Woot!!!!!

Well I just finished my NaNo for this year! I have to say this year was way more difficult than last year. this year I had to find time to write, do calculus homework and apply to colleges. But after all the toiling, the sweating and the cramped up fingers, it feels good…

Halfway through the month, the “v” key on my keyboard stopped working. I have to hit it really hard to get it to work. I found myself avoiding words or names that contained the dreaded letter “v.”

I was realyl worried that I woudl run out of plot before I reached 50k. And I did. So I had to improise. The plot of Airheart was over, I;d reached the final scene with the final lines my mai character said adn I still had 10k left to fill. So I had to improvise. I wrote a series fo short stories, little things I had thoguth of some time ago that were pertinent to the main story but were also superfluous. I called them Incidents. There’s six of them. They all tell a short story covering an adventure of Daica and Cryseeh or Evan and Angela. There’s even one for a minor character, Adam.

Now that NaNo is over I can blow away the dust from this poor blog and begin to write for it again.

Goodbye monster NaNo, see ya next year like always.  Now, let me get out my red pen and edit Airheart…

Coinflip

I can’t wait until November. It is sucha  great month: there’s NaNoWriMo, my birthday, it’s the beginning of the rainy season, the best time to have tangerines… the list is just endless.

For this year’s Nano, I’m writing fiction, but i’m not sure I i will do fantasy again or if I will go for mainstream fiction. Before, I’d decided to expand on a flash fiction prompt I answered on this blog (Hidden Under Your Nose). But during Worldbuilding Month, I got really Exited about the stories of Agarithia. I really want to add more to The Lion’s Head (last year’s NaNo). Aww man!

Ok the only fair way to decide this is trhough a con flip. Let me look for a quarter in my backpack… *rumages through bag* Aha! here’s one. It’s a New York quarter. Heads: Add to The Lion’s Head; Tails: Do Hidden Under Your Nose. 50-50 shot.

Drum roll please!

Heads! The Lion’s Head it is. Cool now I have something to write about. Now I need to start managing my schedule so I can write and get all my homework done.

Counting Down For NaNo ‘08

It’s only August and I’m already thinking about this year’s NaNo. Since I can’t do any actual writing of the plot, I just began to develop it in my mind. I’ve decided that this year, I will try a different genre. Last year I worked on the manuscript of The Lion’s Head, which is in the fantasy category. Although The Lion’s Head is still not finished, I want to try somehting different this year.

Earlier this year, I responded to a prompt in everydaytellsastory.wordpress.com [This is a great writing excersice and a fun past time to]. My response was about 400 words long. When I was done writing the thought of using this response as the basis of this year’s NaNo began to creep inside my head. The more I think about it, th more I agree with the idea.

Since I can’t write the plot down until November, I’ve started to just take notes in a small notebook. I carry it wherever I go, [except the bathroom, of course] and write down whatever creative ideas I get. The notes aren’t very organized, they’re just a bunch of random sentences. Like: “appearance vs. reality” and “undergrond labyrnth society–nohting there.” They might not make much sense to others but they are just small reminders that will keep me from forgetting the story until November. I also include details, like character names and their relationship to each other. I call this little notebook my Idea Log.

Maybe later I’ll scan a page and post it as a sample.