NaNoWriMo month (and your ideas for a story)

I'm thinking of doing a genreless story about a kid who's secretly an Eldritch Abomination being sent to destroy another Eldritch Abomination, both of them capable of leveling a city for amusement. It'll mostly be about its dickishness and the lives that are messed up/lost because of it. It might not make sense, but damn it, I'll give it my best. After all, it can be cleaned up later.

I doubt I'll do it, because of university and my own stress-sensitivity.

^ Aww. It is a great way to explore your inner writer — are you really sure you won't try Ettina?

edited 28th Oct '10 10:37:33 PM by QQQQQ

I succeeded two years ago and failed miserably last year.

This year I'm planning a YA novel about a satanic superhero. She summons demons to fight for justice!

I'm just going to keep writing what I was already writing and not bother with the word count. This is a completely useless post.

I've got short stories galore for it, but they're interconnected so I get to count as a not-rebel. At any rate, I may very well not actually win, I have a metric tonne of things to do, but I insist on trying anyway.

I have several ideas, most of which were conceived when I was feeling like a pile of shit, and will probably result in the stories being all melodramatic and angsty and what not.

But hey, as long as I finally get them onto paper.

My parents are wondering why their freezers have suddenly been taken over by single-serving casseroles and breakfast burritos. Its fun to cook in bulk.

I don't really like Na No Wri Mo because I prefer longer-term more serious projects.

If I had the time and energy I would do it...

It would probably be best if I practiced writing short stories anyways.

I may do this, but I do have the problem of my mom nagging me about it. This kills my inspiration so fast I don't care about the public humiliation I may face. Plus, I'm so busy with school and writing applications for college. x.x

I do have an idea that's been kicking around in my brain for awhile though. D:< Damn you Na No Wri Mo, you do this to me every year.

^^It's not like you can't use the novel you wrote for it as a long term, serious project. It probably helps getting the first draft out and that way you can edit and re-draft more in the future.

edited 29th Oct '10 10:06:53 PM by Jumpingzombie

I want to broaden my experience horizons and develop my inner writer. I'm in!

I've started something new in September, so personally I will just keep on writing. 50,000 words would be a little much for me in just a month. My word count raises slowly but steadily.

Snap Decision for Na No Wri Mo: Reality Ensues after a Mass Super-Empowering Event, with a Daydream Believer starting a superhero team pulled in way over his head, or a Genre Savvy Deadpan Snarker with Medium Awareness in a Brand X Sitcom meets another like him and tries to pull a Pleasantville on his world, and invokes Rage Against the Author?

edited 30th Oct '10 8:31:13 PM by moocow1452

Hmmm. Well, I don't know how successful I'll be if I take up the task, but I'd like to at least give it a shot. I've had a few ideas slamming around in my head for a while, and this might be a good way to make some progress - not to mention I need to get back in the writing groove.

Or, to think of it from another perspective...

BURNING PASSION OF A WRITER, IGNITE!

edited 30th Oct '10 9:33:51 PM by Voltech44

@moocow: the first. The second's a bit too self-aware, and a lot easier to screw up. More readers prefer a straight story to a fourth-wall-breaking, genre savvy one.

This is my second year trying it, but I'm gonna win this year!

Except I have no story idea.

This is only a minor problem in my experience.

I tried it before, and found it turned writing from a fun experience to a chore that filled me with stress. I still haven't gotten myself to even look at the draft from last time, because I hated writing it so much.

Bring it on! I've got a plan, a setting, fleshed-out characters, and a burning passion to actually finish my entire novel. Of course, this is the first year I've ever done it, so I haven't had a chance to become jaded.

Whatever happens, I'm going to have a blast with this thing.

I'm doing it for sure the 1,667 words per day is under my average wpd, so I figure this will be a nice time to show off XD

I'm on the Na No Wri Mo site PM me for writer buddy if you want. :)

I really want to try Na No Wri Mo again but am unsure if I should, being a senior in college with a LOT of stuff going on...

I started a thread a while back for my idea: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=yg67hprtv16ahc63zxjsb6dw

Got my account. Current working title, Magical Girl no Civil War.

Already banged out 3992 words myself, :D

Only have five hundred so far, but fuck it, it's 7:18 am, I'm goin' to sleep.

Me, I'm writing a story about a boy who dies after being hit by a car (I've decided it to have been a Volvo, though it's not specified in the story) and wakes up in what he thinks to be the afterlife. And he finds a pony to ride after he wakes up (hence the title: I Hope My Pony Knows The Way Home). Shut the hell up, ponies are awesome.

But it's not exactly the afterlife. It's a sort of in-between. He's a terribly boring, straight-laced guy who doesn't really do anything to enjoy himself, and over the course of his journey, he explores music, deep philosophy, and drugs.

It's got a pony in it! :D