NaNoWriMo 2004

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

enou

the next day you can add the "gh" and end with only one-third of a word. The third day you can end with a whole word.

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

A milieu story is the world; the planet, the society, the weather, the family. Like Gulliver's Travels.

I got that from Card's "How to Write Sci-Fi and Fantasy."

So there you go Entropy. It's all a part of the MICE Quotient.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I have Bird by Bird and have only ever gotten halfway through it. She's got a great point as far as writing really bad first drafts goes, but then I got bored later. Or distracted. Maybe I should read it again. Someday.

I liked it. She had a good combination of advice and personal essay.

My favorite part was when she describes teaching her 3 year-old a peace chant.

[stacer]

It's all a part of the MICE Quotient.

Which there's a thread about somewhere in here, from the spring or summer sometime.

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

I'm so glad that I got this book though. Especially thankful for 42 for mentioning it to me. I think that everyone who writes sf and f should read this book. There's a part in it that I think would help SE to look over about his current novel.

To summarize, don't hang on it to long and just let go of it. Etc, etc, etc.

[EUOL]

Actually, I use that book as the text for my creative writing class.

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

Yes, it's surprisingly fascinating. I am loving it a lot.

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

I need some rules adjucation.

I've written a prologue for the book I want to do for November. technically, I've written a prologue and 2 chapters, but that draft was written a decade ago and will be scrapped. Starting from scrap. Except the prologue. I don't think a blind rewrite would change much at this point.

So, if I just start with chapter 1, and write, and do word count and submit as if I hadn't written a prologue, but then tack the prologue back on when Dec 1 comes around... am I cheating?

[Mistress of Darkness]

I think it's fine as long as you don't count the Prologue in your word count.

[Fellfrosch]

I agree. I would ahve to say no to any chapters, but I think a prologue is good.

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

I think a prologue is a useless thing. Especially if you're introducing characters there. If it's the authors introduction fine. But hey, to each his own.

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

The prologue actually concerns the character who preceded my protag in his role. It's a handy way to explain the curse/mission. It also does a bang-up job explaining why the world is the way it is.

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

Ok ok ok. I'm sure there probably were none of you who knew about (I didn't either). But has anyone heard anything about this: "The Tony Danza excitement: Was it the Tony Danza participating? Only his agent knows for sure."

Wow, wouldn't that be something crazy.

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

I think that would be more interesting/exciting if it were  a celebrity that someone cared about. Y'know, someone BESIDES his mom.

[EUOL]

One week warning!