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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #75 on: October 31, 2003, 05:47:57 PM »
oh, it won't work for my story, I was just extrapolating for MoD. I need help with names. I think I have the first 50 pages worked out, already (though I haven't written it, that would be cheating). I just need a character name. Any thoughts?
Pekalt
Pakleff
Pexral
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #76 on: October 31, 2003, 05:51:35 PM »
Trying putting pek in the middle of the name rather than at the beginning

And I was trying to come up with some more description for a lych outside of "he smelled bad" and "parts of him were falling off."
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #77 on: October 31, 2003, 06:01:25 PM »
So what do you plan to do while your writing and come to a road block? And while writing what activity do you expect to do the most while writing?
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #78 on: October 31, 2003, 07:22:27 PM »
Umm, I'm planning on talking to my husband while in a roadblock, or some of my friends who are not working on this project to help me get some ideas.

Panicking. That's what I expect to do most while writing. And drinking water.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #79 on: October 31, 2003, 07:24:39 PM »
Izzy, those sound like great ideas.

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #80 on: October 31, 2003, 07:41:36 PM »
Pexandantalus
Peklotle
Pekkat (pronounced pek-cot)
Petrexus
P'Ecsoran
P. Eckers (P. as in Paul or Phil or Poop (yeah, I know you love it))
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P'tek Exornul
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #81 on: October 31, 2003, 07:47:18 PM »
substitute "crapping pants" for talking and "whiskey" for "water" and you've got....

Oh wait, I forgot where I was.

No, YOU KEEP WRITING!
The best thing I EVER heard (and the only valuable thing) Piers Anthony say was about writer's block. You just keep writing. If you can't stay on the plot you start typing your thoughts out, preferably about what you're stuck on. List what your options are for what you can't decide. Brainstorm. Just do it on paper, and do it right there where you were.
example:
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... and that's when things got really crazy. ...
...

Ok, why are they crazy? is it because her drunk friends entered? I guess that's a possiblity. What about an old love interest? yeah. the guy I mentioned from college. He was just gonna be a name, but I supposed I could make him a real character. Why is that so crazy though? Maybe he....
and so on....

A helpful way to start is to include a character combination that will be unique and not appear anywhere else in the book. Like %%%%%. Then you can find really fast where your actual sotry ends and the rant begins, which allows you to review it or cut it out really fast.

Chat is actually better than talking, because you can write it out. You just can't afford to stop writing, even if half of it is stuff you'll never keep.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #82 on: October 31, 2003, 07:52:03 PM »
Especially when it is about the number of words!

And chatting would be great, except that I'm afraid it would distract me. I'm planning on doing most of my work on my computer which is not hooked up to the internet. So that I concentrate on writing. We'll see how it goes though. The cybersilence could become overwhelming.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #83 on: October 31, 2003, 07:56:42 PM »
Well, the chat thing is going to be very indvidual. It'll help me, I think. I just think it'll be better than talking, because it'll keep you in the process of putting words down. remember, you'll probably throw out 90% of what you write in brain storm, but it keeps you from turning your meditation into 4 hours of Neverwinter Nights (not that I'm speaking from personal experience). and keeps you in a pattern
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #84 on: October 31, 2003, 08:57:27 PM »
4 hours till I can start my book

Not that I'm counting or anything.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #85 on: October 31, 2003, 09:27:34 PM »
About 3 1/2 hours, but whos counting?  :P

Oy, I dunno man. I dunno. I don't know if I can do this.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #86 on: October 31, 2003, 09:32:55 PM »
Heh, Entropy's article was funny. Although someone should go clean it up.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #87 on: October 31, 2003, 09:41:01 PM »
Startin' to feel it, eh?
Yeah, so.... my advice is get a little nap in if you plan on starting right at midnight.
Otherwise, do your own thing.

And yeah, I was going ot say, the tags need to be cleaned up, and that page count uh... 2000 is an awful lot of writing.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #88 on: October 31, 2003, 09:51:14 PM »
Well, I've got some food stuffs in me. So that'll help. I got a nap earlier. As short as I didn't want it to be, it was. Only about 30 minutes. Pizza and wings, and some Mug Root Beer. But for now I'm just gonna talk to people and get some amusement for myself. I dunno.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #89 on: October 31, 2003, 10:02:26 PM »
5 more hours . . . . anyone else planning on starting at midnight?
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