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Pixelmage wrote:

agoraoptera wrote:

Victin wrote:Will we read each other's novels?

I'd love to!

Then I already have a head start!

Pixelmage wrote:Hum... err...
Can we enter the Novel's title later (or change it at least)
I have no frikkin' idea what I'll call mine. #PanicTime

Pixelmage wrote:Hum... err...
Can we enter the Novel's title later (or change it at least)
I have no frikkin' idea what I'll call mine. #PanicTime

Pixelmage wrote:Hum... err...
Can we enter the Novel's title later (or change it at least)
I have no frikkin' idea what I'll call mine. #PanicTime

Victin wrote:

Pixelmage wrote:Hum... err...
Can we enter the Novel's title later (or change it at least)
I have no frikkin' idea what I'll call mine. #PanicTime

I guess I'll write it until I have an idea for the title. I have no idea if I had to enter something or not, because I'll only start it on November 1st

Scarab wrote:

Victin wrote:

Pixelmage wrote:Hum... err...
Can we enter the Novel's title later (or change it at least)
I have no frikkin' idea what I'll call mine. #PanicTime

I guess I'll write it until I have an idea for the title. I have no idea if I had to enter something or not, because I'll only start it on November 1st

Yeah, some people work like that. Generally many writers use 'working titles' that may completely change by the time the story makes it to the public view. Sometimes the appropriate name just doesn't exist until you've written half, or even all of it, because you don't always really know what the story is ABOUT (not what the characters are doing and why, but the overall meaning of what you're writing, if there ever IS one, sometiems there isn't) until you've written it. The original pitch for 'Amnesia: The Dark Descent' for example was 'Unknown' (the final game itself is also seriously different from said pitch.

Nanowrimo is about creative freedom, rough drafting, and resisting the urge to edit no matter how strong. As one of their best bits of advise says on the website: some people have this idea that it's possible to write a brilliant first draft if you just write slowly enough. It isn't.

Victin wrote:Yeah, I don't have any idea of what I'll write. I just know what I WANT to write. How do you think I can start my story? I'm thinking of making it on the first person, with a shifting narrator. Or maybe I'll shift between first ad third person narration. I don't know.

Scarab wrote:

Victin wrote:Yeah, I don't have any idea of what I'll write. I just know what I WANT to write. How do you think I can start my story? I'm thinking of making it on the first person, with a shifting narrator. Or maybe I'll shift between first ad third person narration. I don't know.

See, you're off to a good start. Write it however you wish - it's just a first draft so later on, things can always be changed and improved. As for HOW to start it... hm, well one of the Nano-rules IS 'when in doubt throw ninja's at it'... How about Ninjas attacking a stagecoach? XD

Pixelmage wrote:Well... I know I'll start with a prologue, narrating the events of the cataclysm to set the world up... As for the first chapter itself... I have no idea how to handle. This is going to be fun!

Victin wrote:

Pixelmage wrote:Well... I know I'll start with a prologue, narrating the events of the cataclysm to set the world up... As for the first chapter itself... I have no idea how to handle. This is going to be fun!

I was going to develop while I go Now I'm not sure

ISN'T IT BRILLIANT?

Scarab wrote:

Victin wrote:

Pixelmage wrote:Well... I know I'll start with a prologue, narrating the events of the cataclysm to set the world up... As for the first chapter itself... I have no idea how to handle. This is going to be fun!

I was going to develop while I go Now I'm not sure

Exactly, right now I suspect your brain is completely and desperately churning through thoughts and esperately grasping at ever drop of fiction you ever knew or read and every dream you ever had that you for some reason remember, seeking inspiration as the deadline towards the beginning of the contest clicks ever, ever closer...

ISN'T IT BRILLIANT?

ningyou wrote:I want to start writing now, but I don't want to cheat. I've got Fae, a steampunk world (which is connected by some kind of weird magic to a High Fantasy-type world where the Fae live), reincarnation, and fairy tales that are a little too real for my heroine to be comfortable.

maybe I'll just outline...yeah... >.>

Victin wrote:

ningyou wrote:I want to start writing now, but I don't want to cheat. I've got Fae, a steampunk world (which is connected by some kind of weird magic to a High Fantasy-type world where the Fae live), reincarnation, and fairy tales that are a little too real for my heroine to be comfortable.

maybe I'll just outline...yeah... >.>

Sorry, what's Fae?

Scarab wrote:

Victin wrote:

ningyou wrote:I want to start writing now, but I don't want to cheat. I've got Fae, a steampunk world (which is connected by some kind of weird magic to a High Fantasy-type world where the Fae live), reincarnation, and fairy tales that are a little too real for my heroine to be comfortable.

maybe I'll just outline...yeah... >.>

Sorry, what's Fae?

It's another word for fairy folk, I believe.

I'm not sure there really IS a way to cheat at Nano, actually a lot of people DO work on stuff they were technically already working on before it started. I don't think there's any strict rule against it. I only have a brief snippet at the mo, which I used for my sample... Alas it's really all I can think of O_o

ningyou wrote:I know lots of people have done NaNo with works they'd started beforehand, but it just isn't right for me, personally. I dunno I'm weird.

And yes, Fae are fairy-folk. I'm taking alllllllllll kinds of liberties with my fairies. (Can't be any worse than what SMeyer did to vampires, amirite?)

Victin wrote:

ningyou wrote:I know lots of people have done NaNo with works they'd started beforehand, but it just isn't right for me, personally. I dunno I'm weird.

And yes, Fae are fairy-folk. I'm taking alllllllllll kinds of liberties with my fairies. (Can't be any worse than what SMeyer did to vampires, amirite?)

Sorry, I do'nt recognize the name SMeyer too
I like that idea of playing with already made fictional creatures. Keep doing whatever you are. But, sorry for asking, could you help me with my reference pool? I want to put some small details here and there, so fridge logic can issue, but I'm having soem trouble in my research.

ningyou wrote:

Victin wrote:

ningyou wrote:I know lots of people have done NaNo with works they'd started beforehand, but it just isn't right for me, personally. I dunno I'm weird.

And yes, Fae are fairy-folk. I'm taking alllllllllll kinds of liberties with my fairies. (Can't be any worse than what SMeyer did to vampires, amirite?)

Sorry, I do'nt recognize the name SMeyer too
I like that idea of playing with already made fictional creatures. Keep doing whatever you are. But, sorry for asking, could you help me with my reference pool? I want to put some small details here and there, so fridge logic can issue, but I'm having soem trouble in my research.

Whoops, sorry, SMeyer is Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight books.

I will absolutely help you research! Just send me a PM or post here if you need any help. I'm not super super active but I do check at least once or twice a day.

Pixelmage wrote:The Fair Folk... I like it. Planning to have a Titania?

I intend to write a few shorts to get the feel for the Fae... But not on this NaNo. I'm going completely after-the-end to see if I can handle writing a completely fictional world... I hate writing stuff in real world scenarios.

Opt is using a premade story to enter. I did read it a few days back. It's quite good and it was at ~25k already. But I myself will start writing on 1st only.

Also Vic, If you need help with research I can help too. Either PM or call me in the chatroom. ^^

Pixelmage wrote:The Fair Folk... I like it. Planning to have a Titania?