NaNoWriMo Discussion

[Antarctic Termite]

Well, I don't know anything about faith, but my characters sure do.

Diya kept her mouth shut and exhaled. “Between you and me, my lady,” she said, “baptism was a very cheap way to keep my head from the fire.” She raised a hand and pulled a chain from her chest. Silver, with a small cross. “God has his uses.”

Salma leaned in. “That’s a dagger.”

“Yes, it is.”

“Is it poisoned?”

“Of course.”

fantasy protagonist who refuses to die

I feel the need to clarify that the Sticky Jesus worshipped in Mortasheen is entirely unrelated to the Christ Jesus of Earth. Jesus of Nazareth was a heretical blood wizard who ascended to godhood after being executed for insurrection, and used his power to posthumously drag his hippie followers into a utopian parallel universe upon death. Jesus of Sticky, on the other hand, is widely thought to be nothing more than slime propaganda.

the narrator protagonist

[Tybalt Capulet]

@shylarahThe guy who said this is an idealist of the highest order. During a tempest, he's just praying contentedly. The main character, though a less and less sane, more and more drunk person of questionable moral fiber, is a more pragmatic guy.

[Tybalt Capulet]

@Antarctic TermiteDouble post, but this, all of this that you've written there is a masterpiece. This is some Terry Pratchett stuff.

[shylarah]

@Antarctic Termite I'm with @Tybalt Capulet, and I want to read it when you're done. Please. This is /precisely/ my kind of humor!

[Silver Carrot]

I'm going to try it next year. I wrote a 38,000 word novel once by writing 2000 words a day over a few weeks, and that wasn't hard at the time, but I haven't written much since. It burned me out.

[RomanAria]

I can't believe I missed this thread. I've started NaNo several times over and never finished. Really never got close to done this year oops. I wasted much of my writing time agonizing over worldbuilding.... in the future I'll endeavor to have prebuilt settings for my people to play in. And I'll likely be doing camp NaNo in the spring, once my school stuff has calmed down.

[shylarah]

@RomanAria It's okay, I didn't find the thread right away either. *snugs* I hope school's going alright, at least!

[ayzrules]

A little less than 5,000 words left with a 7 hour write-in to attend tomorrow. I can do this!!!

How's everyone else's NaNo stuff coming along? How many words are y'all at?

[Tybalt Capulet]

@ayzrulesI've got 2.6k to go! I'm wrapping up this chunk (it won't end the story, but it will draw it to the close of an arc). I'll hopefully finish tonight, though I'd be cool with getting it done tomorrow.

[Tybalt Capulet]

Guys... I did it. 50,033. I feel elated, honestly.

[mickilennial]

Congrats! I didn't end up completing this year, but that's alright. It happens.

[Tybalt Capulet]

@InkarnateHey, you've still got more words than you had!

[mickilennial]

@InkarnateHey, you've still got more words than you had!

@Tybalt Capulet

Hey man, I gave up when I realized I had only like four thousand words written down by the third week. I know when to admit defeat.

[Antarctic Termite]

BOYS

[shylarah]

@Antarctic Termite WOO!

I'm adding up all the stuff I've written for rps over the last month right now, just for giggles.

[ayzrules]

finished! 50,011 words at 11 pm ish my time B)

my graph is the story of my entire life

[Naril]

I just finished! 50,424 words.

I'll keep working on this story; I like it, and it's not done yet. I think with all the garbage removed, this is just about "Part One" of a three part story, with around 30k words for a final 85-90k word count. This was fun!

[Tybalt Capulet]

@NarilThat's how I feel, too. There's a lot more story to be told.

[ZB1996]

Like other people I'm not done with my novel. Not even close. I just got past the first part in the book. That being said, I feel like my group of characters have more personality and chemistry than any other group of characters I've previously concocted. I'm going to keep working on this, though I'll probably take a little break first.