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Today's prompt was about making bad choices. I moved from Dawn's story over to my "Funny Thing Happened" story - this takes place after a family of 3 (plus dog) were teleported across the universe to another planet - and a teenager's attempt to be "normal" again. ===== Note: all stuff written here is mine (warts and all). It's probably first draftish stuff, and hasn't seen the inside of an editor's head yet, so be warned. And also, please don't steal it. Thanks. ==== ( Here's today's scribbles. ) |
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I didn't feel like posting yesterday. Anyway... =====
In starting this writing session, I just let my fingers type what they wanted and then let it morph slowly into a recognizable scene. Like I said, this is raw, unedited, stream of consciousness sort of stuff. If it ever sees the light of day elsewhere, it will be edited... but this is basically an exercise in getting to know my MC better. My WIP is told in a lot of flashback - from the present back to the 1940's. This section is in the 70's - and I don't know as if it will make it into the book at all. But it's good for me to know that this happened. I know my MC better now.
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I totally ignored Laurie Halse Anderson's writing prompt and kept working on my Dawn book. Need to do some more research here - but I like where this is going. =====
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For those just seeing this, I am joining Laurie Halse Anderson ( halseanderson) in WFMAD (Write Fifteen Minutes a Day) The writing prompt today was use one (or both) of two odd words Laurie had pulled out of the dictionary. I continued from yesterday's WFMAD thoughts. So, again this is for a book I'm writing on growing up at Los Alamos during the Trinity test in 1945. ===== |
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Prompt today was to write about your writing area. This is for a book I'm writing on growing up at Los Alamos during the Trinity test in 1945. Since my main character is a writer, I thought I'd write about HER writing area. ===== |
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Prompt today was to write about making a meal - man I've got some weird things in my head. This is set in yet another story I'm working on called "The Sideways Universe." ===== |
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Prompt from Laurie Halse Anderson was to look at a yearbook page (she had one posted) and write whatever feelings it evoked. I looked at one of my Jr. Hi yearbook pages - oh so helpfully posted on Facebook. It's here. I'm the one in the upper left corner. And it brought out some good emotions. =====
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WFMAD = Write Fifteen Minutes A Day. Two rules: I'm taking the challenge that Laurie Halse Anderson has put out there and am going to attempt to write 15 minutes a day every day. I may post bits of it here. I know this is my "NaNoWriMo persona" but hey - it's a free account I've already got set up so why not? =====
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I am claiming the "...and" badge because I have quoted song lyrics (twice) and am writing out contractions in this draft. I'll put back the contractions in the next draft, but for the wordcount, I'm grabbing all I can. Yeah, it's cheap but so am I. Anyway, if you want to see another scene or so of what I'm doing... ( click here )
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I almost forgot. I decided that I've earned a badge. That's the "Caffeine Abuse" badge - earned by "consuming dangerous amounts of coffee, tea, or caffeinated soda in your quest for 50K. Yesterday was election day - and Starbucks was giving out free "tall" coffee to anyone who voted. I have an official mug from them - it's "vente" size, and I brought it along hoping that I could (a) do my part to save the environment from one more used paper cup and (b) get more coffee that way. It worked. I went to five different Starbucks in under 6 hours - with laptop in hand. I consumed coffee at each location and jammed away at 3K+ words while under that influence. And I've learned one thing. I've decided that I really don't like Starbucks coffee. Even free. It tastes burned to me. But, I kept going around to get my free coffees and free electricity for the laptop all day. So... is that good enough caffeine abuse to earn the badge? I think so. In another note - if I got my "aha" moment before Nano started does that count? I'm not so sure about that one... but I'll take it if it's all right with everyone else.
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I was way too busy this weekend to get any writing done, so I'm a little behind, but not badly so. I'm at 6023 words when I should be just over 8300. Not bad... yesterday was a 3K day, today was a bit over 2K. And some solid scenes written too. I'm getting a good handle on my main character. Things are going to change, of course, but I'm liking her - and I don't like what's happening to her. Which is good. I shouldn't like the crap that's going on - it's the conflict that needs to be resolved. Anyway... ( Here's a couple of scenes I wrote yesterday: ) Oh... forgot to post this. My novel's name is "The Labyrinth of the Mind."
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Got in just over 1,000 words today and most of them are crap and will come out during editing... but it's a start. I wanted to get more done but family and party considerations took precedence. |
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I'm starting to dream in my main character's head. It is not a happy place, as my MC is on anti-depressants and other mental medications. I wanted to get down thoughts of a scene that I dreamed before they slip away Good lord, that's a scary scene to me. I do NOT want to be in my MC's head like this all month. |
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I was silly and ordered some stuff from the Nano Store - got me a T-shirt and the Nifty Merit Badges. I'm setting myself the goal of earning all 10 in November. What do they look like and how do you earn 'em you ask?? Well, you could just click on the link above - it's all explained there - but here's my contribution to the chaos that is our reality. Text is taken from the paper insert that comes with the merit badges.( I use a cut-tag because I care about your friends page length )
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Time for me to fire up this blog again - I'm tackling Nanowrimo again. Should be easier than last time (2005) when I was trying to work a full time job, be in a play AND do Nano. |
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as of 9:15pm, Central time, 11/26/05: 35,315. AND... I left myself in the middle of a scene so I can go back to it tomorrow... I'm dead now. AND... it's a "dream sequence" sort of scene (actually, a "coma sequence") where the main character is trying to decide whether or not to let herself "cross the great pond" or not. Yes, the pond is named "Styx" but only because that's a great band... yeah, right. Need some words, kill a character off. Send them on the path to heaven. Describe it. In Tolkien-like detail. You know the "picture is worth a thousand words, and Peter Jackson ALMOST got enough frames of scenery film in the movies to cover all the words" sort of descriptions. Don't know how much of this will be cut out again in NaNo-Ed-Mo, but who knows... it may stay. It's pure creative panic now. Oh, and I had to steal this userpic. It SO fits!
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Ok... going a little better. According to my MS Word word-count, I'm at 23,061. According to the text file verified count, I'm at 23,085. Pretty good, considering that I was at 19K this morning. Now I just gotta keep up this pace for the next 7 days.... |
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No way I'm going to finish... I'm at 20K words. How in the world do I expect myself to actually finish when I've got so much homework to grade over Thanksgiving!! Why did I do this to myself? Why am I still trying? Why do I care about this stupid novel and these characters? Why didn't I write more yesterday???? |
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For those interested, the word count has jumped to 9,631. I'm only 1 week behind now. Which is doing pretty good for me, even though we're only 2 weeks into November. :) Continuing with the insanity, here's ( Chapter 2 ) |
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I'm up to 7K words! I know I'm "supposed" to be at 20K words, but hey, I was at 4K yesterday. I almost doubled my word count in 1 day! Woot! I'm proud of those hard fought-for words too! I wish they just flowed like water out of me and onto the electronic page, but they don't. It's sometimes like pulling teeth. But today it was a bit easier. I was stuck at one point, just staring at the screen, when I had a sudden inspiration of what my final chapter should be. I jumped to the end, wrote that chapter quick and then went back to where I was stuck. Bam! 3K words in 3+ hours. That rocks! Anywhoo... I'm stealing this idea from ( Chapter One of 'Dawn Came From the Wrong Direction' )
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accomplished
cheerful
bouncy