Novel in a month

[House of Mustard]

I'm quite pleased - especially since Covenant puts almost all their fiction on tape - it's a second item on the market for only a little extra work.

[Lieutenant Kije]

Oh, and I'm finding that those of you that I've gotten to know (in person or through the forum) are showing up in what I write.

“Yeah.  It’s time for some mindless entertainment.”
“I don’t want to watch TV all day.”
“I was thinking about a movie.”
“Yeah, I could go for that.”
“You got any in mind?”
Lionel thought for a moment.  “Um, yeah.  There’s that one about King Arthur and all the knights.  That one looked pretty good.”
“I don’t think I’ve heard of that one, but it sounds good.  I like all that Camelot stuff.”
“Yeah, it’s pretty cool.”

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Calendar reporting time again:
with Fell not having reported, I'm still in the lead with a solid 20% of my novel written, putting me one full day ahead of the daily goal.

I've updated gemm too. Sounds like MoD, who I've been sharing mutual support with this evening, is still working. I'll wait to hear from the rest of you, and looking at EUOL's signature for updates.

Still having fun, still hoping you're all doing well, even if you don't hit 50k, you'll have a heckuva start! (and it's to bed with me, after yet ANOTHER late night!)

Oh, and Kije, i know it's a distraction from your novel, but genre versions of that list would be COOL, AND something we could turn into random event tables for "winging" a role playing session, so it could be posted as an article.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Yeah, Kije your list is really cool. I might have to borrow some of it to get me through some tough spots, though Saint has helped me get my hands around that amorphos middle. Made my goal for the day. Time to crash.

*boink*

[Entsuropi]

That kind of table already has been made by the GM's newsletter, which has done stuff like "100 things to find in a mine" and "100 minor magic items".

[Fellfrosch]

I've seen SE's amorphous middle, and I can't imagine why you'd want to get your hands around it.

I wasn't able to start on my writing today until 10 pm (my only free time during the day was used up by watching Matrix: Revolutions), so I didn't technically finish my writing until 2 in the morning. I count it as being completed on the fifth, though, so mark me up at 8051 words. I should be able to write much more freely tomorrow...I hope.

[EUOL]

I'm up to 7805, though I too wrote late.  However, I do that pretty much every day (prime writing time for me is 10pm-2am) so it should even out.

I must say, I'm very interested in the Fell/SE race.  From what I've read, you two are the next most likely to break into the field.  It will be interesting to see who finishes first, and then to read what you're producing.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Had not I ran into a proverbial brick wall and had it come down on me I would have had more words. And I will be the most entrepenuerial person you've ever known EUOL. Oh, do not worry, I will take my chances!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Well, EUOL is obviously the daily leader, with almost 4000 words yesterday, though I'm in second place, since fell got 1989 words while I did 2293. And I still retain my over all lead. Don't worry, I only have delusions of holding that over EUOL beyond the weekend. Even at his current pace, I should be able to hold it tomorrow. Unless I actually pass out from exhaustion.
I should call in sick....

and hey, you just don't want to put your hands on my amorphus middle because you're a guy. It's a sexy amorphus middle that many girls can't avoid putting their hands on. It's a curse, but someone must bear it.

Speaking of amorphus parts though, I'm starting to see what the biggest problem of all will be with this novel -- I have a very clear personal maturity/growing up story, but with that, there's no compellling reason to set it in a fantasy world. I also have a clear supernatural element that keeps coming back having to do with the identity of the protagonist and his father. I don't however, have a strong conflict for this supernatural element. My big worry is that the two plotlines will be resolved completely independently, and that they will appear to be two different stories, with one more or less just thrown in.
Mostly this is because Peks entire childhood, adolescence, and return to make good have been planned, while the larger conflict having to do with the supernatural elements is largely left unexplored. I've been writing what I know, and putting off the rest in order to meet word counts, but that's only gonna last for so long. if anyone takes the time to read my manuscript so far (daily incarnation linked to from http://www.writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo) and has thoughts, let me know. Yeah, I should probably just follow the advice I gave Izzy, but I think I have a less clear result in mind for that. Time to review notes....

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I think I've figured out a way to end my story, on page 10. Everyone dies because a car left unattended ran into area 51 and woke up the Nuclear Alien who blew the world up. And so, everyone was killed, only to become an even smaller part of the galaxy. The End.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I've decided that my novel will end with the hero killing the royal phillosopher.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Good. Royal philosophers deserve death.

I was talking about the middle of my story!!! Good grief.

I think I beat Saint on words for the day. However, I am paying for my past bad behavior and he's still way ahead of me in total words.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me does the math

Well, yeah, but you didn't write at all the day before. I usually only count the day to day when I figure that out in my head, just because I don't know if you wrote and didn't tell me, or what. But yeah, if you did all that just yesterday, i'm in third and Fell is in fourth. Which means I get the bronze medal and he gets NOTHING! HAHAHAHAHAH!

I've already explained that my ending is going to be "Suddenly, everything blew up," since the novel will be at least another 50k afterwards, but I want to have a "finished" manuscript during November.

Incidentally, The links to manuscripts will come down on Dec 1, for privacy reasons. Then we can workshop by email n' stuff.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Yes, all of that was written yesterday. As I posted yesterday morning, I totally flaked on Tuesday, and I am now paying for it.

Was Tage going to set something up? Or is writers-group.org it? Just wondering because I'm like that.

[Lieutenant Kije]

I haven't sent counts bacause I'm embarrassed at how far I am behind.  But I've learned something: I can only get about 1200 words down before I get hit with temproary ADD or something.  So the last couple of days when I've said to myself, "okay, I'm just gonna ram right thorugh this 'til I'm caught up" I fallen flat on my face after 1200.  So now I'm trying to do multiple 1200 word sittings in a day.  One early am, one evening, one late night.  Something like that.  I will definitely send a count today, caught up or not.  But so far, the plan is working well.

We'll see about more REGs.  They're fun to make.