope, right? Goodbye internal editor...
----------Bonster
Johannesburg
Gauteng
"There's ink under my skin, and words on my tongue."
42,414 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 02
Too late... How do you think I found the worst line I've written so far?
-twiddle-
And that's a lot of work. What the hell kind of sadist are you? Aren't I masochist enough that I'm attempting this again? After two other failed attempts?
42,414 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 03
I want my IE back at the end of November though.... Especially after the crap I've written in the past two days....
40,029 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 29
Oh shucks forgot about needing her afterwards. Oh well, will have to go and get her back then, hopefully the trip will inspire another novel, after nano,
----------Bonster
Johannesburg
Gauteng
"There's ink under my skin, and words on my tongue."
39,407 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 32
Well the obvious solution is that you just don't edit at the end of nano.
Your novel just needs to be good enough to go direct to print.
113,989 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 33
And that's a lot of work. What the hell kind of sadist are you? Aren't I masochist enough that I'm attempting this again? After two other failed attempts?
What's your address...I'm personally gonna come kick your bum over that finish line
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Don't let common sense stop you....
Instant Human - Just Add Coffee
42,414 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 36
Haha! I'd like to see you try!!!!
I'm pretty slippery for a workaholic accountant ;-)
You can't kill us easily, remember?
:-P
39,407 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 41
We should totally have a 30 day write-in for nano one year... Run like an army base.
Just imagine Bra all red in the face.
"Where are you from Nanoboy?"
"Sir, Grahamstown sir!"
"Only two things come from Grahamstown! Award winning novelists and tabloid journalists! And you don't look like no author to me! Drop and give me 20,000 words!"
42,414 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 48
Just imagine Bra all red in the face.
"Where are you from Nanoboy?"
"Sir, Grahamstown sir!"
"Only two things come from Grahamstown! Award winning novelists and tabloid journalists! And you don't look like no author to me! Drop and give me 20,000 words!"
And semi-occasionally work-a-holic accountants.
Ok... So I was only in Grahamstown for a year... but still...
-twiddle-
38,682 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 41
Boy whose name starts with underwear definitely is doing the drill sargeant thing this year.
*Pities TK who's probably getting the brunt of it* ;)
----------If you want your life to have impact, focus it.
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113,989 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 09 23
*Pities TK who's probably getting the brunt of it* ;)
She's doing well :D So my energies are turned outwards
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Don't let common sense stop you....
Instant Human - Just Add Coffee