A thread to share what your MCs are currently up to and get pokes from others if you need your imagination shaken loose.
My three knights are presently holed up in a roadside inn with a cleric whose friend has missed a rendezvous by three days. It's raining heavily outside. There's rabbit pie for dinner. And I haven't managed to make anyone break a leg yet.
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“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
http://evilnovel.wordpress.com
http://worldsofmint.wordpress.com
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Nov 2, 2009 - 01 58
main character with his 6 bestest friends in the world and he's trying to control his infatuation with one of them and keep his mind on the task he was given.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 02 16
I'm lost. :)
----------Look to the Aozora
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Nov 2, 2009 - 03 08
Rain and Mina are on a train to the First Progenitor Assembly of Teihard de Chardin to investigage rumours of embezzlement, corruption and murder. The Assembly believes that one day we can all be reborn in a perfect world when AOM (the Alpha and Omega Machine) is built, and only the true believers will be reborn with godlike powers in this matrix, according to the prophet Telhard de Chardin and those who followed him.
The Assembly's first speaker is currently the spokesperson for the Progenitor movement in a theological dispute with the Regenitors, who believe that we have all already died and have been reborn in this matrix, and it is only when we die that AOM will award points. True believers end up in a state of eternal bliss, while nonbelievers will spend eternity being tortured.
Now, obviously this is a ridiculous scenario that has nothing to do with real life, and of course no real religion would schism so many times that you have about twenty mainstream denominations, including those with names like Worshippers of Deus Ex Machina and Noogenesis NOW! (both capital letters and the exclamation mark are part of the name.)
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Nov 2, 2009 - 04 12
IN THE PLACE OF FUNK.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 05 19
MC is washing her face atm... yeah...
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Nov 2, 2009 - 05 51
Just arrived at the work place and about to meet and ogle the love interest.
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow
46,507 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 55
My MC is in two places. At the beginning of the novel she's still on the plane arriving at Changi Airport. Near the end of the novel she's throwing up in the ladies room of a hotel in Kota Bharu.
So I write several at once. Sue me.
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 06 58
My MCs are in school, two of them are in the same classroom, sitting next to each other and dripping wet from the rain.
----------2008: Deviance - 50,009 words
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Nov 2, 2009 - 07 00
MC's trying to get to work but a bunch of crime reporters are blocking her way. HAH.
----------~ Joelyn Alexandra
joelyn.alexandra@gmail.com
http://joelynalexandra.wordpress.com
28,885 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 07 15
MC's busy trying to decide between sausages and eggs or pancakes for breakfast, cooked by nice fat old grandmother.
36,685 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 07 41
MC is outside her school now not really doing much other than staring.
----------Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 07 53
Describing the first city of the story in detail, haha.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 12 48
1356 Words Into Novel. 48,644 words more to go!!!
Yes i know im slow q_q I just finish my prologue for my story.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 17 28
gosh ive taken a backseat to my writing now, swamped with REALITY! sux sux...
my MC, a talking cat and a homeless bum (who are actually part of an alliance army on a mission, sent to break some spell) have just finished making fun of each other and are stealthing. :)
i have no idea what they're going to do next, although they might take the subway. in a magical way.
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~ 'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'
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Nov 2, 2009 - 21 25
I've just established the (impeccable) pedigree the MC will need, the ramifications involved, and we're about to start the story in five different places.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 21 56
My MC's in the tailor shop, altering some lycra costume.
----------Co-ML for Singapore
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Nov 2, 2009 - 22 11
On a plane.
Because flights from Singapore to London are so long.
----------QE2 + lomography + gaming + slacking + daydreaming = avariel
A strawberry is chasing me and my novel has no rationale!
50,217 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 22 31
Main character has met - with instinctive virulent dislike - the novel's bad guy. :P
jolantru
(quick, write, write, before baby wakes up)
13,187 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 00 17
Blatant character description. :)
Currently waxing poetic over my hero's
spandextightspants and thinking vaguely of basing him on that Tarzan dude from the Tiger Beer commercial. Mmmmm.52,808 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 01 37
MC #1 has spent the morning burying the remains of a half-eaten horse in a very muddy ditch. Don't ask.
----------“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”
http://evilnovel.wordpress.com
http://worldsofmint.wordpress.com
61,228 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 04 36
MC is hospital-bed-ridden and just broke news to her younger sister that their parents have been brutally murdered. O.O
----------In this world, there is no such thing as coincidence.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 05 08
My MC (and I) just found out that her boss/mentor person is a cyborg. She's about to join her crew on the Mary Sue, a giant airship that can change colors XD
----------Co-ML for Singapore
601 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 05 49
hello im starting from the ending, working my way backwards.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 06 35
My MC met the girl he is trying to find out more about (and eventually save from wallowing in her own fantasy world where she is beautiful, powerful and respected, in contrast to real life) in her fantasy world. (I'm gonna pretend that destiny just PLOPPED him there.) Now he's trying to suss out where he is and who the alternate fantasy girl is, because he doesn't know.
OMG this all sounds so epic fail. Eyeroll.
51,998 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 07 35
>this all sounds so epic fail. Eyeroll.
It depends on how you go about it. I know I tried something similar very recently. I figure it worked out fine.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 07 38
I already feel like scrapping my story and writing a brand new one...
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Nov 3, 2009 - 14 58
Well, my main villain just incacipitated the entire world except for my MCs, and my MCs are trying to chase him. Rather unsuccessfully.
46,507 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 20 20
It depends on how you go about it. I know I tried something similar very recently. I figure it worked out fine.
Oh now, don't be modest. It was published in Happiness at the End of the World ----------
Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
61,228 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 20 43
o.o wow i feel small... there're so many great writers here..
err... progress... MC is still in hospital talking a great deal of nonsense (to expand the word count) while the investigation for the murder is still ongoing...
----------In this world, there is no such thing as coincidence.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 23 22
I'm on chapter three right now.
Chapter title: Girl meets boy and cries all over him.
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow