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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 8, 2013 7:42:18 GMT -5
According to the nifty countdown timer in the sidebar, there are 23 days until Camp NaNoWriMo begins. The rules this year are more flexible than in previous years - you get to pick your own goal (anything above 10k) and scriptwriters and rebels are encouraged to participate. So, who's going Camping in April this year? Do you have a project in mind? Anything else you'd like to talk about? |
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Post by nanogeekette on Mar 8, 2013 14:35:02 GMT -5
I have two novels I'm going to write (a DW fanfic and a YA romance). My goal is 100k, but if things go downhill in April, I'll change the goal over to 80k...
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Post by marielaurent2223 on Mar 10, 2013 13:15:54 GMT -5
I am working on a historical romance novel in April for Camp and possibly a second novel too.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 16, 2013 8:17:19 GMT -5
Anyone planning on sleeping in a real tent or cabin? Converting your bed into a tent? Making a giant pillow fort?
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 16, 2013 12:37:00 GMT -5
I had originally planned to spend April - June working on "Draft 2" of Dark Arcana, Book 1, but I don't know anymore. Every time I set aside time to work on an idea, that idea resolutely refuses to be written. My hydra is like a box of cats. Nothing ever works until I stop paying attention to it, at which time it glomps me. Trouble is, the glomp never lasts for long enough to finish anything. Just how do people finish novels without automuse?
I plan to spend at least one hour in April writing inside a blanket fort. The tenting possibilities of my bedroom are intriguing.
*Starts charting a flannel course through the stars*
It probably won't be anything too epic, though.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 16, 2013 18:04:59 GMT -5
I'd like to answer 'how to finish a novel' with something about chains, but the real answer is pretty mundane. You just put your butt in the chair and keep writing until you get to the end.
By updating the definition of 'the end' as you go, that gets you all the way to a published novel.
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 17, 2013 0:59:09 GMT -5
Sorry, that was rhetorical. But yes. Butt in chair. That's what automuse is for. XD
*dies laughing*
I think the only thing funnier than Henry discomfited by one of the Narrator's plot holes is the sight of Henry discomfited when confronted by the sight of a tacky googly eyed gunmetal gray tin can android in a slightly-too-big-falling-off-the-shoulder-toga version of herself, like a sick parody of a Ralph McQuarrie creation[1]: Automuse 9000.
Automuse never leaves the side of my desk, does she? Oh, Henry, you thought you could just leave me hanging and not find that I had...taken measures?
So...yes. Camp NaNo Prep Step One: Procure robotic muse.
[1]Ralph McQuarrie was the guy who designed R2D2 and C3PO, as well as did the illustrations for Isaac Asimov's robot stories.
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Post by marielaurent2223 on Mar 17, 2013 16:30:07 GMT -5
I am going to be comfortable with a blanket or sitting in a chair while writing my novels or Fanfics in April.
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 17, 2013 16:54:22 GMT -5
A very good point, Marie.
Agent's Camp NaNo Prep List - The Mundane. The Magic.
1. Procure robotic muse. (Magic)
2. Blanket. (Mundane)
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 17, 2013 17:35:40 GMT -5
One blanket may not be enough for me - those look far too much like snow showers drifting down from the mountains.
I guess summer must be over.
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 17, 2013 17:51:48 GMT -5
Actually, it's about time for me to start shedding. Summer will start soon for me.
Somehow, summer writing just doesn't work as well for me as fall/winter writing. I just never get anywhere unless the weather is horrible. Then again, I prefer gloom, clouds, rain, storms, thunder, lightning, cold, etc., and I don't like clear skies and sunshine. Well, it's very pretty to look at, but I just can't take the heat.
Also, the bad weather is more dramatic. :-)
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Post by nanogeekette on Mar 17, 2013 20:41:15 GMT -5
Anyone planning on sleeping in a real tent or cabin? Converting your bed into a tent? Making a giant pillow fort? If I even dare make some sort of pillow/blanket thingy fort, either Gracie will take it over or the cat will destroy it. xD I am, however, planning to clean out a spot in the playhouse/my mother's library to use. It's not insulated and though there's a small A/C unit installed in there, it will be hot in there from time to time, so it'll be like camping in a way.  |
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Post by marielaurent2223 on Mar 18, 2013 0:31:33 GMT -5
I am going to work on more than one project for Camp and for the rest of April of next month soon.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 22, 2013 15:05:16 GMT -5
Well, according to the sidebar I have 8 days and 17 hours to figure out what I'm doing next month.
Options so far:
1. Hang around here and PlotMo, doing the same things I always do.
2. Add more words to Doom.
3. Same as 2, only with Dispersion.
4. Start some other random thing instead.
5. Take the month off and do nothing at all.
Leaning towards 1 or 3 right now, because Toby and I are unexpectedly not on speaking terms.
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Post by nanogeekette on Mar 23, 2013 21:59:39 GMT -5
I have so much outlining to do for my three projects and I just GAH! But I am determined to find the time, despite my chores, schoolwork, and other usual life things.
Which reminds me, I need to go hang out over at PlotMo.....
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