Goosh's Nano 2010

[Goosh]

This will be my fourth attempt at NaNoWrimo, and hopefully my first win. I think not having to share a computer might help. If inspiration strikes, I can let it make contact. I will have a hard time keeping from getting distracted, though. >> We'll see how it goes, but I'm hopeful.

Not really sure at all what I'm going to be writing. Watch this space.

[Rikku]

=D I hope you will write something interesting! Because interesting hings are interesting. And I am sure you will. And distractions are tricky, yes! But the trick is just to sit down (and make sure you are not browsing the internet PARTICULARLY TV-tropes) and write lots, really. I presume. And yes! Good luck!

[Goosh]

Oct 8, 2010 23:48:51 GMT -5 Rikku said:

=D I hope you will write something interesting! Because interesting hings are interesting. And I am sure you will. And distractions are tricky, yes! But the trick is just to sit down (and make sure you are not browsing the internet PARTICULARLY TV-tropes) and write lots, really. I presume. And yes! Good luck!

<3 This is sound advice.

Okay okay here is where I am at right now:

I'm not sure what genre I want to write. I sort of want to write a humourous story set in a more generic fantasy world, but I also like the idea of writing a fantasy set in the present day. And then another part of me wants to try getting away from fantasy entirely for once, and writing a sci-fi story or something.

I feel like until I pick a genre and stick with it, I won't be able to come up with any major plot details.

dfkjliuonlxkgdsyjthbferng advice please.

[Jove]

I don't like genres much. I think you should write whatever, be it fantasy or comedy or dramatic modern day humorous fantasy IN SPACE and then determine what it is after the fact. /probably terrible advice

Nevertheless whatever you decide to write I will be looking forward to it. <3

[Goosh]

NO IDEAS

HELP

[Amneiger]

Oct 16, 2010 19:42:22 GMT -5 Goosh said:

NO IDEAS

HELP

Pull some random pictures off the Internet and string together a story using them?

[Rikku]

D:! *hurriedly looks through 'notes' file*

... Um. Looking forward to Someday. Song from the viewpoint of a volcano.Walking the Skyways. 'Through the looking-glass there's no fire'. 'miserable-looking' chicken-legged hut - "It lays kennels!"

What. xD My notes are so terribly incoherent. Er. *searches more* ... Yeah, I got nothin'. xD Good luck, though.

[Amneiger]

Oct 17, 2010 22:54:20 GMT -5 Rikku said:

"It lays kennels!"

Clearly it is the story of a robot that lays kennels because it works in a kennel factory, and how that robot found FREEDOM!


*looks through his own notes file* Hmm, a bunch of one line things that aren't one-liners. How depressing or bizarre do you want this to be?

SPOILER: Click to show

The walls of the house were too confining. The chairs and tables seemed to be brushing his legs as he barely stumbled past. There was too much furniture for him to move, darn it. He had to go out, get out of these walls.

The roof the sky seemed to be pressing down on him, confining him. He could feel himself being crushed by it. Too close. Too claustrophobic. More room. More room.

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He heard that voice, and felt like vomiting.

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…Or the way he greeted the isopods. He had first seen them in a small pool at an aquarium, where they had been sitting minding their own business, and he had leaned over the pool and addressed them. “Good day and good day and good day!” he had begun, and then he began to talk. He talked about the fares for the aquarium, and the fish he had had for lunch, and the way the clouds had been threatening rain for the past two weeks with not a drop to show for everyone’s troubles, and when they had continued to waddle about in the pool minding their own business he began to talk about bus troubles and shoe sales and the orange harvest, and when he was done with those he switched to Mandarin Chinese and began speaking to them about God.

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BE THE JONESONS. BE BIJAN.

[Chao]

Why not string your ideas together? We do have sci-fi-potential in this world (we do have a space station after all, so any adventure could happen there), and simply have a trans-dimensional-leak to introduce the character who makes you want to go into fantasy. So you have technology clashes, social clashes, possible trips to earth and all hold humour-potential...

[Goosh]

For the record all of your notes are very strange. <3 But lovely. And inspiring. So thanks.

I still haven't got anything, but I have a little more than what I had before. It's really sort of distressing because I feel really into participating this year, but nothing's really coming to me that I like. In the years before I would always have some sort of starting point that really appealed to me that I could jump off of, but now...

I think the only thing to do now is brainstorm at every waking moment for the next week. Which should be fun. In an "oh god oh god what day is it why do all my ideas suck" kind of way.

[Rikku]

... Boy do I know that feeling. xD When you were really really looking forward to NaNo, and then waited expectantly for some awesome (or, alternatively, downright bizarre but oddly intriguing) idea to edge its way cautiously into your mind, and then nothing happened. Sort of terrifying.

[Goosh]

OKAY OKAY SO HOW ABOUT:

Metropolis: a city like any other, only with superheroes and stuff.

Whenever a maniacal villain holds the mayor hostage, or a monster's rampage threatens to destroy the bridge, the citizens can be sure that one of the bold and brave heroes will save the day for the good of the world.

Unfortunately, it's all a sham.

The superheroes are all clean, pretty people trained to make their fights as dramatic but casualty-free as possible. Most of their origin stories are fabricated. Some don't even have the powers they supposedly possess.

And the monsters, the villains? Sometimes actors. But since it's easier--and more dramatic--for there to be a finishing blow, some antagonists have been created. Kidnapped. Brainwashed. All for the sake of a good show.

But who, and why? Well, when the public is grateful toward a hero, he or she cheerfully tells them to donate to one of various charities or organizations. If one examined these recipients--and was able to crack security of a much more sophisticated level than would be expected of a soup kitchen--one would find that they are all fronts, all leading back to the same shadowy financial behemoth...

But enough backstory: our tale begins when our heroine (who is nameless for now), discovers she in fact has fire-generating super powers. Eager to land herself some sort of apprenticeship, she sneaks backstage at a conference held by some supposed supers, but gets a less welcome reception that she hoped for--the heroes are decidedly uninterested, and tell her she is too young. Come back later. Hit the road.

Not one to be easily deterred, she follows one of the heroes home, the one who supposedly lives with his sidekick in an amazing fortress, only to discover him sitting alone in his apartment, watching reruns and eating a frozen dinner.

Disillusioned, our heroine decides to help stop the next great monster crisis herself. Reckless and without full knowledge of her powers, she lands herself in pretty imminent danger, until she's rescued by a mysterious figure.

He turns out to belong to a group of real heroes--people with actual powers who use them to help people. They've been working to expose the sham-heroes. Our heroine eagerly agrees to join them, and the adventure begins.

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MODERN SUPERHEROES THAT ARE ACTUALLY SHAMS?

Um. I love this?

[Rikku]

*seconds the love!*

You will have at least one major character who is a villain, yes? =D Because their side of things sounds really massively fascinating! I mean it all sounds fascinating but that more so. But all of it does really. <3 And massively fun to write, which is always a considerable plus.

[Jove]

I have no words for how awesome this idea is. So I'll just go 'SUPERHEROES YAY' and leave it at that. :3