Pyro's NaNoWriMo--Excerpt Up

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Well, this is my first time participating in NaNo. I'm very excited. I also realize that by the end of November, I shall be a sleepless zombie, but hey, that's alright by me. If I write 1,500-2,000 words a day, I should be fine, especially because I can write a lot more on the weekends, and I don't think I have any big forensics tournaments on any November weekends (thank God).

I do have some ideas for the plot of my story, which I'm outlining on my laptop. I'll put them and my other ideas in the next post.

Random: I really enjoyed thinking of my NaNo name. It's spiroscribo, or "I breathe, I write". Because word order in Latin doesn't really matter, it could also be written the other way around. Both breathing and writing take top priority for me.

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Plot and Outlines:

General Plot: With the help of highly advanced technology, the people of [worldname] have seemingly achieved most of man's greatest dreams. Experiments on human flight have been conducted--successfully. Breakthroughs on cloning, disease control, and cybernetics are hovering on the horizon. In other places, ancient magic still breathes and thrives, adding its own variations to scientific advances. People are on the brink of a new and better era. And then a team of elite mathematicians and scientists discover that the apocalypse will hit in one year.

--A group of characters will have to use both technology and magic to see if there is a way to stop or avert the end of the world.

Characters

Helix: A thirteen/fourteen-year-old cyborg boy with the power to destroy the world.

Saevira 'Sae' Animiel: A Scholar from the city who seeks both information about the end of the world and revenge.

Saren Derivel: A mathematician/technician who discovers the end of the world and becomes driven to find a way to stop it.

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Excerpts

SPOILER: Click to show

Excerpt I: Beginning

He had become a mathematician to explain life, to create it on the page before him in endless chains of numbers and formulas, and it made it all the more bitter an irony that he discovered only its destruction.

Seconds earlier, those seconds had been just that—seconds. Now, if he were right, they would become as the pounding of a struggling heart, each marking another inexorable movement towards the end. Saren felt numb as his fingers moved over the keyboard, losing their calculated rhythm of before and tapping out complex codes and program commands frantically. Even if his mind had gone blank, his body was on autopilot, searching for a way out.

“Hey, Saren, what’ve you got there?” The team leader, Alan, leaned over his shoulder with an easy grin, eyes roving over the computer screen. Saren ignored his friend and rechecked the numbers on the screen. They were all correct. “Heavens above.” Saren didn’t need to look up to know that Alan’s eyes would have gone wide and frightened along with the whisper that confirmed Saren’s suspicions.

“It’s the Final Spiral,” Saren said, voice strangely detached. The darkness gaped up at the two of them from the middle of a strange simulated pattern of numbers. The numbers spiraled slowly down into the hole, and Saren’s first absurd thought was that the pattern had been aptly named. “It’s like a black hole,” he breathed, gazing at the gently rotating numbers.

“What experiment are you monitoring?” Alan’s voice was tight and loud, causing several other members of the team to look up from their posts. Saren swallowed.

“I’ve been watching the fourth dimension simulation,” he said. “Time.”

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1764 words for today, and they're all pretty poor XD I'm not good at starting stories, though for once I do like my opening sentence. Look, Ma, an excerpt! :3

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Past 2,000 words. Pretty poor for a Friday evening D:

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Pyro's NaNo--after actually working on it today, and still about 4k words behind schedule--is OVER NINE THOUSAND!

*brick'd*

Actually, it's over ten thousand 10036 for today's end.

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Heya, Pyro. I really liked your excerpt. I haven't personally read much along the lines of science fiction before, but I still found it really cool and interesting.

And I love your username.

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Thanks! ^_^ I'm worried about the interesting-ness of my story, but I'm more concerned with finishing the story and then going back and editing, lol. It's actually not supposed to be science fiction...just futuristic. I think.

Thanks, me too XD

In other news...I'M PAST 40k!!!! I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO MAKE IT!!!!

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I'm at 46,009. I'll definitely hit 50k tomorrow and hope to every power imaginable that my flashdrive doesn't fail carrying it to the main computer.

Good thing I have five copies :3 And blank CD-roms.

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WON.

DEAD.

AWESOME.