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Post by Tiger on Nov 2, 2010 8:32:04 GMT -5
Guuuys I'm getting all self-conscious and ridiculous about my nano. D: D= Bad Sock! No self-consciousness allowed! Keep writing! |
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Post by Sock on Nov 2, 2010 8:32:54 GMT -5
Guuuys I'm getting all self-conscious and ridiculous about my nano. D: D= Bad Sock! No self-consciousness allowed! Keep writing! I knooow. I'm terrible. I'm going to keep writing, but it's definitely a hindrance. I also wish the NaNo site was up, and that my best friend was online so she could help me out with this story. D: *whine* |
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Post by Zylaa on Nov 2, 2010 8:40:20 GMT -5
D: Don't do that! NaNo is the place to write without fear of what anyone will think. We're all blundering through this together.
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Post by Sock on Nov 2, 2010 8:41:44 GMT -5
Haha, true indeed! And I suppose there's always the second draft.
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Post by Zylaa on Nov 2, 2010 12:52:36 GMT -5
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Post by Chao on Nov 2, 2010 16:40:49 GMT -5
Yay, managed to make it through the second day and reach the day's goal ^^
And I actually found that what I wrote yesterday was not as bad as I had feared. Which has me looking forward to tomorrow as tomorrow I am going to write about a visit to IKEA *loves IKEA*
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Post by Sen on Nov 2, 2010 17:53:43 GMT -5
Well, I've written quite a bit so far, except I still don't have a name for my main character. ^_^;; I guess that's not too important at the moment, but it still bugs me to write "MC" instead of her name. Maybe I'll just make things easy and actually name her MC.  |
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Post by Celestial on Nov 2, 2010 17:59:16 GMT -5
Well, I've written quite a bit so far, except I still don't have a name for my main character. ^_^;; I guess that's not too important at the moment, but it still bugs me to write "MC" instead of her name. Maybe I'll just make things easy and actually name her MC. xD Go for it. I'm referring to my MC as 'the girl' due to unhappened character development so I think anything goes. You can always edit it if you come up with a better name. For now on, just get writing! |
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Post by storm on Nov 2, 2010 20:26:36 GMT -5
My main character's currently called Candice, in reference to a blank canvas... Yeah. Still have to sculpt her out of some rough writer's bronze (or Storm's brain cells, if you will. Unfortunately made of bronze, not gold. D:).
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Nov 2, 2010 21:36:16 GMT -5
Love it!  |
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Post by be2aware on Nov 2, 2010 21:47:18 GMT -5
Just watched that video twice...well, I listened to it the second time. Summarizes the general feeling behind Nano(For me, exactly. I assume for others at least partially.) This song was awesome!
But in my case, i don't just think the story is terrible. What comes out on my computer is a horrible rendition of what was in my head. Short stories are so much easier.
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Post by Speck on Nov 2, 2010 22:04:23 GMT -5
So... I still haven't even written a page. =(
I just need to sit down and force myself to write. Blaaaah.
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Post by Butterfly on Nov 2, 2010 23:09:20 GMT -5
I'm behind as I expected, though I must say I'm at least being more consistent than last year. I've at least been over 1000 both days. It's quite an interesting experience hand writing this year. The only downside is that if I want to post excerpts, I have to type it all up. |
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Post by Avery on Nov 2, 2010 23:40:54 GMT -5
Sooo I'm having an issue that has stopped me dead in my tracks-- how to reveal information to my character and the reader. Copied from the Nano forum: See, this story somehow ended up in first person... and the narrator doesn't know much of anything when a main aspect of the plot is concerned, so neither does the reader. MC is from Earth and has absolutely no idea that the fantasy land she gets taken to about 10k in exists in the first place-- let alone her role in it, the rules of it (magic, etc.), nor anything else whatsoever. Additionally, she thought MC2 was dead for over ten years, and so when MC2 shows up, MC1 is ridiculously confused (turns out MC2 was actually in aforementioned Fantasy Land, not dead at all).
My problem is... I have no idea how to reveal all of this information, either to MC1 or the reader. The only thing I can think of so far is pretty much just an info dump where another character literally just explains everything to her in one wordy section. But that seems so clunky and awkward, like it'll completely mess up the flow of the story. But I have no idea how to reveal everything in any other way. I simply can't figure out how to hold off on telling MC1 and the reader information that is pretty critical to the plot slowly over time, in narrative as opposed to dialogue. And honestly, it's driving me crazy. I do NOT want to revert to info dump with 2,000 straight words of a character just telling MC1 everything... but how else do I write it? What are other ways to reveal information to the reader and MC1 without just throwing it all at them at once, but at the same time not keeping very pertinent info held back for an extended period of time? (The stuff I need to reveal isn't the purpose of the plot, if that makes sense-- meaning, it's mostly just background, world building stuff. And MC1 really needs to be clued in to it sooner than later for the actual heart of the plot to get going...) HELP ME GUYZZZ~ |
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Post by Speck on Nov 3, 2010 0:04:50 GMT -5
Carrie: have you read The Hunger Games series? While Katniss (the main character and narrator) does know quite a bit, information is still revealed at a nice pace throughout the series. The way that information is revealed is through a number of Katniss' flashbacks. I know it doesn't apply too well to what you're doing right now, but I thought that info might be of use?
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