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Post by Tam on Nov 2, 2009 2:26:34 GMT -5
Okay, I'm pleased with myself. =D 2528 words, and it's only the first day. I was panicking because I had only written six hundred words by nine o'clock at night, and nothing at all since one in the morning -- but I finally got on a roll. Yay.
I'm beginning to wonder when would be a good time to end this chapter. How long do you guys usually make your chapters? And, similarly, how many chapters do your NaNovels usually end up?
I'm mostly just curious.
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Post by Rikku on Nov 2, 2009 2:55:03 GMT -5
^__^ Yay for you! Always good to start good.
... What are these chapters of which you speak? >.>; I just jump around viewpoints. As a rule, though, when I'm writing chaptered books, I generally make them roughly 5k per chapter (without quite knowing why). Maybe just ... end it where it feels right? Or on a snappy line of dialogue?
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 2, 2009 10:04:08 GMT -5
2528 is a good number. =D
Chapters? Chapters? I believe last year's NaNo had.. um, two. But we don't speak of last year's novel. >.>;
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Post by Shadaras on Nov 2, 2009 11:05:43 GMT -5
I just shove chapter breaks wherever it feels right and do my best to keep every chapter over 1k. xD
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Post by Trilly (18426 words) on Nov 2, 2009 12:54:26 GMT -5
Umm...most of my chapters ended up being 1600 words long, because I pretty much did a chapter a day. ^^;
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 13:32:35 GMT -5
Much better than my 1K by yesterday night. XD I'm catching up today. Argh, this intro is horribly, horribly written...it makes no sense even to ME. >.< Whatever. But nice job on the words so far. ^^
Chapters...um, I don't really bother. XD I just have things split up into sections where it's needed, whether because of a change in location, time skip, change in viewpoint, or other things. I'm going to go back and do chapters later.
I think I'm about the same as Trilly, though. ^^ Though maybe 1-2 days worth of writing for a chapter.
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Post by Tam on Nov 2, 2009 23:03:22 GMT -5
Ha ha, your lack of chapters makes me feel better. I hadn't found a good spot to end it yet, and I was beginning to worry it was getting too long. An opportunity finally presented itself at just over 2k, though, so yay. =D Excerpt time, because I technically haven't posted any new writing here for weeks. ^__^ "''THE HELL PUT MY BOXERS IN THE FREEZER?"
I stopped dead in my tracks, worried for a moment that I'd walked into the wrong apartment. But Ink just walked around me, grinning at the sounds of laughter, now positively shaking the floor.
"It took you long enough to find them," Ink yelled over the ruckus, reaching the end of the hallway and turning left into what looked like a kitchen area.
Crevette and Soleil followed, also laughing. Soleil gestured over her shoulder for me to come as well. I did so, but only against a rather strong instinct. I passed two closed doors, one of which was plastered with signs proclaiming the nicknames of its occupants, and then a dilapidated couch that had, for some reason, been left in the hallway, creating a path for walking only slightly wider than my shoulders. A huge, marker-decorated banner was taped to the wall opposite the couch. It read, "Welcome to the City," followed by a lopsided smilie face.
At that moment, a door slightly in front of me burst open and a large, partially-clothed figure bounded out of it and down the hallway in the direction of the kitchen, laughing loudly. Terrified, I flattened myself against the wall, but no one else came hurtling at me. I was now quite alone, although the sounds of several people could now be heard from the room at the end of the hall. My sleep-deprived brain could think of little else to do but follow them.
No one immediately noticed me when I entered the kitchen, but I could hardly blame them. A skinny boy was standing beside the fridge, staring wide-eyed at what must at one point have been his boxers. They had, however, evidently been soaked in water and lain flat in the freezer so that they now resembled oddly-shaped frisbees.
I was smiling despite myself, and, realizing this, I tried to hide my expression. As I did, though, I noticed that the boy in front of the freezer didn't look angry. On the contrary, he looked like he might have been amused if it weren't for the fact that he had just been the victim of a cryogenic underwear massacre. Open-mouthed, he observed the state of his boxers one at a time, much to the mirth of his onlookers.
The boy who had almost knocked me over in the hallway slung an arm around the other boy's shoulders, still laughing giddily. Despite his muscular build and the small goatee he sported, his face was round and boyish, his expression as lighthearted as a child's.
"I tink you should put dis on you," he said, fanning the air with one of the pairs of frozen shorts.
As everyone cheered, the skinny boy carefully creased one pair, opened them up with a faint crackling noise, and placed them on his head, where they stood erect like the world's worst hat.
"No no no," the bigger boy said, "I said you should put dis on you. We need to see your sexy butt, Treller."
The boy called Treller laughed with some degree of desperation. "I don't think they're gonna go on," he said.
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Post by Kathleen on Nov 3, 2009 1:18:10 GMT -5
Actually, I like it an awful lot. xD I'm still laughing. <3
.. If it weren't going to sound arrogant, I'd say don't worry anyway, because nothing could beat mine for strangeness. xD
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Post by Rikku on Nov 3, 2009 1:58:43 GMT -5
Awfully different from anything I normally read, but what I lack in experience of analysing this genre/mood/thingmajigabob, I more than make up for in enthusiasm, and enthusiasm says it's awesome! =D I love the quirkiness, looking at the world sideways. I get the feeling it gets stranger.
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Post by Sq on Nov 3, 2009 2:32:20 GMT -5
I love the excerpt. The characters, like...pop out of the text. =D
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Post by Shadaras on Nov 3, 2009 2:58:51 GMT -5
<3 ...those characters somehow remind me of my friends. That is utterly awesome.
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Post by Tam on Nov 4, 2009 12:27:56 GMT -5
Actually, I like it an awful lot. xD I'm still laughing. <3 .. If it weren't going to sound arrogant, I'd say don't worry anyway, because nothing could beat mine for strangeness. xD *glees* I respect that. xD Perhaps we can stage a month-long competition for the title. Awfully different from anything I normally read, but what I lack in experience of analysing this genre/mood/thingmajigabob, I more than make up for in enthusiasm, and enthusiasm says it's awesome! =D I love the quirkiness, looking at the world sideways. I get the feeling it gets stranger. Yeah, no kidding, I never read or write anything like this. But it's recently come to my attention that I have very little writerly versatility to flaunt, so this is... erm... a learning curve for me, of sorts. I like that line in regards to this story. "Looking at the world sideways." It works. =D And oh yes, it certainly does. It certainly does. I love the excerpt. The characters, like...pop out of the text. =D <3 Thank you! And that's awesome, because I technically have, like, ten main characters and I've been trying desperately to sufficiently distinguish each of them from the others so that it reads naturally. Or natural-ish-ly. <3 ...those characters somehow remind me of my friends. That is utterly awesome. ...There's probably a reason for that. xD Not that they're actually somehow based off of your friends in particular or anything weird like that, but that they're actually based on more general... er.... You know what, I'm just going to shut up now. And my goal for today is to hit 8000 words, since I've now come to realize that my lab days, Tuesday and Thursday, are going to be nearly impossible to hit my quota on and I need a buffer to account for these upcoming shortcomings. Yikes. Wish me luck. ^^; |
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Post by Shadaras on Nov 4, 2009 15:49:45 GMT -5
<3 ...those characters somehow remind me of my friends. That is utterly awesome. ...There's probably a reason for that. xD Not that they're actually somehow based off of your friends in particular or anything weird like that, but that they're actually based on more general... er.... You know what, I'm just going to shut up now. And my goal for today is to hit 8000 words, since I've now come to realize that my lab days, Tuesday and Thursday, are going to be nearly impossible to hit my quota on and I need a buffer to account for these upcoming shortcomings. Yikes. Wish me luck. ^^; xD ...crazy friends everywhere have similar characteristics. Is that kinda what you were trying to say? *has a goal of writing 8000 words today* *is probably rather insane* |
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Post by Rikku on Nov 4, 2009 23:29:30 GMT -5
... Aww, Shade, I'll never catch up to you at this rate. xD Not that I'm aiming for 100k but still.
And I (guiltily) felt somewhat better for being a little ahead of you, Tamia, and then I remembered, oh, yeah, she actually probably doesn't have anywhere near as much spare time as me! so that was a moment of Rikkufail, I think. xD I need to worry less about wordcount and more about how darn fun this all is.
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Post by Shadaras on Nov 4, 2009 23:45:27 GMT -5
Consider that I'm using pretty much all of my free time for NaNo and I'm not going to succeed in hitting that many words for today. xD ...but yeah. It's all in the fun. I find it fun to race Amnei, therefore I am doing so and getting a lot of words out of it. But I can see how it'd be fun to move at a slower pace where you can actually plan out what's happening ahead of time, too.
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