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Post by RJA on Feb 29, 2012 17:54:13 GMT -5
Ooh 6 minutes left till March! Lets get started! woot woot
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Feb 29, 2012 18:29:14 GMT -5
5.5 hours left. Twitterverse is buzzing, I'm obsessively checking forums, and procrastinating until it starts! XD
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Post by RJA on Feb 29, 2012 18:36:19 GMT -5
March has started and I'm still procrastinating ^_^
I'm now considering to make a new twitter account just for my writing stuff, since I only tweet in Dutch at the moment and it's mostly business and study stuff on there. Just need to figure out if I will be able to combine those accounts...
(andI just typed and forgot that I wanst allowed to use my backspace key haha, automaticly I guess)
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 1, 2012 1:09:53 GMT -5
XXD I am still procrastingating too! Gaaa, gaaah, extra g. "procrastingating" sounds painful! XD
Following you on your new twitter account :-( :-) I mean. XD
I wrote a few words just to kick off, but I really am not in the mood to continue. Part of the reason is that I real yshoul really should b ep be plotting also, and I can't write without a plan or an outline of some sort. =(
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Post by RJA on Mar 1, 2012 10:22:13 GMT -5
HAha it is painfull with that exrta g!
And swaw you following back, yay. Seems really weird, only having 6 followers XD
You should plot a bit as well then. But a start on the kickoff chalelnge is good! Is should get some more writing done taoday. Just spend over 12 hours lying in bed hahah. Waste of time ^_^
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 1, 2012 23:14:19 GMT -5
Well, I don't use my Twitter account much (in fact, I only resurrected it forMarNoWriMo), so it's not really weird that I don't have that many followers.
I don't think I'm going to get much more writing done today. But I just realized...my idea has expanded to a trilogy. If I can somehow magically learn to plot, then if I plot Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3 in March, April, and May respectively, I can use June Camp, JulNo, and August Camp to write Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3. If I pull this off, then I don't give a flying rat's underpants up a flagpole whether I win Milwordy or not. That will be epic enough! xD
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Post by RJA on Mar 1, 2012 23:23:49 GMT -5
Haha nice! Goog luck on your plotting. What is your plotting technique?
Pfff its 5.22am I should reall y go to sleep. Did write almost 2k since I originally was going to sleep actually haha. I'm going to be sooo tired tomorrw and Ive got a girlsnight planned with thwo friends. Whoops
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 2, 2012 0:18:42 GMT -5
Hoooly wow....aaaah...you better go to b ask bed! *bed go to bed, I mean! xD I...don't have a plotting technique. XD I am a pans pan pantser, who doesn't know how to plan. The thing is, I can't pants, either! I for s really r work better when I have a detailed outline to stick to, so that I can write one tiny scene at a tie. *time. However, I have no idea wh how to plot. I am trying Snowflake this March, in #NaNoPlotMo, but Snowflake doesn't take care of any of my questions. =P I mean, I don't know how to integrate backstory (reveal it at the correct time), weave together different through lines (which Snof Snowflake doesn't handle), and how to balance character dvelo development with action, and...pacing...and...stuff....er...yeah. And that's even aside from figuring out what HAPPENS in the book, which is very difficult! =(
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Post by RJA on Mar 2, 2012 16:49:42 GMT -5
Haha, fell alsleep around 6.30am in the end. Woops. Did write 4,5k though haha. Couldn't get up in de morning, so I skipped training my horse, bad, badme. And poor animal ^_~
But good thing I rwrote. Having a movie night with tho-w-two friends tonight and going in to town in a bit. Yay for having dirnks!
I don't plot well eath *ahem* either. But I do make big outlines. Those are more like really rough first drafts -makes me think I do fninish first draft ervery now and then. But they go from quite detailed dialogues to this happened then and then hihi. Bt I pant a lor-lot as welle!
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 3, 2012 0:05:15 GMT -5
Hmmm....yeah, I pants, but it never goes anywhere, bc beioa becu because if I don't know where to go, I end up writing writ in writing random stuff. =P
I wish that PlotMo had a magic wand that ou could tell me how to plot! =( This is so hard! /while whine w /whine whine /whine
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Post by RJA on Mar 3, 2012 0:16:56 GMT -5
Haha, I don't odo plots well, since I can't stick with them. I write tdown a really nice plot and then I just HAVE to go a different wh-way haha
But when I pants I've got your problem as well, doesn't go anywhere. Or it does, but it just never ends. Ive got a thousand never ending so-stories!
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 3, 2012 0:43:12 GMT -5
YES! Tell me about it! With the first novel that I tried to write, I made the mistake of throwing every single thought I had into it, so I never finished. In 100k words, I had only just started.
Now, even though I know how to throw things out, or to leave them for different books (they will get written, after all), I still meander all over the place, because I get stuck in endless, pointless dialogue.
I have a problem with dialogue. I can write it forever. It will be meaningless, but I can make my characters talk till their jaws fall off.
The problem is that my plot never goes anywhere because of it, and I have a 'talking head' problem. I don't know how to do actual events. =P
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Post by RJA on Mar 3, 2012 0:51:27 GMT -5
Oh same problems, same things!
Well, when I just started writing -was really young- I just never sticked with the same thing -er, still tend to do so- But I had all of these WiP's of about 8 to 10k's. But then I started to write more and longer and now I'm mostly working in trilogies and series haha.
And I've got loads of pointless scenes. They were just 'fun' to write. And my dialogues go on for ever and ever. Well just like when I'm in a bar and just keep talking bullcrud to someone for about an hour or two ^_^ -guess my characters are just like me-
Nowadays I force myself to think of endings to my stories. But somehow I just don't get to it. It sucks being a writer hahaha
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 3, 2012 1:08:32 GMT -5
I know! Being a writer is a blessing and a curse. Actually, it's like a curse which your warped mind perceives as a blessing, so you wouldn't want it lifted, even if you had the chance!
Yeah, I had the same trend. My stories got longer over the years, but they never got done. I am a champion at word wrangling NaNo style, but NaNo techniques only serve to encourage me to bring out the worst of my writing. I actually really need a lesson in the opposite direction...to teach me how to write with clarity, direction, and structure!
Clarity I can work on by myself, in small scene bites, but I have no idea what to do about the other two. =P
I have a vague idea about the structure of my novel, but no idea how to narrow it down. Right now I'm having a nightmare on my hands, sifting through everything and trying to split it, and put it in its place. It's so hard, because in 65k worth of words and planning, I've got things from all stages of my novel. Things have changed a lot from start to finish, so I've got things that are no longer quite valid. I just got rid of two characters, and replaced them with two others, so now I've got to weave those two in.
Ugh, this is SO HARD!
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Post by RJA on Mar 3, 2012 2:01:29 GMT -5
Yeah, but I really see it as a blessing as well. I love writing and it's a lot of a hobby for me as well. I don't need to be published. But I have these thousands of thoughts in my mind and I just love to let them flow out and fantasize about them. It would be nice to get published once, but I just have a lot of fun writing them.
The hell thing is, that it's frustrating to never finish anything. After some time, my mind just drifts away to different or new stories and makes me write on those.
Guess it's the 'fun' thing that makes me go without structure as well. I don't think that much about what other readers might like or what makes it easier/nicer to read. I just like to let my mind flow and write these wonderful, endless and structureless scenes haha.
But as I write more and more, the thought of being able to finish something ones and acknowlidged for your writing some days gets more attractive.
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