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

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Amy - Nov 01, 2015 3:47:46 pm PST #6397 of 6686

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 6686

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 6686

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 6686

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 6686

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.

Susan W. - Nov 01, 2015 4:39:30 pm PST #6402 of 6686

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

This is an idea that I've had in its most basic form--a baseball story with a time traveler--for ages and ages, but it only took on a definite shape, with characters and stakes, in the last couple of months. Part of that taking shape was realizing having my time traveler really needed to come from the 1920's rather than the 1860's as I'd originally planned, and since what I know about the 20's going in is that they were Roaring and led up to the Great Depression...yeah, I'm winging it.

-t - Nov 01, 2015 4:45:21 pm PST #6403 of 6686

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Way to go all of you that have written something today! Woohoo!

Beverly - Nov 01, 2015 4:53:37 pm PST #6404 of 6686

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh, yay, Calli! And the rest of you who have actually written something. I've begun, but as Amy says,

I have characters, setting, and themes, but not an actual plot.

This is the story of my life. We'll see how it goes.

erikaj - Nov 01, 2015 7:35:02 pm PST #6405 of 6686

Always Anti-fascist!

I think it's weird that I predominantly write crime, yet plot is always the part I'm the worst at.

Gudanov - Nov 18, 2015 5:00:44 am PST #6406 of 6686

Coding and Sleeping

The cover is coming along: Title

I still have a lot of proofreading to do. But it's been very clean so far. A lot of eyes have already looked it over.

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