Ahah, yeah, kinda went angsty for a second there. But I'm getting a lot of progress done right now, I'm pretty excited. Thanks EN, Zan, Heat. I appreciate it.
And Common, good luck on that novel of yours. I'll give you the respect of reading a post before commenting. Personally, I would've liked to have seen an apology, but hey, whatever.
Onward and upward!
NaNoWriMo
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So, here's thyat apology now...
SORRY ;~;[b][/b]
I make it a personal rule to apologise AFTER I get my point across.
SORRY ;~;[b][/b]
I make it a personal rule to apologise AFTER I get my point across.
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Why were there so many long posts in a row there? It seems a tad odd that everyone, even Common, would decide to post several paragraphs in response to Tom's angst filled pseudo-rant. I wonder why Common, Heat and En decided to respond in such a way. It really does seem strange to me, but perhaps that is just my own beliefs shaping my opinion of the matter. Still, I understand what each of you are saying. You all have your own opinions, your own thoughts, and those mar you interpretation of what is really going on here. It is a natural thing, obviously, but it still leads to vast misunderstandings. Of course, no one really cares about these misunderstandings, so I am not really sure why I am commenting on it to begin with. Oh well.
Tom....Likes to write. Tom feels that he is stuck in a dead end job and desperately want to succeed in life. However, Tom, like myself, lacks the will to drive himself to achieve bigger and better things for himself. I think many people go through this stage where they feel complacent while yearning for more. It is almost as though they reach a summit of a mountain while before them stands a much moutain with less handholds. They know they should continue on, but they also know it would be incredibly difficult. They have come so far and want to rest, though they know that all they really want in life is just beyond the next mountain. They have to push themselves, but they are scared of failing and possibly losing everything they have previously achieved. Also, they probably have diarrhea, but that is a different problem altogether.
Anyway....I like pants.
Tom....Likes to write. Tom feels that he is stuck in a dead end job and desperately want to succeed in life. However, Tom, like myself, lacks the will to drive himself to achieve bigger and better things for himself. I think many people go through this stage where they feel complacent while yearning for more. It is almost as though they reach a summit of a mountain while before them stands a much moutain with less handholds. They know they should continue on, but they also know it would be incredibly difficult. They have come so far and want to rest, though they know that all they really want in life is just beyond the next mountain. They have to push themselves, but they are scared of failing and possibly losing everything they have previously achieved. Also, they probably have diarrhea, but that is a different problem altogether.
Anyway....I like pants.
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Your posts are too long to be interesting to me. All I got was that Common apologises for somthing, and Zanallen likes pants.
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Why were there so many long posts in a row there? It seems a tad odd that everyone, even Common, would decide to post several paragraphs in response to Tom's angst filled pseudo-rant.
I made a long post because Tom did. We were following a mini-trend...of long posts.
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I'm writing a book about a werewolf who hunts down evil creatures that prey on the innocent...
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A good werewolf? Hmm, well, try to give it your own thing, but it doesn't sound too cliched at least. There's an issue I've been having with my work. Damn, I said it was a combination of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but damn it, there have been scenes where I've said, "Oh, now this just seems like an angsty Harry Potter fanfic."
In other news, think I've officially started Chapter 2, though that really means nothing at all, especially since there's so much revisionary work I'd like to do. I'll admit, I'm dreadfully, dreadfully behind and my attempts to remedy the situation are getting bogged down by my friends inability to see why this is so very important to me. That and my damnable attention span. I really only get a decent amount of writing done when I'm working alone on the job, which I only do once a week these days.
Although I went through one such experience last Thursday and got quite a bit done. I've written something that I thought was particularly powerful and I'm very proud of, although it could use a little more dramatic build up before the scene.
Hmm, what's more, what's more... Oh, word counts, yes. Oh, this will be embarassing.
4567 words in Chapter 1
3867 words in Chapter 2
Grand Total, 8424 Words.
Day 10, Suggested Word Counts, 17,000.
As I was afraid, I'm at less than half what I should be at. Now that's dissapointing. I'm making progress, surely, but at this juncture, hitting 50,000 in the span of a month does not seem very likely.
I really should be posting all this sort of thing in the NaNo site, I know, but, ugh, I don't know. The first few days there, the lag from traffic was so bad I couldn't access the site at all, and the fact that not a single soul responded to my noobie thread, well, I'm carrying that around like some kind of childish grudge.
But I suppose that's it on my end. Oh, one more note of interest. Since I really started cracking down on my writing, I've been having these incredibly vivid dreams. This is rather surprising, as I haven't had a vivid dream in quite some time, or at least had a dream that I could remember. But since the beggining of November, I've been having these dreams. Well, not really dreams, that's not the right word, nightmares is more like it. I've woken up shouting and attacking imaginary assailants or just bursting out of a sound sleep, drenched in sweat. It's really quite interesting. Take yesterday for example, I was having this dreadful nightmare and had just come to the bone crunching conclusion when I awoke with a start. It was 2 PM, the normal time I should get up. But rather than doing that, I went right back to sleep. I had this nagging feeling that there was more to the 'story', that there was something else, I had to know where my dreams were taking me. And so I slept for another 6 hours, dumping myself right back into that nightmare world of destruction and madness. Needless to say, I've gotten some rather wonderful ideas from all of it, although that's kind of an odd thing to say, I suppose. Willingly subjecting oneself to their own nightmares for the sake of finding new ideas? Well, if it works, it works.
tl;dr - Tom rambles. 8424 words.
EDIT: Christ Zan, I think you were right about that whole, "Getting off to my own writing" thing, it's like I'm physically incapable of writing a short post and just getting to the f-king point, y'know?
EDITx2: Clicky for awesome/wtf webcomic. Kinda makes you go, "Woah."
In other news, think I've officially started Chapter 2, though that really means nothing at all, especially since there's so much revisionary work I'd like to do. I'll admit, I'm dreadfully, dreadfully behind and my attempts to remedy the situation are getting bogged down by my friends inability to see why this is so very important to me. That and my damnable attention span. I really only get a decent amount of writing done when I'm working alone on the job, which I only do once a week these days.
Although I went through one such experience last Thursday and got quite a bit done. I've written something that I thought was particularly powerful and I'm very proud of, although it could use a little more dramatic build up before the scene.
Hmm, what's more, what's more... Oh, word counts, yes. Oh, this will be embarassing.
4567 words in Chapter 1
3867 words in Chapter 2
Grand Total, 8424 Words.
Day 10, Suggested Word Counts, 17,000.
As I was afraid, I'm at less than half what I should be at. Now that's dissapointing. I'm making progress, surely, but at this juncture, hitting 50,000 in the span of a month does not seem very likely.
I really should be posting all this sort of thing in the NaNo site, I know, but, ugh, I don't know. The first few days there, the lag from traffic was so bad I couldn't access the site at all, and the fact that not a single soul responded to my noobie thread, well, I'm carrying that around like some kind of childish grudge.
But I suppose that's it on my end. Oh, one more note of interest. Since I really started cracking down on my writing, I've been having these incredibly vivid dreams. This is rather surprising, as I haven't had a vivid dream in quite some time, or at least had a dream that I could remember. But since the beggining of November, I've been having these dreams. Well, not really dreams, that's not the right word, nightmares is more like it. I've woken up shouting and attacking imaginary assailants or just bursting out of a sound sleep, drenched in sweat. It's really quite interesting. Take yesterday for example, I was having this dreadful nightmare and had just come to the bone crunching conclusion when I awoke with a start. It was 2 PM, the normal time I should get up. But rather than doing that, I went right back to sleep. I had this nagging feeling that there was more to the 'story', that there was something else, I had to know where my dreams were taking me. And so I slept for another 6 hours, dumping myself right back into that nightmare world of destruction and madness. Needless to say, I've gotten some rather wonderful ideas from all of it, although that's kind of an odd thing to say, I suppose. Willingly subjecting oneself to their own nightmares for the sake of finding new ideas? Well, if it works, it works.
tl;dr - Tom rambles. 8424 words.
EDIT: Christ Zan, I think you were right about that whole, "Getting off to my own writing" thing, it's like I'm physically incapable of writing a short post and just getting to the f-king point, y'know?
EDITx2: Clicky for awesome/wtf webcomic. Kinda makes you go, "Woah."
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Heh, Tom's a literary pervert.
That being said...Anyone know any good werewolf movies I can use for research? I've got Underworld 1 & 2, American Werewolf in London/Paris, Dog Soldiers, In the Company of Wolves and...Sadly...Dark Wolf.
That being said...Anyone know any good werewolf movies I can use for research? I've got Underworld 1 & 2, American Werewolf in London/Paris, Dog Soldiers, In the Company of Wolves and...Sadly...Dark Wolf.
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The widget in my signature tells all.
Well, it's begun; I've started to have to cut little subquests out of my book. Otherwise, it's going to be running too slow to read and I'll never get through the plot. Rather than having Jess and Tya go and make the test delivery to a guy in Warre's End, they're going to go to Warre's End to jump to 79K Elgel in order to make the delivery there, show how crazy the Thousand Worlds can be, and...
...yeah. Whatever, then.
I haven't cut anything major out of the plot yet -- I'm still showcasing Warre's End by putting the gate in that district, but they're just passing through -- but unless this plot starts moving faster, I'm going to be at the end of November and halfway through the plot events, probably stuck in the prison with Dask punching through some wall...
...yeah, I'm doing it again.
The book's starting to drive me a little crazy. I've been telling everyone who will listen about the plot and the characters and whatnot. I'm already starting to look back and think to myself that this little bit needs to be changed, or that part needs to be tweaked for clarity, or stuff like that.
...either way, I'm still well ahead of the word count. I cheated to get there, but I'm still ahead.
I know that I'm going to make the 50k no problem this month; the only question will be whether I've actually finished the plot at the end of November.
Well, it's begun; I've started to have to cut little subquests out of my book. Otherwise, it's going to be running too slow to read and I'll never get through the plot. Rather than having Jess and Tya go and make the test delivery to a guy in Warre's End, they're going to go to Warre's End to jump to 79K Elgel in order to make the delivery there, show how crazy the Thousand Worlds can be, and...
...yeah. Whatever, then.
I haven't cut anything major out of the plot yet -- I'm still showcasing Warre's End by putting the gate in that district, but they're just passing through -- but unless this plot starts moving faster, I'm going to be at the end of November and halfway through the plot events, probably stuck in the prison with Dask punching through some wall...
...yeah, I'm doing it again.
The book's starting to drive me a little crazy. I've been telling everyone who will listen about the plot and the characters and whatnot. I'm already starting to look back and think to myself that this little bit needs to be changed, or that part needs to be tweaked for clarity, or stuff like that.
...either way, I'm still well ahead of the word count. I cheated to get there, but I'm still ahead.
I know that I'm going to make the 50k no problem this month; the only question will be whether I've actually finished the plot at the end of November.