NaNoWriMo: Day 21

November 21st, 2009 in My Life / NaNoWriMo / Writing
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Wow.  How did that number get so big?  Apparently November is slipping by as fast as the rest of the year.

Yesterday, I wrote a little bit for the first time in…seven or eight days.  Yes, I’ve done it again and saved all the work for the last week and a half.  I don’t know why I can’t just be normal and write a little every day like everyone else.

Current word count is 22,079.  About 4,000 from the past 24 hours.

The story itself is absolutely laughable.  I don’t think I have enough plot to believably fill the 50,000 words, so it’s become almost a character study—getting into the brains of multiple characters, playing around with dialogue, and realizing that the main character I intended to write about is by far the most boring one in the story.  Bummer.

I guess that’s NaNoWriMo for you.

 

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  • Joshua H
    November 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 am | Reply »
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    I’m sure you can turn around your ‘boring character”. Monotone speeches are boring but people who speak that way can be really funny ( I’m thinking of Cameron’s speech on joy which was anything but boring :-)

     
     
     
  • Alex B.
    November 22nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm | Reply »
    #626
     

    I agree with Joshua. You should have you “boring character” do something like a….like a…..uh oh……ummm……______beeeep…light bulb fizzles out. I hate it when that happens. Oh well just have him do something different, big, heroic, unexpected. You get the idea :P :) your have way, keep going.

    God bless,
    Alex

     
     
     
  • Ben
    November 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm | Reply »
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    You know, your main character can be boring. Just have some unexpected things happen around the character, you can make the characters reaction normal, or way over react/under react…

    You see before you a blank character, make something out of it. :-D

     
     
     
  • Laura
    November 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am | Reply »
    #628
     

    Happy Thanksgiving, Beth! I have had a great time getting to know you these past couple months. :-)
    Have a blessed day!
    ~Laura

    ps: congrats on getting over 35K! ;-)

     
     
     
  • Ben C
    November 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am | Reply »
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    *starts chant* more excerpts, more excerpts, more excerpts!!! ;)

    Ooh, and… idea for “boring” characters, whenever you think it’s helpless, and the character refuses to be exciting…

    Kill him. :P lol!

     
     
     
  • A Messenger of C..
    November 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Reply »
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    50,246 words!!! *YOU DID IT YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhh!!!* Congratulations!!!!!! Can we see it when your done putting the final touches on it!?!?!?! :) :D :D :D :D :D :D

    Great job,
    Alex

     
     
     
  • Laura
    November 30th, 2009 at 11:52 am | Reply »
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    YAY BETH FOR GETTING OVER 50K!!!!!!!!!! *gives her a HUGE bag of cookies and chocolate and all sorts of other goodies*

    ~Laura who won NaNo as well with 50,014.

     
     
     
  • Joy
    November 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Reply »
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    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! GO BETH! GO BETH! 50246 words! **everyone claps** :D Way da go! Seriously, I could NEVER do that. :D

     
     
     
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