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The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?

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Amy - Oct 31, 2015 7:20:29 am PDT #6392 of 6724

Because books.

I'd like to, although I've never succeeded at it before. I've been having a really hard time carving out time for writing with my job, so I don't know if an added deadline would be a good thing or a bad thing, but I have a few different ideas, so it wouldn't be for lack of a story.

Even if it just kickstarted me into writing regularly again, it would count as a win.

Now I have to think about how I would do it. Figuring out the time to write beforehand is key for me or it just slips by.

Zenkitty - Oct 31, 2015 7:52:53 am PDT #6393 of 6724

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Every year I mean to do NaNo and don't. This year I have a friend whose whole family is doing it and she's poking me with sticks to get me to keep her company. I can find time to write at least an hour a day most days. It's getting my butt in the chair and putting words on the page that's hard.

Still haven't settled on a concept. I may just start writing with no idea what will come out of me, and see what happens.

Amy - Oct 31, 2015 8:16:23 am PDT #6394 of 6724

Because books.

I may just start writing with no idea what will come out of me, and see what happens.

That can be fun, and also sometimes enlightening.

Amy - Nov 01, 2015 3:24:52 pm PST #6395 of 6724

Because books.

So far I have three paragraphs. But it's a start, right?

Zenkitty - Nov 01, 2015 3:29:14 pm PST #6396 of 6724

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I have written a sentence.

Amy - Nov 01, 2015 3:47:46 pm PST #6397 of 6724

Because books.

A post by Maggie Stiefvater (she wrote the Shiver books -- werewolves -- and The Scorpio Races, and the Raven Boys books) on NaNoWriMo: [link]

I don't know my ending. I do know why I'm writing what I'm writing, more or less. I think.

I'm realizing, though, that I have characters, setting, and themes, but not an actual plot.

Calli - Nov 01, 2015 3:54:38 pm PST #6398 of 6724

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I wrote about 1,200 words today. The nanowrimo site said I should have 1,600, but whatever.

Amy - Nov 01, 2015 3:56:15 pm PST #6399 of 6724

Because books.

Go, Calli!

If you do 1,600 per day, you get 50,000, yeah.

Susan W. - Nov 01, 2015 4:20:04 pm PST #6400 of 6724

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm going to try to start tonight. I'm going with a loose interpretation of "50,000 words total of novel and world-building/characterization notes," because I didn't have time to do anything like as much pre-writing as I'd planned.

Amy - Nov 01, 2015 4:29:57 pm PST #6401 of 6724

Because books.

I didn't have time to do anything like as much pre-writing as I'd planned.

I didn't do any. I'm going with an idea I had a few months ago, but I only have half a page of very basic notes. The setting and some of the characters are pretty well formed in my head, but I don't have anything like the foundation I usually do when I start writing.

So ... I'm counting my paragraphs as having started today, and I'm going to brainstorm some plot stuff tonight.

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