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[pacificpikachu]

Hooray! I just met my word quota for the first day! Forty minutes before midnight, nonetheless. \o/

It's been going fairly well so far, really. My narrator keeps changing tones on me (angsty to bitter to sarcastic to philosophical to...you get the idea. Just settle on one thing, please, narrator! You're not that mercurial, I don't think ;_;) and so the story itself feels pretty disjointed right now to put it mildly, but as far as actual word count goes 1,667 isn't bad at all. Here I was thinking it was going to be long and painful, but as long as I sit down and just type it's not bad. It's certainly survivable, though I'm not sure it's fair for me to say that after only one day.

Hahaha, when it's all over I'll probably have to hack this thing to pieces, but for now it's a good enough basis to build on. It'll do. :)

So, I've been trying to keep up on all your NaNo exploits, f-list, but it's been a rather busy day and I didn't have much time to do anything but skim your entries. Anyone care to tell me how it's been going so far for you? Any random comments? Are you having fun yet?

I should have at least a little more time tomorrow to read and comment on your entries, though I have to clean the guinea pig cage, do homework, take care of all the pets, AT LEAST address those packages and have them ready to send ASAP, and maybe do a little homework if I can bring myself to do so.

Anyway, I'm stopping here in my novel so I have something to look forward to tomorrow. (I'm right about to introduce Crow!)

I hope everyone's NaNoing is going well so far! I'll be stalking your journals later, I promise. (hitchi, I'm so happy you decided to go through with it!)

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[tonko.livejournal.com]

\o/ I got to 2600 words or so, went from 8 pm to midnight straight through. Got a nasty crick in my back from using my laptop, I think I'll have to use the desktop today instead.

Mine's... hmm... I haven't actually read a novel recently, or not a self-contained one, anyway (in near the end of a third volume of something) so I can't clearly remember any examples of how to start things off. I'm pretty sure the way I did it has big "YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG" elements everywhere, I'm probably trying to cram in way too much to quickly while also not having anything important going on, but oh well, I can always rearrange later.

Definitely harder work than a fanfic, I keep having to stop and think about things, lol.

Dunno if I'll have time to do very much tonight, though, we're raiding Karazahn in WoW, till 10. Good thing I have a bit of a head start, I think.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I saw that on the NaNoWriMo site! Good for you! :DDD I need to type elsewhere, too, I think, as my laptop is too high on this desk to type all that comfortably.

Hahaha, I feel like my novel's beginning is very YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, too. I mean, it's not terrible, but it just doesn't feel...right. But, yes! We have an infinite amount of time for editing whereas we have a limited amount of time to write, so just go for it and don't worry about it too much. :D

It is a little harder than a fanfic, I agree. I have to keep my random meanderings to a minimum and actually get on with what I mean to say. XD

Good luck, and just don't allow yourself to get behind! You should be at 3200-ish by the end of the day, even if you have to BS your way through that.

[ylmik-wisty.livejournal.com]

My story is going very slowly. It's boring. :( I can't wait til I get to "Part 2" which is when my main character leaves this world. I'm sort of keeping Part 1 in a more passive tone, and I'll write in a livelier style in Part 2 because it's supposed to be more of the present.

I don't know what your story is about! Care to give me a little summary? :D

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Aw, well the faster you write, the faster you'll get to Part 2! So just stick with it, and hopefully your momentum will get up soon. :D

I can't give you a "little summary", but I can give you a rather long one.

It's basically about two boys. One is a former honors student, about eighteen years old, who kills someone (somewhat accidentally, but somewhat on purpose, too) and runs away from the scene of the crime and ends up living in this random city. While he's in this city, he meets another boy--about fourteen, and definitely an odd one. The second boy, who has named himself Crow, has this obsessive, unwavering belief that his parents have been reincarnated as these three blackbirds he cares for, and that if he goes to see "The Great Raven" on an island, the raven will turn his family back into humans.

The narrator, nicknamed "Magpie" by Crow, is reluctant to go along with Crow's delusions, but he becomes kind of enchanted by Crow's obtuse views of the world, so he tags along on this strange journey. As they get closer and closer to the ocean, Magpie starts seeing the same strange delusions as Crow--leading to the question of whether or not Crow's delusions are the actual reality or not.

It's...rather bizarre. XD

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Yay, you should post an excerpt on the NaNo site! You're a pretty fast writer, so as long as you have the material, I'm not worried about j00.

I don't know if I'm DOING IT WRONG or not, but most likely am. They're our novels, though...can we be DOING IT WRONG?

On the NaNo site, I put my genre as "mainstream" fiction, but I'm rethinking that...it's not like my other novel in that every single thing is symbolic and it's very formally written. This one, though, still as some symbolism, biblical references, random allusions, and a conceit that is basically the premise of the story, so...do you think it would be literary fiction? I'm not sure if it's "mainstream" because I'm really not a writer of page-turners...

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I don't have any good excerpts yet. ;_; Maybe when I finish the scene I'm working on right now, though. The first interaction between the two MCs is a little bit odd. XD And, yes, I do suppose I'm a faster writer than I thought? XD This NaNoWriMo thing is fun!

I don't know if we can DO IT WRONG, really, but my beginning just...doesn't quite gel? Oh well, I can always go back and cut it out all together, or edit it to death. Now I'm getting kind of in the flow, I think.

I recommend you go read things in the Literary Fiction forum, and if you find yourself agreeing with what everyone says, relating, and going, "Oh WOW, I'm going through the same thing with my story!", then it probably belongs there. There's quite a bit of debating in the Lit Fic forum about what constitutes Lit Fic, so you could go read those threads to see what you think.