Eri's Nano Thread

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She speaks!

Yeah, I guess this is my Nano thread. I tried to come up with some kind of whimsical adjective that starts with 'e' for my title, but I couldn't think of anything. Suggestions are appreciated.

This thread will probably be me ranting about what could I ever be thinking, 50,000 words in a month? What kind of a sick person would come up with this - heck, what kind of a sick person would ATTEMPT this stupid, insane ---

And then I'll finish and talk about how wonderful NaNo is and it's a great experience and Nano '07 here I come! =DD

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Goals for NaNo 2006

In my past two years doing 'the nano', my main problem has been sticking to a plot. In the first year my plot burned out after about 20,000 words, so I had to switch the entire viewpoint of the novel so that I could finish.

In Nano '05, I had a great plot which I really liked and I was excited about. But then the main character switched...and the setting switched...and before I know it my plot was gone like a rug pulled out from under my feet and I ended up with a crappy plot and yet another horrid novel.

So this year I just hope to stick with my plot through out all 30 days and 50,000 words.

The Plot She Claims She's Going to Stick with for 30 Days and 50,000 Words?

What if you lived in the world where the union of man and woman was not a choice...but an obligation?

What if, by your eighteenth birthday...you were required to find a husband?

For Jo Rose, this is a reality. She pushed away the only person who ever loved her, and when her eighteenth birthday came around she was not married, and therefore 'matched' with a less than suitable man for her to be wed to, as local customs called for. On her wedding day, she fled the chapel and never stopped running. She found a group of like-minded young women and hid out with them for nearly two years. Though her life was a complicated web of secrecy and lies, she didn't mind because she wasn't being forced into something that she did not want.

That was, until the day that she met Devlin...and everything changed.

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...and then she realied that that plot just isn't going to work. ^^;;

So I'm going to start this Nano as I've started every other - no plot, just a slim idea of what I want.

This year? A cross-country roadtrip between a brother and a sister in a red '67 Chevy pick-up.

[Ebil]

Aww, why won't the plot work?! It sounded cool

[Belle]

*hugs Eri* You can do it. ^_^

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evilhamster13 said:

Aww, why won't the plot work?! It sounded cool

Haha, glad to hear that you liked it. ^_^ it will definitely be a non-Nano project for me, but I need a lot of elbow room to go wherever I want during my Nanos, and I love that plot so much I don't want it "tarnished"...in a sense. XD It's hard to explain.

And thanks, Belle! ^_^

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So far I'm actually kind of happy with my story. Of course, this is always how it starts out - by the middle I'll have run out steam on my plot, so I'll throw in something completely random like a talking lawn gnome or an alien baby just so I can finish. XD

But so far the story is about three siblings - two brothers, Jensen and Dustin, and their younger sister, Holly. When Holly was little their mother died, and they grew up with only their Dad, who was a REALLY screwed up guy. Dustin and Holly were basically raised by their older brother Jensen.

Now, both Jensen and Dustin went to work in the police force with their father, and Holly got a scholarship to college. Two weeks before she was to leave, Jensen was shot and killed. She could see that her family was starting to fall apart, but she decided to leave for school anyway, because at that time her dreams were more important to her.

She was in her junior year when she got a call from Dustin, who said that her Dad died and he needed her to come home and help him sort some things out.

Whenever they were young and their father was being his drunken self, Jensen would try and calm them down by telling them a story about going on a cross-country road trip.

So that's exactly what they decided to do - skip their father's funeral and go on their cross country road trip.

Now they're in the middle of a deserted road arguing about nothing, which is a great wordcount booster. =D

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Go Eriiii! *hugs*

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Thanks, Cyr! ^_^

Unfortunately, I didn't get anything written yesterday because everything was spinning and punching out words wasn't exactly my first priority. x_o

However, I've gotten the spinning thing under control (for the most part) so I'm going to work on making that up tonight...or at least getting my word count for today done. I have three tests tomorrow, my brain is sore.

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Manged to punch out enough word-age last night to hit 10,012 words. I was really happy with myself.

Woke up this morning having lost sleep and repeatedly mentally smacked myself over the head.

I also managed to get about 250 words in during Spanish class today, because my crazed teacher decided to put on some random movie about Mexican culture which I ignored. Classroom was a little bit dark, but the seemingly-scary Mexican music was actually very soothing and helped me to write faster. XD

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Last night I decided to start some serious writing, seeing as I've been lagging behind.

It took two Poptarts, about thirty mini-marshmallows, a Diet Coke, and a cup of coffee but I made it until one am and broke 18k.

The problem is I got bored at about 12:30 and decided to start switching things around in my plot to get me to write faster which isn't really a bad thing but now I kind of need to figure out where my plot is going.

At about 12:45 I accidentally killed one of my main characters before I realized that I need her around, so unfortunately she was brought back to life. I do plan on killing her, though! I made her too cool, and she's really bugging me.

In case you can't tell, I'M REALLY TIRED AND RAMBLING!

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Lawl, I would never be able to kill my charecters. I get too attached. Even to the annoying ones. XD

[Nut]

I could kill a character if I had made her quickly and wasn't too attached yet. If not, I could always bring back her ghost. XD

I hope going with the flow of your story takes you where you want to be, Eri. ^_^

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Haha, thanks you two! Yeah, I'm kind of evil, killing characters comes far too easily to me.

...and if I can't kill them, I just proceed to give them mental breakdowns! =D

Dustin heard his sister before he saw her – the panting and the sound of the soles of her shoes hitting the ground as she ran. He pulled his head out from under the hood, looking up in concern. “Holls?” he said, and with a cry she flew into his arms, burying her face in his chest and crying so hard that her body heaved up and down.

“Holls? Holls, what happened?” he said, but he didn’t get an answer. Her knees wobbled and her legs slowly gave out from under her. The two of them collapsed to the ground together, Dustin keeping a strong hold on his sister’s shoulder’s the entire time.

“Holly? Holly?”

It was there, in Monterey, Tennessee, that Holly Broderick began to fall apart.

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You are so evil.

I LOVE YOU! *huggle-glomp*