NaNoWriMo is coming up for you aspiring novellist out there.
I'm always starting novels. I have a few finished outlines. Trying to work up to actually completing one of those with a finished outline.
I finally committed this year to doing NaNoWriMo.
1667 words per day? I'd like to be a part of something motivating and fun to get some work cranked out. I'd like to see if these ideas are as good over 200 pages as they seem in an outline. But gee whiz....when do these people eat and work?
I only have one friend a professional writer who has finished on the deadline out of the 5 people I know who participate. A lot of them finish with in a week or so so kudos to them and good luck to anyone trying for it. I know Neil Gaiman was doing it pretty regularly over the past few years , I don't know if he is this year though.
I really can't wait for NaNoWriMo. I've written two books during it, and I'm currently editing my second (the first was Runescape fanfiction--ugh). Site update tomorrow!
Multiple Novels, at least 26 in progress as of right now. Glad to hear they're other writers out there :)
Some of the ideas are just for fun though, so for official, non-copy-righted stuff I've written it comes out to...19 different stories not based on Pathfinder, Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, and Warhammer (Fantasy and 40K)
Power to everyone currently writing.
Yup. Writing a series. I've done Nanowrimo a few years now, and still haven't won. The timing with Holidays is difficult :)
I'm writing a couple, actually- I like to bounce between two at a time so I have something to work on when I hit the wall. Although both are currently on the back burner since I've had to focus all of my attention on writing a 4 level game module lately (and procrastinating on the Paizo boards). Stupid deadlines.
I've been planning several for years and years, along with a few short stories, but the most I've managed to finish is a microshort (sub 300 words - which I still need to revise based on some feedback I've gotten; then maybe I'll eventually attempt to publish it somewhere).
I write too much at work, then don't have the juice left for pleasure writing.
...and from the Paizocon writing workshop ...
I have three short stories in different stages right now: rewrite, editing, and rejection collecting :) Got a finalist at the local writing guild with one that Sutter and Chris critiqued. If I remember correctly yours really close to making the rounds as well? :) Hopefully it went well.
As far as novels go, does outline, and character notes count as writing? I am switching to an urban fantasy for NaNoWriMo this year.
Done it twice now, but this time I WILL WIN! :)
I wrote a short novel when I was 16 (six years ago) about a comet falling on Thay and scattering antimagic dust. Then I decided not to write anymore cause everyone is writing a fantasy novel and translating is a b+#@@.
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I write when I can, so I don't really do NaNoWriMo.
And I'm hoping to publish my novel as my senior project for high school, so I have a deadline four years away. Incidentally, one of my classmates already published a novel. Everyone in my writing club is very jealous.
Ah, yes. Now I feel the failure of thirty years. When I was young, I looked for writers who had first published when young; I used them as examples to say, "See--19 year old kids do get published."
Now, I look for older writers; those who published their first best seller as a second career, or as a retirement hobby... "See-- retirees do..."
Ah, what's the use.
If I remember correctly yours really close to making the rounds as well? :) Hopefully it went well.Yep. In fact, I'm still making the rounds. Needless to say, it's going very, very slowly. One editor who read it didn't want it, a second is still considering it a year and two rewrites later (at least I know she's seriously considering it instead of reflexively rejecting it), and I'm currently polishing it up for two more editors who recently requested it.
Congratulations! that is cool and I will be able to say "I met him when... :)"
Writer's conference is on my agenda, but I have been struggling which to spend my limited resources on. Any idea how to research for the right ones? Any you would suggest?
Me.
Even considering submitting a Golarion proposal, but that's on backburner until current series done, and edited unto publishable status, if not actually picked up. Paranormal thriller woven through history. (Lots of research...little of it used...but enriching.)
New guy w/ family/job/etc. in my writer's group wakes up before work and writes for a couple hours, every day. Cranks out a lot, and submits too.
That's how you do so many words/day.
(Looks over at own dusty papers)
Perhaps I shouldn't be on these boards...
If you are at any stage in writing a novel and are in the Seattle area over the summer, the PNWA summer conference is worth attending at least once.
I think a few of local authors are PNWA. I am five/six hours east of Seattle and have family there. This is definately doable. :)
Thanks,
I am. In MY MIND....
I'm writing a series of comic books in screen format. I would be extremely interested in corresponding with KestlerGunner, if he's reading.
i have a couple stories in my head.
one i started writing for my wife to read while i was in iraq, i know she loves it.
another one is about my time in Iraq, with a twist.
I want to, and have a great idea for what it is to be about, but I can't decide on a tech level.
I -wish- I could write a novel. I always get great ideas, make it about 2 paragraphs in before getting writers block, and ragequiting -.-
Speaking of corresponding with other board members...
Is anyone else in this thread on Facebook? I just recently started a Facebook account with the express purpose of friending and otherwise networking with fellow writers. Is that something anyone else here would be interested in? Maybe a Facebook group for writers from the Paizo boards, or a Paizo NaNoWriMo group.
Aye look me up. And you can find me on the nanwrimo under this name. Now that I think about it the wayfinder fiction site is the same name, but I am not there very often.
BTW My nano novel has really stalled. Except for the climax I finished every scene I outlined. :) 12 days to go and that means I need ten more scenes *ack*
Wow I have so much more time to post now that NaNoWriMo is over :)
Wow I have so much more time to post now that NaNoWriMo is over :)You met your NaNoWriMo goals this year, I hope.
Start with an outline: Check
Wrote every day: checkDoubled 2010 wordcount: check
Made it to the halfway mark. che... almost (2.5K short)
Win: ...:( close enough this was a long shot to be sure. :)
How did you do? Better than me I hope.
I have two novels in mind, and I've written rough versions of them, one having thirty chapters and the other stuck in the second one. I really need to plan them out more carefully if I ever want to publish something...and seeing how fast time is going, I fear that I will never be able to publish even one of them before biting the dust.
I got a rough draft of my first together, but I'm making substantial changes. It's a sword and sorcery comedy.
I'm working on something. It's a fantasy thing, sort of a sixguns & sorcery space opera. Playing with a lot of fantasy, western, and space opera tropes.
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I'm working on something. It's a fantasy thing, sort of a sixguns & sorcery space opera. Playing with a lot of fantasy, western, and space opera tropes.
This is one of the Scifi tales I started and abandoned after it turned into a Short Story.
Uberspace. A cluster of Stringships sat with precision at the very zenith of a galactic spiral arm and from there overlooked a Universe of possibility. The gathered cluster of Uber contemplated every aspect of the decision ahead of them. They finally had within their means the technology to answer the ultimate question. Firstmother Shuuk-Surt-Yeft extolled orange joy at the prospect of the great experiment discovering the creator of all. Orange rippled across the sensate glands of the rest of the populace.
A beam directed out from the stringship and reached out from the gathered fleet towards an unsuspecting Universe.
Somewhere ahead of the beam a Stringship drifted unnoticed, its systems in disarray. Technician Quet-Ques-Tuuk hung upside down as she struggled with the repair of the active spline module that had become the problem. The triantiwantigon slipped from her grasp and plunged through the containment field and into the core. Her sensate gland flashed embarrassment yellow. The Stringship vanished in a change of possibility and a black hole expanded in its place.
The beam altered direction just enough that it would now miss the planet where a small purple cloud of sentient energies busied itself with creating life. Instead it worked its way past entire galactic clusters teaming with beings of advanced awareness. On and on past star after star the beam raced before plunging toward a simple world orbiting a single star. The beam reached down through its distorting atmosphere and settled on a strange entity sitting on the edge of an even stranger machine.
The sensors analysed every aspect of this beings existence.
In its limited selection of appendages was a strange container of liquid filled with molecules common in the formation of life. The gathered Uber experienced the moment and orange rippled across a sea of sensate glands.
This was the Creator.
A small group of technicians clustered around the replication module. The Creator’s beverage emerged with all reality.
A rainbow of indecision rippled through the group until one sampled the mix of molecules. The effect was immediate and almost toxic as it affected certain neural capacities. The Technician experienced an odd warm feeling washed through the sensate gland. Every Uber present experienced it before the technician’s form collapsed into unconsciousness. It was something that the unsleeping Uber had never experienced. Technicians rushed the replication module as everyone wanted one.
Fift-Ftan-Plook came to nexus inebriated with a holy beverage tightly grasped in an appendage bundle. Firstmother Shuuk-Surt-Yeft was expressing deep redness on the virtues of not consuming the holy beverage.
Firstmother’s sensate gland swelled red-yellow-red-yellow as the now drunken Fift-Ftan-Plook ineptly grasped at the Firstmother’s procreation bundle and the sensation was soon replaced with a red admonishment of Fift-Ftan-Plook’s religious choices. Dejected, Fift-Ftan-Plook grasped the narrow bottle neck, shattered the bottom end of the emptied beverage, and went the firstmother with the broken, jagged end.
The conflict was relayed across the fleet and out into the Universe before the communication system failed. The gathered Uber descended into anarchy. Those with beverage attacked those without.
The Human race sat in awe as every television channel that had begun receiving the all blanketing alien signal suddenly went to static.
First contact had ended before it began in a drunken brawl.
A late reply, but since I stopped DMing I started to put down my ideas into goofy stories. They are mostly incomplete ideas or thoughts that I never managed to put into my campaign.
I mostly post them on fanfiction.net site, and am amused at what people think of them. If anyone is interested its under the dungeons and dragons section.