RSS NaNoWriMo Days 4 and 5
Filed in NaNoWriMo2007Day four was hard: a real struggle. When I get stuck, I start talking to myself: asking myself in the novel what I think the character’s motivation is. But it really went slowly and with a fight. She ended up under a bridge with a bunch of newspaper clippings, but I still hadn’t figured out what the clippings said.
Day five was easier. The solution: introduce a new character. You can spend several hundred words describing what they look like and where they are from and how they found you in the first place. By the time you’ve done that the next few paragraphs suggest themselves. Right now my vampire lady has just killed someone by accident — she’s a no kill vampire — and is not best pleased with the idea. She’s also found, in a tabloid paper, an account of a girl who used to be a vampire and got cured. And now she’s going to go and see what that’s all about. So day five, the story just wrote itself.
I’m still hovering round about the minimum.
Does anyone know how to manually add friends to one’s list? I can go to their profile if I know the number, but I can’t do it by name.
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7 Comments, Comment or Ping
katster (14 comments.)
The tech problems are insane this year. They’ve shut down the author search because it just kills the site, so the only way to add people is to either hunt them down on the forums (to get to their profile page) or get them to give you their number. (Luckily, a profile link accomplishes this.)
I wish it were easier, but it’s just been that kind of month.
-kat
Nov 6th, 2007
Sherrie (33 comments.)
Ooooooooooo I love the idea of adding a character to get extra lines.
And I have more or less given up on the website. :-P
Nov 6th, 2007
Kango (3 comments.)
Dunno why, but you ladies remind me of the AbsoluteWrite forums. I used to lurk around there a long time back, and you talk just like they do on the forums there. Never could understand how you can churn out a book in so short a time. I’ve been planning to write one for well over 4 years now….
Nov 7th, 2007
pussreboots (156 comments.)
I always hover around the minimum too. I’m just barely a day ahead of schedule.
Nov 7th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
That’s too bad, but I can really relate! Hope it eases, but that’s the price of their enormous success, I guess.
Nov 8th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
Yeah, if in doubt, describe someone/something/somewhen. :-P Even if it’s random and spurious. By the time you’re done some actual plot might suggest itself.
Nov 8th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
I haven’t done my second bout of writing tonight, so I’m a little under a day behind now. No biggie. I will catch up. :)
Nov 8th, 2007
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