| AC Violeteye | Any problems so far? |
    39,753 / 50,000 Joined: Oct 4, 2006
Location: Cheney, WA Posts:
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I decided to change stories today, after about a week of dithering. Anyone else around here running into difficulties with your story, nitpicky plot stuff, or anything else? |
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42,100 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 12 47
LOL. That is normal. I think last year I ended up with two stories because I couldn't decide which I liked better. It gave me options when I got bored or stuck with the current one. There's nothing in the rules that says you can't switch directions halfway through November - just that you can't delete anything you've already written!
I'm still trying to decide if I want to go ahead with my current idea (listed on my Novel info page) or change to an undersea posh hotel murder and sabotage. I got that idea from the new, extravagant undersea hotel in the Fiji Islands, called the Poseidan Undersea Resorts. Take a look. It's crazy expensive but a wonderful place to set a story.
----------Dana
"This is a lot more fun when they're not shooting back!"
Spokane, WA - Municipal Liaison
52,555 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 13 32
Do non-noveling problems count? I just had the pleasure of calling a plumber in to fix a broken pipe at time-and-a-half Sunday rates. I'd much rather be working on my novel, believe me.
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Samantha
Spokane, WA - Municipal Liaison (2003-2009)
Age Group: 50-Plus - Moderator
42,100 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 14 01
Oh my gosh... and on top of everything else. I totally think that counts. =(
----------Dana
"This is a lot more fun when they're not shooting back!"
Spokane, WA - Municipal Liaison
6,133 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 18 10
You mean other than having no idea what I'm going to write yet??
----------Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov
13,257 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 19 25
I just can't decide whether I want to write a very "in" teenage paranormal type novel, an edgy post apocalyptic fantasy, or go for the chick lit book I've been working out in my head all year.
4,513 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 19 44
missesmerelda, as much as i hate chick lit, do that one, a story thats been in your head forever will become a roadblock later.
----------24,412 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 07 05
Beloved #1 son will not quit playing with my computer - this means that my internet has been nerve wrackingly jacked up for most of the week and for a coupleof days my computer wouldn't boot up at all because he had somehow gotten what looks like a foam rubber casket stuck into my disk drive - which brings me to the song I sing every year
GO BUY JUMP DRIVE NOW
BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP
As a person who has replaced a computer just about once a year since starting NaNoWriMo you need to have back ups to your back ups particularly since you WILL unleash your inner editor on Dec 1st and decide all the fixes you made are complete crap on December 2nd...trust me on this!
----------SWIMMING TO COLORADO 2008
INCOHERENT FEET 2007 (won)
MORONIC HANDS 2006 (won)
RUDE HAIR 2005 (won)
42,212 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 16 36
Storys going pretty well so far, nothing amazing or anything yet, the only problem Im having is this blasted hang over from Halloween. >.< Really should have left the rum alone. Tee hee ^^
21,819 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 58
Well I did have a problem. Up until two hours ago I had no idea what to write about so I spent the first day of NaNo trying to figure that out. After talking to one of my best friends, Cristine, she helped me figure out a story so now I have a basis to go on. I'm excited. I'm gonna try to meet the daily quota before I go to bed. I don't want to be behind on the first day.
Oh, I do have another problem. How to balance college and NaNo.
----------“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”---Denis Waitley
17,050 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 27
Hehe, I have that same college-NaNo problem.
So, I started writing today, decent paragraph and then went...crap! this isn't going at all as planned...And at the end of the day, I am thinking "what can I write that would go better, this dosn't seem right" while looking at homework written from Luis XIV..I'm thinking that might be a problem...Though Ani Difranco is trying to inspire my brain to jumpstart!
----------"It is wise to listen to everyone, and [yet] not to believe entirely [any of] those around us, except for the good that they are compelled to admit in their enemies and for the bad that they try to excuse in their friends; still wiser is it to test for on
21,819 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 52
What college do you go to?
Oh, I know how that is. I've got two paragraphs and its not how I imagined it. I do more roleplaying than I do novel writing and my roleplay stuff is better than my novel stuff! Kinda irks me. Oh well. It just has to be a rough draft.
Ani Difranco. That name sounds familiar.
----------“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”---Denis Waitley
39,486 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 21 17
Going better then I though, my goal today was 3000 words, and I am currently at 3700. So my first day is pretty promising. The story though, well I am making it up as I go. I learn with my protaganist. The only difference is I know where it is going, its just how we get there that is the mystery