NaNoWriMo

[nathan_p]

AKA come write 50 000 words in a month. It's fun, I promise. (Moar info here.)

So, any other NaNoers here? (I'm Artaxiad Prescott.)

If so, got a plan yet? What's your novel about?

[nathan_p]

>.> I'm just envious that you can write so much so fast. I've done like a thousand today and it has me rather tired.

[Dual]

I'm envious that you all have ideas. D:

[EndOfTheEarth]

I don't have that many ideas. I'm just sending one character in a general direction, and piling up characters around her who are just trying to figure out what the hell happened.

[nathan_p]

I had a nice idea, but then Dickface started complaining about his boots, and before I knew it, SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER I was writing military fiction.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Mostly it's a cop and an investigator blurting bizzare theories to try and explain a bunch of murders. In the last passage I wrote, the two competing theories were "psycho-teen" and "B-movie sci-fi monster plotline." Before that it was "closet bear trainer" and "rogue seeing-eye dog." Once you start thinking about how to puzzle out a crime scene, the words pile up really fast.

[nathan_p]

I got a chemist to talk about how Victorian medicine makes absolutely no sense >.> Next up, the oldie: man, the army sucks.

Word-padding is an art :\

[EndOfTheEarth]

Knowing you, you probably could have turned that chemist's rant into your senior thesis...unless it was a dialogue.

Which part of "Army sucks"? Is the the "Boot Camp sucks" part or the "Your friends getting dismembered sucks" part?

[nathan_p]

Oh, it was internal monologue.

So far he's only gotten to "my boots don't fit and the weather sucks and my uniform sucks", but I actively look forward to "holy shit I just cut off a man's ARM", "there is no way a BULLET can do that much damage", and other flavors of "I'm a chemist, not a doctor" shenanigans.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Fun.

Then again, when I try to write action, it seems to pass by really quickly. It's when the folks are pondering before and after the fact that I feel that I have the most to say.

Best of luck regardless.

[nathan_p]

I'm looking forward to it, in a way :\ Once I shut him up and lay the ground of everyone's backstory in this war, they'll probably leave me alone long enough for me to go back to my original plan... teeth-grittingly slow-moving intrigue, where the entire first book is devoted to getting all the chess pieces to where they need to be.

[Dual]

I hazn't started.

[Xuut]

Started,

Playing with a crack-pot Fantasy idea that may-kind-of-sort-of being stealing from that Anime Full Metal Alchemist.

Only I really hate guns, so I'm working to get rid of those. Maybe. Might thrown them in to the villains for them to screw with the protagonists just because.