Category: NaNo

NaNo 2016

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It is day two of this year’s NaNo. 

My goal is for 60,000 as opposed to the usual 50,000. It will be a fantasy story.

Two days before NaNo started, I was trolling around the forums (in my day, trolling meant just rambling thru something, seeing what there was to see. I continue to use it in this way while conscious of its current meaning) when I came across a posting about bullet journals. 

If you haven’t heard of bullet journals, they are self made versions of store bought journals, personalized to your needs instead of you trying to fit into the proscribed formula. You decide how much room is allocated to each section and can gussy it up as you see fit.

While reading thru the posting, one Wrimo stated how they were going to use their bullet journal to track their Harry Potter word crawl. This lead to another discovery.

Word crawls are devices used to help you grow your word count. Usually in story form, you must meet mini word counts based on the results of timed word sprints, choices made, and randon acts. Here is the link to its page on the NaNo wikipage.

So I am trying out both those methods this year. We shall see how things progress and how long they shall be in use.

Plot Where Once was Pants

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Every year it seems I become more of a plotter and less of a pantser.

The first year I tried NaNo, I literally signed up late night of October 31. No idea, no plan. Just decided to see what everyone was talking about.

Now it’sa highlight of the year and I do seem to learn from past years. My writing program of choice is WriteWay. I figure out to use more of the features each time, and more open to other tools.

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Saw this over the weekend on one of the forums and will probably use it.  And possibly a beat sheet.

But I do have an eye on keeping some element of chance in my writing. Not like characters usually give you much choice in that.

NaNoWriMo 2015

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Another fall and the smell of writing is in the air. Or rather, of plotting.

So, my first idea involved Norman Reddish and his two buds, Sean Patrick Flanery and Andrew Lincoln. It would have been a buddy cop thing with Sean and Andrew going after Norman.

And then, because there’s always an ‘and then’ went it comes to NaNo, The Count of Monte Cristo popped in my head. Set in the Wild West. With Norman as ‘the count’ and still with Sean and Andrew.

How much I end up ripping off from Monsieur Dumas remains to be seen. As well as how I illustrate the process on here.

So here’s to saddling up again for a bumpy ride.

Camp NaNo: April session

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Total pantser, for a lark, and based on this pic:

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Might do the ‘innocent falls into situation of danger, meets expert and they fall in love as dodge baddies’. Only as is my way have it be two fellas instead of a guy and girl.

Edit: Might blog the fic on its own blog since know it won’t be everyone’s cuppa.

Anyone else Camping?