| RingoWolf76 | NaNo Naysayer |
    18,012 / 50,000 Joined: Nov 4, 2009
Location: Kenner, La Posts:
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Nov 5, 2009 - 10 07 |
Everyone that I tell that I'm doing NaNoWriMo has been very supportive. Some are encouraging, some tease to egg on, most are in aw checking in my office to see the new daily word count. Everyone that is except one...That person just told that I'm wasting my time for nothing and that if this is one of those things I want to accomplise durring my life I must be a very, very boring person. I think I'm going to have run her over with a street car now. ;-) ---------- |
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50,871 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 10 27
I hope you will not listen to the naysayer. (Sometimes we hear 10 comments, 9 of them positive & we focus on the one that is not)--this is a daring and brave and wonderful thing you're doing. Boring? How many novels has this person written? What's that? NONE?
I don't know if this is your first novel or not, but I wrote my first for NaNo last year and when I typed "The End: I was just overcome. It was one of the happiest moments of my life. I don't care if I never get published (though I would certainly like to)--the joy of having written a novel will always be with me.
Don't run over her with a streetcar. We need you on the outside, free and amassing those words. And don't listen to her either. You just write your little heart out and the satisfaction will be all yours in the end. Good luck to you!
18,012 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 10 39
well I wasn't meaning *actually* run her over, my hero resides on Camp street, near the CBD, the St. Charles line is just a block over.
31,349 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 11 42
There will alway be people more interested in tearing down your dreams than building thier own.
I have found the best thing to do is treat them like any other pathetic pest, ignoring till you can't then swat'em with a rolled up new paper till they quit buzzing in your face (methaphoricaly of course)
55,034 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 11 54
Write her in your novel, then have her run over by the street car. I'll make sure to write the cheer crowd who applauds your arrival at the unfortunate scene. (kidding)
Just remember:
1. That person is not pouring themselves on to paper with a deadline looming over them.
2. That you enjoy writing or you would not be here.
3. It's your life not theirs.
4. Sometimes you just need and artistic outlet.
and
5. Don't listen to anyone who tries to hold you back. My guess is they are compensating because they are holding themselves back from something they wanted, but listened to other people. J.K. Rowlings was on welfare and had numerous rejections before she finally published. (I bet you SHE'S glad she didn't listen to anyone but herself.)
Final thought for the day:
Q: How do you eat an elephant?
A: One bite at a time.
Q: How do you write a novel?
A: One word at at time.
Good luck and good writing.
45,139 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 16
I say go with the catharsis of hitting her with something big in your novel. (Me, I'm fond of sudden, unexpected plane crashes) Have her get hit just as you have her saying those fateful words. Just change her name before you send it to a publisher.