NaNoWriMo 2008 Info Post!
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pacificpikachuOkay, fellow NaNoWriMo-ers, would you care to answer the following questions, just out of curiosity and so we can track each other and discuss?
Username on the site:
Title of your novel:
Original or fanfiction?:
Genre:
Summary, please (whatever length you want to expand this to is fine):
Everyone who isn't NaNo-ing, feel free to ignore me through the next...rest of October and all of November and possibly beyond.
Okay, I'll actually be writing about plenty of things besides NaNoWriMo, but there will be a lot of NaNoWriMo talk. Consider yourselves warned!
Username on the site:
Title of your novel:
Original or fanfiction?:
Genre:
Summary, please (whatever length you want to expand this to is fine):
Everyone who isn't NaNo-ing, feel free to ignore me through the next...rest of October and all of November and possibly beyond.
Okay, I'll actually be writing about plenty of things besides NaNoWriMo, but there will be a lot of NaNoWriMo talk. Consider yourselves warned!
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Date: 2008-10-29 06:36 am (UTC)Seeing posts about it will make me want to... NO! I CAN'T! XDDDD
Did you get the email from the Nanowrimo people that said they set up a thing with some company associated with Amazon that you could get last year's Nanowrimo PRINTED FOR FREE if you met the word count? That sounded so cool... T_T But I wouldn't kill trees for my Nanowrimo, it was so unfinished and bad. But anyway, it would be awesome if they did that again for this year's. 8D Extra incentive to get your story done, right?
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 07:17 am (UTC)If you do want to do it, I'll be happy to support you... 8D It sounds like a huge undertaking, but really it's just like one or two hours a day or so. It's very accomplishable.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 07:21 am (UTC)Yes, I did! I need to do some editing, revising, and perhaps finish last year's story before I get it printed, but I definitely want to take advantage of the offer! And I won't be surprised if they offer it again for this year, which will be awesome if that's the case.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:51 am (UTC)It really is a TON of fun--I can't recommend it enough! And even if you don't complete it, you still wrote something that you probably wouldn't have otherwise. :D
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:14 am (UTC)Title of your novel: Sound of Pulling Heaven Down
Original or fanfiction?: Fanfiction
Genre: Sci-fi/Romance
Summary: My on-going multi-chapter Gurren Lagann AU fanfic. I plan on starting with Chapter 9 and hopefully at least getting to somewhere in Chapter 11. The premise is a what if Simon and Nia didn't meet when they were kids scenario, exploring how events and characters would have changed because of that, with a darker focus than the original canon.
Title of your novel: The Miracle Potion
Original or fanfiction?: Original
Genre: Mystery/Fantasy
Summary: My novel that I've been working on since high school. I've been stuck on it for over a year but hopefully I can get myself to make progress again. I'll be starting with the end of Chapter 7 and hopefully will get through Chapter 9. The premise- a Potion Maker named Nelly is hired to create a potion for the son of a wealthy Baron living on an estate that floats in the sky. He is struck with a mysterious illness that no other doctor has been able to recognize, but after looking him over, Nelly realizes that he is actually being poisoned. Now she has to find out who is doing the poisoning and why so she can put a stop to it.
Title of your novel: Uhhh no title as of yet.
Original or fanfiction?: Original
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Summary: I only have a vague conception of the story for this one. I just came up with the characters last week and I want to write something using them. I don't even have names for the characters yet ahaha. But I think it'll be fun to make stuff up as I go along and see where it goes. I plan on retreating to this project whenever I get stuck on the other two. The premise I have so far is that a runaway prince who was born mute hires a tomboy merchant girl to guide him to the land where his mother was born, because he suspects that the curse that caused him to be born without a voice originated there. Or something like that, I haven't worked out the details. 8D;
Fffffff now that I've written all that I mind as well post it on the site or my LJ too.
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:43 am (UTC)Enlighten me.
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Date: 2008-10-29 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 06:36 pm (UTC)That should answer all of your questions!
...YOUR ICON. IS AMAZING.
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Date: 2008-10-29 06:40 pm (UTC)Username on the site: juggerknot
Title of your novel: Ninja Prom Night (well that's the working title atm, but probably will change?)
Original or fanfiction?: Fanfiction (Naruto)
Genre: Humor/Romance
Summary, please: Really retarded AU that exists purely for my own self-satisfaction. In which Naruto is a girl/Minato & Kushina are still alive, and she asks for a village-wide prom for her 16th birthday. Basically all my favorite characters compete to be Naruko's date ... uh ... LOL I'm even having trouble typing out the summary, how will I ever write this unless I'm really drunk?
I considered doing a ~real~ novel but atm my brain still has too many screws loose to focus on something serious & close to my heart.
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Date: 2008-10-29 06:42 pm (UTC)I think it'll be fun to work on so many projects at once, because like you were saying, if you get stuck on one you can always hop to another one, and it allows you to work with different types of writing and characters. It should be interesting, and I'm curious to see how it goes! :)
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Date: 2008-10-29 06:51 pm (UTC)The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write something and have fun, embarrassment be damned. Even if it's the totally ridiculous, you're still putting words down and--let's face it--ridiculous things are way more fun to write than serious business.
Sounds like this will be a lot of fun to work on, so I'll be rooting for you! Try not to get too embarrassed, and just relax and have fun! ♥
For the record, I saw someone on the NaNoWriMo forums who is writing a novel about a cowboy who rides on a giant grasshoppper and shoots velociraptors out of a gun, so...you have nothing to worry about. 8D
*Adds you on the site*
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 10:05 pm (UTC)Title of your novel: Laeugeo: The Final Dream
Original or fanfiction?: Oreegeenuhl.
Genre: Fantasy, as always!
Summary, please: Mine is about a woman who is essentially the Goddess Queen Bitch of the Universe, and whatever she wishes for comes true... only in really horrible ways. However, she doesn't realize this until the very end of the story, at about the same time as the other two people traveling with her. Upon the realization that she's the one who's causing all this shit to happen to them, they kill her. That, in effect, makes the universe blink out of existence. Aaand that would be the end of my story. It's kind of hard to continue past that.
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Date: 2008-10-29 10:10 pm (UTC)And wow, that story sounds awesome. I love your choice of ending, because it's appropriately shocking and fitting.
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Date: 2008-10-29 10:16 pm (UTC)I have OCD so bad, srsly. D:
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Date: 2008-10-30 03:08 am (UTC)Title of your novel: Zeitgeist (working title)
Original or fanfiction?: Original!
Genre: Sci-fi
Summary: Durr hurr. I'm not really sure yet. Something about a robot girl in a futuristic world without women.
This is my first time giving into the siren call of the WriMo. It's all your fault that I was tempted into this in the first place. Nyeh. =P
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Date: 2008-10-30 05:02 am (UTC)Another minion for the novel-writing cause, kukuku!I think you're going to love it! If you have any questions or anything, let me know! I obsessively love NaNoWriMo, so I'm always happy to answer questions/offer insane rambling motivational speeches/whatever else you might require!Actually, let me offer you one piece of advice right off the bat: Go hang around and post on the forums. It's SO FUN there I swear you could write your whole 50K in there without noticing, haha. I mean, don't write 50K there, but hanging out in the forums for a half hour or so a day will really do magical things for your motivation.
Sounds like an interesting concept, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about it as you write it! :D
*Adds you on the site*
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Date: 2008-10-30 05:04 am (UTC)OCD in novel-writing can be a good thing. >D And a bad thing as well, but mostly a good thing.
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Date: 2008-10-30 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 01:54 am (UTC)Username on the site: Tonko
Title of your novel: The Lingering Stars (working title, not really much relevance left to the way the story ended up turning out)
Original or fanfiction?: Original
Genre: Fantasy
Summary: You asked for it:
The three gods each have a race they created to watch grow and struggle on the earth. Every thousand years, when all three moons are full at exactly the same time, the soulwardens, who return the dead to the gods for rebirth, must themselves be reborn, and every thousand years, it is a test for one from each mortal race to bring the unborn wardens to the Holy Islands to be reborn.
This time, Javier from the humans, Orisko from the mole-like vakond, and Elair from the raptors are the ones who find the mysterious stones containing unborn soulwardens suddenly in their possession, and come to realize their part in their race's survival.
They travel across their world to where the islands in the southern seas step up into the sky, and decide, along the way, if the invasiveness of humanity, ruthlessness of the raptors, or the nearly-extinct vakond are to be preserved or let dwindle.
...that sounded way less pretentious in my head.
Anyway, characters include:
Javier M'daille, third and mostly ignored son of a noble family and survivor of the death of his twin.
Colm J'veille, abbey-raised orphan who works at the abbey graveyard and is Javier's closest friend.
Orisko Fodor, vakond astrologer and one of the all-to-few few of her race living in the human Port City
Elair Sharjri, a raptor mercenary and former child bodyguard to a princess, spared with intentional cruelty when her charge's family was overthrown and murdered during a rebellion.
Adelbirt Wenslas, a human cleric of the raptor god in secret, and head cook at a large Port City inn. He took Elair in after the rebellion.
Sarna, a shifter fae and final survivor of his hive's violent death at the hands of human traders. He was rescued by Adelbirt, and is a rarity for being alive at all.
And I need to find a better word than "soulwarden", it's way too Bleach Soul Reaper for my taste, but it was the first thing that came to mind, heh.
ETA: tweaked a description, because I'm that anal.
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:27 am (UTC)Sounds great so far! I imagine it'll be an interesting one to write with some good themes going and emotional depth. I like your character descriptions a lot so far as well! Sounds like something I'd want to read. ;D
And you don't need to worry about sounding pretentious. I'm in Literary Fiction again, so pretentious is the name of the game, haha!
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:30 am (UTC)It's cool/interesting that you're writing the books out of order! Must be kind of a puzzle fitting everything together correctly and being careful to avoid plotholes.
And I always kill things in everything I write, so...uh, yeah. Every story I plan I go "THIS TIME I will not kill the main character!" And every. Single. Time. I fail. :( I don't even remember the last original story I wrote where I didn't kill the main character. It always ends up being thematically important for them to die--I can't help it!
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 05:56 am (UTC)My original concept this year didn't involve character death at all and it was going to be "lighter" than what I normally write.
I'm not really sure where along the way that went down the gutter.