I was poking around the Horror genre forums and I came across this thread: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3392471, which I thought would be pretty fun to bring over to the regional forums.
You basically post a line you wrote today; it can be any line, for whatever reasons- it's funny, it's a pivotal line for plot development, it should you a side of your character you didn't know- anything goes!
For me:
' "Mathematical Demonology will save your life one day," the lecturer had promised, and I don't see why not. '
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52,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 16
Cortana Rain speaking:
"I doubt if even my cynicism is sufficient to replicate reality.”
----------40,420 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 17
"If it bleeds, it leads." (Frankel & Bollier, 1999, 30)
----------~ Joelyn Alexandra
joelyn.alexandra@gmail.com
http://joelynalexandra.wordpress.com
61,228 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 13
A smiler for bald people ;D "God made perfect heads. Those that were not, he covered with hair." -random line from i-forgot-where-
----------In this world, there is no such thing as coincidence.
6,956 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 09 03
This is mostly because They don't really want you poking around and discovering too much about the Ends of the World.
40,035 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 16 10
Mine is:
"999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999"
And it goes on for six and a half pages and is considered one word because it has no space break (thankfully!).
I fell asleep on my eeepc.
----------Co-ML for Singapore
52,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 08
Mina hated writing reports, especially the weeklies. They required putting words through a wringer till they ended up looking nothing like the way a sentence should look, a crime against nature and good grammar perpetuated by the need to mollify middle management who had no idea what had actually happened on the street.
__________
I know, technically two lines.
----------40,253 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 11
As Iab reached the giant pot’s wedge-shaped bunghole, the ache in her calves was gone.
Hmm. Maybe I should try not writing at Starbucks today.
52,000 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 16 14
Cortana Rain, on how it is that he got a reservation at one of the most exclusive restaurants in town:
----------“I know the chef. I sorted something for him out once, and I know that one of his reservations is no such thing, since he just leaves it empty in case someone really important wants a last-minute reservation or walks in. He calls it his Godot table.”
42,007 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 20 59
Jack telling my MC how MJ's death caused widespread chaos in Informata, where the Internet and social networking are geography:
"The Phail Whales needed our help urgently at the time; there had been a massive landslide on Twitter, and it trapped a nursery pod in some underwater caves. Not to mention all the injured Twitter birds on the island itself."
Phail Whales are also called Fail Whales, if you're familiar with Twitter. I just think this spelling looks nicer. (:
----------Co-ML for Singapore
52,808 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 21 03
So my three knights are approaching a town, the capital of the province they're in. And they go in by the least-used gate, which opens onto the slums, and find out why it's the least used.
"The mud was deep as that on the road and a good deal fouler, being infused with sewage, made chunky with garbage and decorated with the occasional shiny, malodorous dead dog."
----------“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
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7,047 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 22 35
One of my MCs just punched someone in the face so hard that his brain came off. I think this no plot thing is starting to really work for me.
59,887 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 23 45
“I’m a monster…I go crazy when I’m angry and kill everything. I…I should leave the tribe for good, maybe go somewhere I can’t hurt any of you.”
*corny*
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50,197 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 03 05
I'm nowhere near halfway through today's catchup writing spree, but I think I already have a winner.
"But it didn’t matter, because we had sushi."
----------2008: Deviance - 50,009 words
23,895 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 05 01
"But it didn’t matter, because we had sushi."
Now that's my kind of line ;)
13,187 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 06 58
"But it didn’t matter, because we had sushi."
Win.
52,000 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 08 27
Mina Teller:
“Buy me a drink, Cortana Rain. Buy me half a dozen, and then dance with me until I don’t want to get up tomorrow.”
----------52,808 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 18 27
“Can I quit being a knight right now?”
----------“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
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13,187 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 18 39
"Could be worse," she sighed. "Could be raining."
40,145 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 04 04
“Buy me a drink, Cortana Rain. Buy me half a dozen, and then dance with me until I don’t want to get up tomorrow.”
Been there, done that.
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
59,887 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 04 14
"I guess I shall have to do this the hard way.” If anyone wonders why there's a dip in my word count I decided to remove the X-rated scenes in the novel. My brain is hurting now.
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23,895 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 15 53
“What's TV!!? You mean you do not know what's TV? Man, you are a sad poor little thing.”
52,000 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 00
The man had been about to raise a complaint, before he’d looked more closely at Rain, then at the pile of shooters he’d gone through like a sixteen-pound ball through tenpins, and shut his mouth.
----------13,187 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 22 57
"Um, is it supposed to be doing that?"
52,808 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 01 00
“Even if they eat babies, where do the babies come from? Assuming they actually farm pregnant women, the breeders have to eat too—” *WHACK*
My MCs have agreed to disagree.
----------“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
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30,809 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 07 29
MC, a maid, begging for forgiveness and did this instead.
Her eyes flooded over with the tears she had been holding back, tugging slightly on her mistress' robe but that was the wrong move, very wrong, for apparently the Goddess' other servant had not tied the robe properly and it fell apart the satin flowing down her body and pooling around her legs with the fluidity of fresh glorious milk , revealing the glowing, perfectly rounded body of her Goddess. The Lunar Goddess' mouth opened slightly in surprise and from the shock of cold air from sudden exposure to the elements.
----------30,461 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 09 40
Several lines, but that's okay- it's for CONTEXT.
Fire extinguisher- check. There was no explicit warning in our lease about unleashing demons from another dimensional into our apartment, but there was a large clause warning us about fire hazards and lecturing us about fire safety and the horrors of a cashed-in security deposit if we were found guilty of fire negligence and setting the whole place on fire. That's why I made sure the fire extinguisher was within an arm's length of reaching distance. Besides, in a pinch, I could use it to bash someone's- or something's- head (or whatever vital organ, if it even has one) in.
30,307 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 09 46
I think the phrase "The strawberry is chasing me." is my new favourite phrase. Along with "this art work has no rationale".
MC has just visited an art gallery.
----------QE2 + lomography + gaming + slacking + daydreaming = avariel
A strawberry is chasing me and my novel has no rationale!
52,000 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 21
Mina Teller:
“The case is considered closed. He decided to kill a pair of Ultras for their implants for back engineering down in UnderCity, you took his head off. Case closed and sealed and by the way the casket at the funeral will be too.”
----------44,020 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 00 28
"PERVERT FROG!"
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow
52,808 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 03 12
“The missing people all packed up and ran away. Which we ought to do too."
----------“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
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