Hello, fellow SFFMuse denizens and other interested nanowrimoers! :)
This is a thread for people from SFFMuse, which is a writing community for speculative fiction (i.e. sci-fi, fantasy, horror), although we also have boards for other types of writing and creative pursuits (poetry, academia, artwork, music, etc). (Really, we'll talk about anything. ;) ) We also have a chat channel on the same server as nanowrimo's main chat (type "/join #sffmuse" to get there), and we're hoping to set up a group blogging function sometime soon. If you're looking for a smallish, cozy writing community, come check us out. ;)
Anyhoo. On to the important part! What are we all writing this year? :)
And I'll start with my own answer. ;) Every year since I started, I write something from the Fortress Launne series. This year I'll be doing it again. :)
So far I've got:
The Flattening of a Temple (won 2004)
Amulet II (won 2005)
Amulet I (2nd version won 2006, 3rd version won 2007, and there needs to be a 4th version >.> )
The Fall of Myan (won 2008)
This year it'll be Birthright which takes place shortly after Temple and is sort of a sequel to both that and Amulet II. (But only sort of. My series is a bit strange.)
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Something that I'll decide when I get to the first page. I get the most out of writing if I don't even choose between a back-burner idea or the new idea that just hit me looking at something out the window until I actually type the first sentence. Then I have no idea where the novel's going or even if the character who just entered is the protagonist or not. It's more fun that way.
But then I'm crazy. I'm also the Monster of Wordcount with over fifty trunk novels to my name and several in edit process heading for a serious career... and this year an entrant in the 3 Day Novel Contest.
I came out with 51,000 words and edited them all (though not fully to my satisfaction) within 72 hours -- it had at least a basic proofread front to end and then a line edit through half of it over the three day weekend.
So my plans for Nanowrimo range between speculative ideas like "Hmm... maybe this year I'll do the novel with the cats..." to "Maybe I'll try to do the thing like it was 3 Day only write bigger and see how many novels I can cram into one month...." but my real goal is: write one novel at least 50,000 words.
The rest is whatever comes, depends on the weather and my mood and what's going on in my life. If the weather gets bad, arthritis knocks me out and those stunts don't work any more. I need to be in good condition to make them happen.
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This year is a YA fantasy about separation and divorce. It's about what happens to the son of Thomas the Rhymer who goes looking for him after dad vanishes to Elfland for 7 years, returns and avoids his family like a plague. Has fae, the elf son of Thomas, demons, boggart assassins and fisher kings. Shall be fun.
As for previous years ....
2003, Waking Dreams: 52,214
2004. Higher Ground: 105,857
2005, Guardian Monsters: 54,347
2006, My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist: 50,074
2006, New Fires: 50,857
2007, The Coroner's Tale: at 62,857
2007, Roadside Attractions at the End of the World: 50,314
2008, Necessity and Power: 74,988
501,508 words. Sheesh. That is mildly worrying. But this year shall be only one nano, blast it. I hope.
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oct. 4, 2009 - 19 00
I'll have to check out your forum, but Cattieloves got me into the chatroom.
I love writing SF/Fantasy stuff, it's one of my guilty pleasures, but this year I'm going to be writing humor. Nothing fantastical about it, either. It's set in the real world.
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hmmm
this year, i have a tentative title of working girls. I have a tentative genre of romance, but there will be lots of other stuff, and maybe not much romance. :) As far as other years go .... ummm ... well nobody *really* loses in nanowrimo :p it's just that i never won yet ;)
This time maybe? You never know i guess.
I wonder if it is possible to write a romance without kittens... no? Then maybe i have the wrong genre :p It may be something of a horror-comedy-romance-sff thing. With hints of victorian novel and no guarantee that there won't be a small outbreak of iambic pentameter. Or even a mid-novel edda break.
sige!
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oct. 8, 2009 - 11 45
Yay and welcome to the club! Sounds like a goal -- I like humor, hope you decide to post it for crit. I know what you mean about SF/fantasy. When I get to make up the world too, it becomes a lot easier to focus on what's the focal point of the story and I don't have to worry about getting the facts right. Like Dave Barry, I specialize in fact-free prose. Actually that's not strictly true because I do research sometimes for fantasy, things like how horses actually behave and so on.
I've always preferred the escape genres to "real world" fiction, but in humor all bets are off and any setting can be funny. Sounds cool. I'll have to try and get into chat more to run into you live.
I love writing SF/Fantasy stuff, it's one of my guilty pleasures, but this year I'm going to be writing humor. Nothing fantastical about it, either. It's set in the real world.
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oct. 8, 2009 - 11 48
Alcar, that rocks! You are so organized. Glorious track record there too. I love this year's concept. Definitely put me down for one of your first readers. I will need to read this.
Also some of those past novels that I seem to have missed -- "My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist" -- I need to read that one. You know me and cats. Actually they all sound good. You have a knack for titling as well as concepts.
As for previous years ....
2003, Waking Dreams: 52,214
2004. Higher Ground: 105,857
2005, Guardian Monsters: 54,347
2006, My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist: 50,074
2006, New Fires: 50,857
2007, The Coroner's Tale: at 62,857
2007, Roadside Attractions at the End of the World: 50,314
2008, Necessity and Power: 74,988
501,508 words. Sheesh. That is mildly worrying. But this year shall be only one nano, blast it. I hope.
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oct. 8, 2009 - 11 52
A horror-comedy-romance-sff thing with kittens sounds a lot more appealing to me than Romance pure. Seriously. You've got a great hook there. On with the kittens. You're on my list too, even though I normally avoid romance like the plague. My flavor of mind candy runs toward the sff-adventure-horror-humor and cats stuff.
Give the kittens plenty of stage time? Hang important plot points on them? Let them do those devastatingly realistic disastrous kitten things like the dive off the headboard onto a man's genitals with a twenty-point landing on the claws? Such a cuuuuute little thing... kittens rock for disrupting anything, they are a force of chaos.
this year, i have a tentative title of working girls. I have a tentative genre of romance, but there will be lots of other stuff, and maybe not much romance. :) As far as other years go .... ummm ... well nobody *really* loses in nanowrimo :p it's just that i never won yet ;)
This time maybe? You never know i guess.
I wonder if it is possible to write a romance without kittens... no? Then maybe i have the wrong genre :p It may be something of a horror-comedy-romance-sff thing. With hints of victorian novel and no guarantee that there won't be a small outbreak of iambic pentameter. Or even a mid-novel edda break.
sige!
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oct. 8, 2009 - 12 00
I have no idea what I'm doing for Nanowrimo this year.
That's the way I like it. I'll know what the book's about when I reach The End.
I have a vague dream of going beyond one Nanowrimo this year and beating my best, which was 2004 when I did two 80,000 word novels and both of them were good. Both of them are still the top of my edits stack and if I really get my act in gear, both of them will get sent out in 2009. One used to be called The Hunt and is now Curse of Vaumuru. The other is a fantasy comedy titled The Necromancer's Tale.
Vaumuru is pure fantasy but set in a non-European background, the magical North American Pleistocene with tribal magic, evil spirits and animal totems more than the usual style of wizards-with-spells. I love my cannibals. They are sympathetic to themselves, their culture is nasty and aggressive but they are proud of that and think of themselves as tougher than anyone else on the continent.
What I'm writing this year is at least one novel, at least 50,000 words, and editing it so that I can ship it out fast. I pledged to Kitten that I was going to do five submissions in 2009 and I would rather not make that four short stories and my Three Day Novel. So since I edited during the 3 Day Novel Contest and got pretty far with it in 72 hours, my insane optimism leads me to think I might try doing the same with this year's first Wrimo and strive for quality, bang on it, tighten it, take no short cuts... and then close my eyes and throw it at the world.
That approach has worked stunningly well for short fiction and got me two pro story sales in years past. So maybe it will work for novels too, if I can keep up the pace and the quality. What I don't know is whether I can keep the pace of a 3 Day Novel Contest for 30 days.
In fact, I know I won't. I'm not shooting for ten novels in November. I'm shooting for two, or more than two. But I will be happy with one if it's a good clean draft ready to send out.
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I'm writing the fourth installment of my urban fantasy series. No kittens in the novel, although I have several cats at home, who seem to like walking across the keyboard when I'm trying to work.
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Also some of those past novels that I seem to have missed -- "My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist" -- I need to read that one. You know me and cats. Actually they all sound good. You have a knack for titling as well as concepts.
*Laughs* That is my second-worst nano (the 2005sci-fi and my first one in 2003 are #1 and #3, I think). It was Literature and contains two paragraphs of one sentence and 1K words. To see if I could. Also my attempt to write a nano in 7 days with the protagonists sex never named, no other people in it (minus their cat) and 2 hours of time passing. The central idea was very, very fun. But it was better suited for, oh, 30K. Not 50. I shudder to think how much of it is probably filler; I don't think I've read it since I wrote it. (The title was via Fennec, iirc. I'd asked people for random titles and picked that one out of a bunch of options.)
Roadside Attractions at the End of the World remains the only title I'd come up with that I loved offhand. Next year I plan to do draft 2 of it (with luck), mostly because the title deserves to be a better novel than the one I wrote.
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oct. 14, 2009 - 05 16
Of course they do. Your cats are trying to help your word count. You can always put brackets around the feline contributions and accapt their help, at least till after the novel's uploaded for counting. If they hit enter and spacebar enough times in the kitty kode it can be some substantial word count!
Ari does that too. But what he likes best is to come slither up into my lap and purr while I'm writing, which gets me leaning over his furry back and snuggling him while I write. This is a good arrangement for both of us since his purring seems to spur me on to better counts and better prose. Yours are all shedding cat hairs of inspiration on you. Using canned air to blow the cat hairs of inspiration out of your keyboard doesn't remove its inspirational effects.
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oct. 14, 2009 - 05 18
LOL -- you could always redo it from title and see what you get! I can't count the number of times I did that with "The Necromancer's Tale" when I believed it would be a short story. Turned out it was a novel and the essential backstory element that made the character work cropped up in a different trunk novel as backstory by accident.
Also some of those past novels that I seem to have missed -- "My Cat Used To Be A Buddhist" -- I need to read that one. You know me and cats. Actually they all sound good. You have a knack for titling as well as concepts.
*Laughs* That is my second-worst nano (the 2005sci-fi and my first one in 2003 are #1 and #3, I think). It was Literature and contains two paragraphs of one sentence and 1K words. To see if I could. Also my attempt to write a nano in 7 days with the protagonists sex never named, no other people in it (minus their cat) and 2 hours of time passing. The central idea was very, very fun. But it was better suited for, oh, 30K. Not 50. I shudder to think how much of it is probably filler; I don't think I've read it since I wrote it. (The title was via Fennec, iirc. I'd asked people for random titles and picked that one out of a bunch of options.)
Roadside Attractions at the End of the World remains the only title I'd come up with that I loved offhand. Next year I plan to do draft 2 of it (with luck), mostly because the title deserves to be a better novel than the one I wrote.
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Hello hello! It's been far too long since I've been active on SFFMuse, but I'm going to remedy that. I hope you still remember me.
This year's novel is a rewrite of last year's novel. I don't have a title yet. Hopefully I won't mangle the story this year as badly as I did last year.
It's kind of a mix of things... Basilisks being hatched on a Kansas pig farm, disappearing parents, human sacrifice, Bermuda Triangle, alternate reality, university that teaches magic, accidental portals, government plots, 6-year-olds saving the day through murder, etc. etc.
Accidental portals seem to be a theme with me, actually. I have one in a different book as well... maybe I'll make it a badly executed portal that goes horribly awry in a way convenient to the plot? OOH or he could splinch himself AND end up in the wrong dimension. Or, you know, something like splinching that JK Rowling hasn't already copyrighted.
I love summarizing my novels... I ALWAYS get good plot ideas when I do.
Let's see if I can remember what I've done in years past...
2004: Diary of a Feline POW - about 2k. My epic fail.
2005: Shadowspeaker, which remains my best attempt at 25k.
2006: Untitled Fantasy novel that didn't go very far
2007: Breeder
2008: Untitled Fantasy novel with a good plot and premise I think
2009: Rewrite of '08
Looking forward to collecting some cat hairs of inspiration... I think I'll need them this year!
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This needs no etc. after it. That alone would be interesting ;)
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oct. 22, 2009 - 06 26
And, of course, having posted my plot and planned it since August, something else comes up that wants to gets written.
The problem is not cat hairs of inspiration, it's too many of 'em :)
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oct. 22, 2009 - 20 41
Well, so far I've had no particular inspiration to look at the notes for this year's planned story. I've got one more brighthub article to get out of the way first, though, so I'm not worried yet. Hopefully it'll all come together in the last week before writing starts. ;)
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oct. 26, 2009 - 17 07
Pepper, welcome back! I like that premise. Murderous five year olds on the side of good, that works for me.
I wound up in a funk today due to a) flu, that has continued for over two weeks and b) disgust with Curse of Vaumuru which I wanted to finish editing before Wrimo. Almost tossed it and thought of rewriting it from premise. But I think I'll do something else -- it really doesn't need that much more work and it's just that I'm tired of thinking about it and want a new story.
Might do a nature novel with prehistoric creatures, depends on the new research material and how good it is. I hit Amazon today and will be getting some new books in on Wednesday and the dino one comes... whenever it does, it went "standard shipping" from a reseller so I have no idea how long they'll take. Only that it'll be here before November's over. Hopefully with at least 10 days of November to go, because if it's good I'll do the one with Albertosaurus.
They hunted in packs of up to 12. That's a complex enough set of relationships to make for a good interesting story.
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oct. 27, 2009 - 19 24
Done with the BrightHubs (for now) (all of them are listed here if anyone wants to look). Got rejected for the job I interviewed for last week. Found three more places to send out apps for this week. Set up the trial version of Scrivener. Wrote down some notes for Birthright. Trying to remember what else I had in mind for this story. I guess things are moving right along. ;)
Maybe I should talk a bit more about what the story is. Most of what I have so far focuses on the treasure hunt aspect. There's a magic box, and it has a three part key in the form of a jade figurine, a golden bird statuette, and a large pearl. Put those three things into their proper places in the carvings on the box lid, and the box opens to reveal ... uhh. Actually I haven't figured that part yet. A good chunk of the first part of the story will involve figuring out that the three-part key exists, and tracking down where they are. More than one party wants this box, of course, so they'll be fighting over it at the same time.
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oct. 28, 2009 - 18 01
And I am now writing version 3.0 of Roadside Attractions at the End of the World instead of the novel I have been planning to since, well, August. Yay nano!
This version is basically a complete re-write from premise (and this time it HAS a premise). Same characters, a few news ones, many discarded ones and it's now a dark urban fantasy and no humour at all. It shall be interesting to see where it goes.
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nov. 1, 2009 - 11 10
Alcar, it sounds great but I doubt you can sustain an entire book with no humour. I can see "humour isn't its main point" but I doubt you'll get through the whole thing without one funny line or gutbuster moment.
I wound up to my surprise doing Magic in the Streets of all things and just finished chapter 2 at 9,794 words -- not bad for the morning's efforts. We'll see how this afternoon goes at the get-together. I'm finally going to one! Need to find socks.
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nov. 1, 2009 - 17 56
I don't usually post after myself, but I got some killer progress -- 15,310 at the moment, at end of Chapter 3. Also I thought of something y'all need to know if you haven't tried it.
The "Update" function at the top of the page WORKS! I've been using it, just typing in my numbers and clicking the Update button instead of going to My Nanowrimo drop-down menu and Edit Novel Info. It is a LOT faster and easier. This may have something to do with why the forums are not as laggy as they have been in previous years.
The forums are behaving decently fast this year! So come post progress and shout out here! All members jump in and let me know how you're doing!
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Yeah, I'm a bit stalled out at the moment. Came back from the local meet-n-greet and was immediately inundated with stuff to do in five separate communities. Seems I'm the de facto leader of the local group, plus ShebaJones of Hobgoblin found me which prompted me to add a blogroll of former Hobgoblinites to my blog, plus a bunch of minor things to do involving the UCFers, plus watching our chat of course ;), and two people in RPoL chat have just become an item. Yay twue wuv. :)
All of which means that I have yet to get back into writing. I wrote about 600 words during the meet-n-greet, but they'll need heavy revising. Still, I'm over the minimum count, so today counts as a success. ;)
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nov. 2, 2009 - 11 51
All of which means that I have yet to get back into writing. I wrote about 600 words during the meet-n-greet, but they'll need heavy revising. Still, I'm over the minimum count, so today counts as a success. ;)
Yay! Yes it sure does. With that much going on, that many other things to do and you still made the count, that's fantastic progress. It's all relative. You have a life. You have so much of a life that what you do is more amazing than my sitting still with nothing better to do than run off at the keyboard.
I bought the tee shirt today. They have a black one this year! And a red one. Maybe if I do two books I'll get a red one too. I have the money but I need to treat that as a reward too -- the black one is a commitment to finish Magic in the Streets this month no matter what. I also donated because it sunk in to me that I'm not broke, anything but broke, I'm not just starving-homeless- living on friends letting me crash any more. If I can get art supplies that often, I can get my tee shirts and support Nanowrimo.
My halo doesn't show yet, but I have one.
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nov. 2, 2009 - 12 17
Uh oh. I think something might have gone wrong in placing my order. I didn't get a confirmation email and don't know my order number -- or whether my order exists or not.
I don't want to go back in and place the order again till I have it confirmed that it doesn't exist, otherwise I'll buy two black t-shirts and two donations. I wouldn't feel too bad about an extra donation but I wasn't planning on doubling the t-shirt until I am certain I'll do two novels. And if I get two, I want one of each color.
I guess I'll have to wait till they reply or till a confirmation email comes. I went back to my cart and it was empty. I put in all the information and okayed the order -- unless I happened to slip the mouse and hit cancel the order instead. But that should've left the stuff in the cart, right?
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nov. 2, 2009 - 12 41
You could try asking about that in the Tech forum - or check the other threads if anyone else is having the same problem. It looks like their servers are being hit hard by month-start again this year. Just not so hard that they actually go down. I've been seeing a lot of forum-caching.
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nov. 2, 2009 - 15 04
I decided to take a chance that I might be ordering an extra t-shirt with an extra donation. If I did, then I'll adjust my checkbook accordingly -- I could cover it if I did. So I went through the process again.
It was different.
This time my halo appeared. So that's evidence that my first try at ordering my donation and shirt just didn't go through, I canceled it or went to its home page and emptied the cart without buying what was in it. I should get at least one t-shirt. I did get my email address right.
I still got no confirmation email but I have got an order number now, 9003, so I should get the shirt or know the reason why. I'm happy to have the halo though.
As long as they ship the shirt I'm happy. It'll be here pretty soon unless handling takes them a long time, they said it'd only be 1-3 days.
I want the cranberry red one too though, so I think that means I do have to write two novels. Or three if I goofed and bought two black shirts. It wouldn't hurt my wardrobe to have more black Nanowrimo t-shirts but they should all reflect real achievements.
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nov. 4, 2009 - 00 26
Yesterday was a zero new count day. A sick day. I mostly slept. I got so far ahead I could afford a sick day.
This now officially breaks the idea that this year is the Nanowrimo when I will actually write every day. I didn't get going again on chapter 7 till after midnight.
I finished it today on the 4th and might do more on the 4th, but probably ought to get some sleep again before I do.
I also did wind up ordering my t-shirt twice, so I'm getting two black t-shirts and made two donations. I don't mind. They've got a good t-shirt this year. I just need to do three novels if I want a red one too.
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nov. 10, 2009 - 14 23
I'm still hanging in there, wordcountwise, but my story has pretty much lost its way, I think. Yesterday's words followed a street gang that were supposed to have a dead body fall on them from the sky, but 2500 words later that hasn't happened yet, because they were busy avoiding a rival street gang and there was nowhere sensible to put it in. Maybe that'll happen today... The street gang's story is starting to look more like a short story set within my larger story, rather than part of the main story per se. If I skip the dead body altogether, all they'd have to do is reach their stated goal, and then get back home without getting killed, and it would probably be about 5k words total.
Then, the other storyline is going nowhere at all. I have no Scene Next in mind. I tried to write one and got 900 words in before the pointlessness overwhelmed me and I stopped.
I guess this must be what the Week Two Wall looks like, for people who don't start out with detailed plots and must now come up with something...
----------WIP 2009: Birthright
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And..... 36K into nano #2. Going to try for a third, because I am insane.
----------Nano #1: Roadside Attractions at the End of the World
Nano #2: The Adventures of the Miskatonic Elementary School Kids #1
Nano #3: Shadows of Never
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nov. 17, 2009 - 15 16
Finally stopped lurking and joined you guys - I'm sure you've seen me around.
:)
----------2008 - Inkara (33,558)
2009 - Lesgas D'Eva (In Progress)