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NaNoWriMo
Oct 20, 2017 0:55:18 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Oct 20, 2017 0:55:18 GMT
Huh. That's pretty cool.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Oct 20, 2017 11:43:12 GMT
I'm glad you think so.
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NaNoWriMo
Oct 30, 2017 16:38:00 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Oct 30, 2017 16:38:00 GMT
So Nano is almost here and I need ideas for rewards. Preferably cheap or free? I'm thinking a vending machine snack on school days, but idk for the 3-ish days when I'm home.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Oct 30, 2017 18:34:11 GMT
-If your family has Netflix, or if there's anything you're interested in on TV.com, pick a show and say you can watch an episode when you hit your goal. -Start a book. You can only read a chapter once you hit your wordcount for the day/time period. -Today or tomorrow, acquire a bag/package of your favorite type of individually-wrapped candies or chocolates. When you hit your goal for a day, you get to eat a treat.
Just a few ideas.
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NaNoWriMo
Oct 30, 2017 22:06:47 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Oct 30, 2017 22:06:47 GMT
Ooh. those are really good. Thanks.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 1, 2017 2:05:47 GMT
You're welcome! Best of luck!
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 1, 2017 2:18:18 GMT
Are you staying up to get started early or going to bed? I'm torn bc I have school tomorrow early and I don't really want to stay up since I have to get up, but I also want to write tonight. >.<
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Nov 1, 2017 7:31:16 GMT
I am not doing NaNo. I would have liked to, but I'm deep in the outlining stage of a new book and on the brink of a transformative revelation that I have yet to decide whether to use or slay. So not ready to write. But I trust you all will do well in your endeavours, and I will check in to watch how you're going!
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 2, 2017 2:09:48 GMT
jliessa44: My brain does not function well enough to edit after 10 or 11 at night. So, yeah. I knocked out my words for the day this evening, once most of my work was done. Dmitri Pendragon: Oooh, sounds quite exciting. I look forward to hearing about your new book.
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 2, 2017 2:42:26 GMT
That's what I've ended up doing too. I haven't started off as strong as I hoped I would. But I'm kinda hoping tomorrow will go better.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 2, 2017 10:55:22 GMT
Agreed. I would've liked to get in a significant amount of extra time . . . no such luck. Maybe today; we'll see how busy I am.
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 3, 2017 0:01:10 GMT
Heh. So today was a fail so far.... I'm going to try hard though to at least hit the minimum I need. I ended up tutoring the whole day.
And on the rewards thing, I've decided to do two. I get a KitKat for every day's word count I hit, and then if I hit today's word count I can reread some of Winner's Curse.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 3, 2017 11:40:23 GMT
Ouch. Hope today works out better!
Sounds like a good plan. *nods*
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 3, 2017 15:30:38 GMT
I hit yesterday's goal this morning and then spent a few years taking a break. I'm really hoping this slump is just because I'm out of practice and I'm not going to be slogging through words all month. >.< I'm really excited about the story so why aren't the words coming? DX
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 3, 2017 17:41:29 GMT
I feel you. My guess is either that you're out of practice or that your characters are trying to tell you something. One of those two. But, hey, you still have time today, right?
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NaNoWriMo
Nov 3, 2017 21:31:20 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 3, 2017 21:31:20 GMT
Yeah. Thank goodness I do. I don't want to be playing catch up the whole month.
After writing another chapter I think it's both? I'm realizing I really don't know my second POV character (the guard) as well as I do my favorite character (the con man). So now that I'm writing from the guard's POV for chapters five and six ((bc I'd already had two and a half chapters done)) I'm struggling.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 4, 2017 1:37:25 GMT
Ah. That's a bit of a problem. Any idea what you're going to do about it?
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NaNoWriMo
Nov 4, 2017 20:34:32 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 4, 2017 20:34:32 GMT
Today has been completely derailed, so I guess I'll do nothing but write tomorrow.
I really don't know. :/ I'm thinking struggling through and doing brainstorming things/thinking about him will help flesh him out.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 4, 2017 22:34:01 GMT
Oh well. Hopefully that'll work out, then!
Ah. That does often work for me, at least. Good luck!
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 6, 2017 1:13:11 GMT
I'm still not doing too well, but oh well...
How's your project going?
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 6, 2017 14:38:51 GMT
Aw, I'm sorry. Mine's going pretty well. Since I'm doing a time-based goal instead of a word-based goal, it's a little less stressful; I just have to block out an hour or so a day to write and I'm good. That said, I feel like my edit after this rewrite is not going to be fun, since I have roughly 11K words of story and my main character just now got to the palace.
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NaNoWriMo
Nov 6, 2017 17:28:16 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 6, 2017 17:28:16 GMT
I'm just thinking weekends aren't going to be the magic they've been in the past where I'll have all this time to write. I think I have something every weekend this November or I need the little time I have at home to move my furniture around. Now it's the weekdays where I have hours at a time that I'm not doing something.
Glad you're doing well though! I'm kinda having the same thing where I'm like over ten k and now I'm just getting to the main problem.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 6, 2017 18:34:25 GMT
. . . Mildly confused, why are you moving furniture around?
It's not that I didn't get to the main problem until now . . . I just didn't get to all the subplots until now. And I think the subplots are what give the story depth and are where I really explore a lot of the themes of my story. But yeah. It's a problem all the same.
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NaNoWriMo
Nov 6, 2017 20:55:35 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 6, 2017 20:55:35 GMT
I didn't like how my room was set up so I'm redecorating. And I have the smallest room in the house so I was trying to fit in a second bookcase and I was having trouble finding the space. But I did manage it so now it's down to finding new places for everything that was displaced. Next month after I graduate I'm planning to paint and tear up the carpet because there's supposed to be hardwood underneath.
Ahhhhh. Okay. Yeah. I agree about the subplots. I'm never good at those though.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 7, 2017 12:06:55 GMT
Oooohhhhh, awesome! That sounds pretty exciting. What color are you thinking of painting, out of curiosity? They can be tricky. And I think they're generally what makes my other projects so much longer than I expect. (Case in point- Fight Song and Once Upon a Dream both have either no subplots or very minor onces, and they both stayed pretty close to the length I anticipated for them. And then Destinies and Decisions has a ton of subplots and it exploded.) Save
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 8, 2017 3:07:51 GMT
Yeah. I'm so excited. I'm already loving the new layout, it gives me more open space. And then I'm already trying to decide on what kind of rug I want to make for it once I have the wood.
Hmmm. Makes sense. For me, I think it might be the lack of subplots that make my stories a lot shorter than I want them to be. I'm /trying/ to add some in as I go though, I have two main subplots involving an engaged sister (with the subplot doubling as a motivation for another character) and then a gangster/mob boss who kind of open's the guard's eyes and serves as a catalyst for his character development.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 8, 2017 14:19:40 GMT
You're making a rug for it? Wow, that's intense. How are you going to do that?
Interesting. Both of those sound like pretty good subplots. I never realized your stories ended up short, though.
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NaNoWriMo
Nov 8, 2017 22:03:39 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 8, 2017 22:03:39 GMT
Not sure. I'm thinking weaving tho. I'm working on a project with a red and gray variegated yarn that I don't have purpose for yet so I might convert it to a rug, which won't take much work once it's done.
Yeaaaah. I rarely finish anything, but what I have finished usually caps at 30k. I've written 50k on stories for Nano before, but they're never finished and usually die out because I struggle to stretch out the plot.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Nov 9, 2017 2:13:05 GMT
Ooooh. Nice. I didn't know you did weaving.
Ah, ok. I didn't know that.
Aaaaand I have made the executive decision to take the night off of NaNo-ing, because I'm two days' worth of writing ahead, and I still have other stuff to get done tonight.
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 9, 2017 2:16:41 GMT
I've loved weaving since I was young, but I didn't have a loom until now. I just built a frame out of wood and it's pretty nice, if primitive.
Yeah. :/
Ugh. I made the same decision, but I'm honestly so far behind I shouldn't... I've just had a lot of crazy this week, and then my mom's laptop broke so mine is the only computer in the house and people need to borrow it.
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