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Post by Canela on Oct 1, 2006 11:21:14 GMT -5
As November's only a month off, I thought I'd ask who's planning to commit themselves to a month of stress and insanity this year. A few of us participated last year, and it was fun, and we had some nice little discussions going in the Scriptorium, and every last one of us who participated came up with some bloody brilliant stuff we wouldn't have thought of without the thirty-day deadline and unhealthy levels of sleep deprivation and caffiene intake.
I, for one, am probably one of the biggest NaNoWriMo advocates you'll ever meet. I had massive amounts of fun last year, and I can honestly say that due to several things that happened as a direct result of NaNo, it shaped what my life has been like for the last year. NaNoWriMo makes things happen in a way that goes far beyond writing a crappy novel in a month; and even if you don't win, what have you lost? You didn't produce a novel in a month. Big deal. Just the knowledge that you've tried, and the fact that you've forced yourself a short distance out of your comfort zone and learned to look at the world just a little differently should make up for that.
So. I want to know who's with me. And if you participated last year and aren't planning on trying again, let me know so I can glower disapprovingly in your general direction and/or harass you until you agree to come along for the ride.
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Post by Quites on Oct 1, 2006 13:57:30 GMT -5
*Raises hand wearily.*
Yeah, since I have enough crappy novel ideas to last me 'til the mid 2010's and haven't been writing enough lately, as well as what you were saying about last year's NaNo, I guess I'm in, even though I don't have nearly enough time to do this and Honors General Chemistry at the same time.
*Sigh*
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Post by Aris on Oct 1, 2006 17:29:18 GMT -5
I'm in! I'm not entirely sure what this invloves, but I enjoy massive amounts of caffeine intake and sleep deprevation!
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Oct 1, 2006 20:38:19 GMT -5
I'm in. I have no idea what I'm going to write, though. I rather want to transcribe the story of Estelle and Hunter and Meredith, a plotline developed by my friends Butterfly and Bhoomi and I over the summer-- it has swingdancing and betray and cute little Polish boys people adopt-- but I really want to do a quality job on it.
There's also an idea-seed in my head that I quite like. It seems very Diana Wynne Jones so far. I've read 'The Chronicles of Chrestomanci' too many times. ^^
Aaaand then there's Neal Stephenson's ghost in my ear, screaming about cryptography and government plots and hackers and stories with absolutely no falling action. Dang. And I also think The White House wants to be written about, though it would give me nightmares. And Alan Moore has invaded my brain, so I want something with lots of subtle little cookies and easter eggs. Though NaNo novels are rarely subtle.
I think I could write a paranoid speculative fiction pretty well. Hmm.
I have too many ideas, as always.
Oooh! Speaking of NaNo, I've been thinking of trying to get a NaNo club going at school. Recruit a few people, educate them, maybe even try to get a teacher to be a Municipal Liason, though that's unlikely. Like a writing club! Think it's feasible?
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Post by Kirukelgyr on Oct 1, 2006 21:38:42 GMT -5
Totally, TEO.
Apologies, but Furball shall be sitting out this year. She has to do a school crunch and already has a few obligations in the way of artistic persuits. Many apologies.
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Post by Quites on Oct 12, 2006 15:15:35 GMT -5
Okay, everybody go to the Scriptorium and start posting in all the 2005 threads about NaNo, but concerning your 2006 NaNo.
Move it, people!
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Post by Oz on Oct 12, 2006 22:27:46 GMT -5
What if your 2006 NaNo is your 2005 NaNo?
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Post by Quites on Oct 12, 2006 23:48:16 GMT -5
Silence, heathen. We don't need your heresy propoganda here.
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Quites on Oct 23, 2006 17:37:26 GMT -5
Okay, fine, since nobody's replying in the Scriptorium, I'll ask in here.
Tell me what your NaNo is about.
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Post by Canela on Oct 23, 2006 18:49:56 GMT -5
You already know mine, but oh well.
My MC is a muse named Tansy, who is a bit of a slacker, she's never inspired any truly great writers, artists, etc. Her rival muse, who is currently unnamed, bets Tansy that she can't turn her one unsucessful charge, a lazy starving writer-type named William, into a popular writer before a certain amount of time passes.
Problem is, William's fiancee, Lara/Adrienne (haven't decided which name suits her better) has recently broken up with him. Lara/Adrienne left William for a guy named Stephen who's recently published a book that's slowly climbing up the bestseller list. William is depressed; the last thing he wants to do is write anything.
There may also be a magical spatula, and a romantic subplot between William and a character named Gracie, who is Stephen's stepsister (or possibly cousin).
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Post by Kirukelgyr on Oct 23, 2006 21:52:17 GMT -5
Lara. Definitely. It means "famous". ^^
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Post by Canela on Oct 24, 2006 10:05:59 GMT -5
*Prods Quites and TEO*
Post yours, yo, they're good.
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Post by Quites on Oct 24, 2006 10:48:13 GMT -5
Alright, alright.
Mine... is about aliens. The basic plot goes thusly:
This alien civilization comes to Earth, basically because their planet's resources are used up and they need a new planet to milk dry. Unfortunately for them, Earth is infested with humans, and the humans aren't cooperating. So they decide they're just going to eradicate the lot of them.
Someone in some high position of authority, however, begs the alien admiral to spare some humans so we don't just get wiped out. This alien is the bored-aristocrat type, so he decides this might be fun. So he comes up with a game. He takes a number of radio transponders (dunno how many; how many should there be?) and scatters them all over the world. Then he makes the announcement that after a certain amount of time (taking suggestions on that, too) every individual with a transponder will be allowed to live. No teams, or families working together, or anything like that are allowed: just one ball to one person.
So basically, the entire world gets plunged into chaos.
My MC's are still a little hazy. I think I have this thirtysomething guy (Patrick Fry) and his son (Harrison), and his son's best friend (Fletcher), and the lady next door (Virginia), and her daughter (Reagan).
What they do is also still a little hazy... But I know that at least some of them survive the chaos, that they are among those that end up taking down the aliens, and that some time will be spent on alien ships. I also know that there will be a big sword, possible multiple romantic subplots, multiple POV's with the alien admiral as a possible MC (Ken Follett does it...), a gun that shoots a multicolored beam and makes things explode, and explosive decompression.
Because explosive decompression is really nifty.
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Post by Kirukelgyr on Oct 24, 2006 20:47:28 GMT -5
Yay for Aliens! ^___^
Gahness. I forgot how fun NaNo is...*twitchy*
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Post by Oz on Oct 24, 2006 23:47:44 GMT -5
Jamison Caspar's storyline from last year's NaNo. He's one of the Three Inquisitors. It will involve a freaky psychic kid, the Queen of Silks, a Song Enchantress, and lots of fun.
Hopefully Caspar will be as interesting as I plan on him being.
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