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What's Happening In Your Novel Right Now? Part II |
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Nov 7, 2009 - 06 24 |
That's right folksies! Part II!!! I'm reviving a fairly fun thread that I started back in 2007. All you gotta say is what is happening in your novel. Sometimes it helps to explain it to someone else. Right now my MMCs are both thinking the same sorts of thoughts about a situation, but are too stubborn to admit it to one another. ---------- |
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28,590 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 39
I'm in.
Right now my 11 year old MC just retrieved a relic he needs off a fire god idol in a Head Hunter's camp, turned to show it to his Big Foot side kick and discovered that the head hunter's leader is standing there pointing a spear at his throat.
And I'm really not sure what will happen next, so, uh, if anyone has some ideas... :-)
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58,018 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 41
Well, my FMC just got herself out of a sticky situation by killing two of her kidnappers and re-animating their corpses to use against their allies.
My MMC didn't even notice she was kidnapped, so she's gonna be a little peeved about that.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 06 45
Right now my 11 year old MC just retrieved a relic he needs off a fire god idol in a Head Hunter's camp, turned to show it to his Big Foot side kick and discovered that the head hunter's leader is standing there pointing a spear at his throat.
And I'm really not sure what will happen next, so, uh, if anyone has some ideas... :-)
A shower of frogs from the sky certainly wouldn't be remiss in a setting like that. :)
----------My dragons - go looky!
06-Tremble - 62K
07-Breathe - 50K
08-Dead for a Day -51K
09-Breaking Forwards -50K+
53,026 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 45
My MMC didn't even notice she was kidnapped, so she's gonna be a little peeved about that.
Woah!!!
----------My dragons - go looky!
06-Tremble - 62K
07-Breathe - 50K
08-Dead for a Day -51K
09-Breaking Forwards -50K+
15,402 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 48
Right now a hardened PI and a bumbling archeologist are in a Chicago crypt wondering why the hell there's Hieroglyphics all over the place. Next they're going to get some mafia help and break into a university library to steal some textbooks. It's all good though, because they're saving the world from a millenia-old cosmic horror who's just days away from breaking through the walls to our world and turning it into a sucking void for all eternity.
...
So Yeah.
50,867 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 06 51
My MMC has just been sold into slavery by BadGuy1 to BadGuy2 (oh yeah, two bad guys, cos I'm that cool :D) and is just arriving at BG2's palace.
That's only what's happening now, but FMC is about to make her entrance.
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32,087 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 06
Well, my MCs have just jumped off a bridge.
Seriously.
They did to avoid getting eaten by a massive horde of zombies. Of course, they landed in a conveniently placed canal at the bottom, so they all survived and were rescued by a nice old man in a conveniently placed canal barge. His granddaughter is now giving the FMCs dry clothes.
----------2,711 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 14
My MMC just caught her crush/best guy friend making out with the snob of the school and now she's crying into her pillow. Soon the snob us going to find out that my MMC has crush on my BGF and the snob is going to spread a nasty rumor around the school about her.
12,200 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 26
My 16 year old FMC are looking for her twinsister who have been missing since lunchtime. She's on her way home now, and is really sad because she couldn't find her. Her mom has just called the police, and when Cristel - my FMC - gets back she's going to be asked an awfull lot of questions by the police.
----------# of Hot chocolates: 7
# of Mysterious deaths: 1
# of Characters: 10
38,489 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 26
My Archangel is interrogating my MMC about his involvement in the terrorist attack on the first level of heaven.
----------51,607 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 38
My FMC is at the MMC's house to tell him something, but she's distracted by the fact that he just walked out of the shower and is wearing nothing but a towel.
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2008 word count: 50,590
2007 word count: 11,659
35,677 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 40
I'm about to go into an explanation about the rest of my MCs summer, how they bond and how my FMC gets ready for her first day of real school.
----------"-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
-What mood is that?
-Last-minute panic.”- Calvin & Hobbes
30,125 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 07 45
Wilfred, the horrible husband, is about to rush into the bed-chamber where he will discover his wife has given birth to a monstrosity. Losing patience with her inability to provide him an heir, he will annul their marriage and abandon her in a nunnery. (He's a typical sensitive 14th century guy.)
----------Lonie Polony :-)
53,969 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 26
My main characters have just escaped from a zombie attack brought upon by a teenage girl who they rescued, thinking she was in trouble and about to get eaten from the zombies. Now they've got her in front of them willingly and are debaing over whether shooting her would be the right decision. P:
2,550 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 28
My MC just kicked himself right out of his emo mood. I'm so proud of him. I think I can actually continue writing now!
----------2008: Cadenza, Gay Lit/Romance, 65k
2009: Untitled Fantasy/Adventure
32,142 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 33
Well, my MC will give into the craving and will phone up a certain someone who put a certain telephone number into her hand. Then, that certain someone will lead her to a certain place with certain forbidden things inside. And they are going to gleefully eat their certain butts off.
Sorry, but I cannot reveal names, places, or what the forbidden thing is...because it's forbidden and they shouldn't be doing this certain thing in the first place!
----------53,026 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 44
What kinda monstrosity?
*peers at Lonie Polony interestedly*
----------My dragons - go looky!
06-Tremble - 62K
07-Breathe - 50K
08-Dead for a Day -51K
09-Breaking Forwards -50K+
51,426 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 55
One of the mythos-based characters was caught en flagrante with one of my male Grigori characters. And the Grigori was on the *bottom*, which was a shock to me, since said Grigori is an uber-Alpha male type.
33,831 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 56
My FMC just had sex with one of her love interests.
The one I'm probably going to kill in 10,000 words or so.
I feel bad.
30,432 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 58
My MC is about to learn that the job she took on to 'help out' her single dad in paying the bills is now quite important because he got fired and, in this economy, good freaking luck finding a job! The dough she brings home (about $340 per paycheck, $680 for the month) will be the only thing paying their rent ($600) and everything else. And she thought it was tight before when the cupboards were bare and she had nothing to bring in for lunch...
----------nano 2oo8 - The Blues - 20,000/50,000 {lost : (}
nano 2oo9 - untitled - {here we go...}
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"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."- Brenda Ueland
28,023 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 10 09
My MC has just panicked that the knock on his door was the cops coming to arrest him for his involvement in the death of a pickpocket. (Hm, Death of a Pickpocket sounds like an MC Beaton novel...)
----------Anyway, it's not the cops. It's his drug dealer, come to introduce him to a new, exciting and dangerous drug.
2009: [untitled]
2008: [untitled]
20,043 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 10 09
Right now, on my reality series, all of the characters are waiting for their cues. And my first MC is pretending to call her 'boyfriend' who has stood her up tonight. Something tells me that she's going to disobey my wish for her to forge ahead with her showmance and meet someone a lot more interesting instead. My second MC is remaining silent and refuses to be written. I hate them both at the moment.
----------52,129 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 10 10
Right now the character, Victoria, is having a flashback to her past almost 500 years ago. She's recalling the time she found her fiance now married to her sister, after she returns from having disappeared one night 5 years earlier. Of course she is upset to find this. This flashback is giving insight on the last time she cared about someone, and why she is so bitter about what happened to her.
----------33,389 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 10 41
One of my characters decided to go look for a box but I have no idea what's in the box. I wish he would tell me.
----------108,552 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 10 49
My MMC is contemplating if the World is insane! Not the people in it, but as in the physical Earth herself. Hmm, maybe he himself is the crazy one!
40,021 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 11 36
My main character, Buffy, is talking to a male friend of hers, Iba, who thinks she's going to get mad at him because he's meeting up with her brother and his best friend for drinks because Buffy's rather pissed off at said brother and friend/Buffy's love interest because of something they did. They saved her life, but she's not to happy with how they did it.
----------What are these strange, coherent thoughts flitting around in my head? Is that a plot I sense?! Nah, can't be...
23,895 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 08
My MC, Kaori Tamaya, is being introduced to the amazing plot device.
100,700 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 13
My MC has just announced that he will infiltrate the enemy camp, alone, to find out where they got this new metal from which they make their extremely leathal weapons (Roman-like fantasy setting getting introduced to the wonderful stuff called 'iron') and take out their forges.
His best friend actually thinks this is a good idea.
...I swear this makes more sense in context!
----------2008: Res Arcana (50k - win)
2009: Shards of Ourselves (63k+) / The Gatekeeper (33k and counting)
65,132 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 17
My two main characters are discussing plans. It's very exciting. (Not.)
----------When you don't know what to write next, drink a glass of water!
47,624 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 22
MMC Liederic has just arrived in Canterbury with bishop Augustin.They are about to enter the Hall of king Aethelbert and queen Bertha. Augustin gives Liederic a box, and tells him to give it to the queen. In the box is an ornate cloak pin and a red woolen cloak. Liederic thinks is it just a pretty present for the queen, but there is more to it than that...
----------2008: Lapis Lazuli (historical fiction) - WON! (57K)
2009: Vicit Vim Virtus (historical fiction)