NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 1
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nano_writersYou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
― Stephen King

The word count for today is 1,667! Easy, right? That’s about seven pages of a typed manuscript (following standard format). Of course Your Mileage May Vary and don’t think you have to stop when you hit the day’s quota! This is the time to tap into all that good writer mojo and let yourself go with the flow!
Questions? Comments? First word? It’s all good! So Keep Writing!
so I'm going to attempt this after all
Date: 2012-11-01 05:28 am (UTC)Second to fifty-seventh words: "calls in the middle of the night are rarely good; phone calls that wake you up are rarely good; phone calls that wake you up in the middle of the night are nearly-always bad.
The phone didn't actually wake me up, but that's because I was already calling Ralph on the porcelain telephone, so to speak."
Re: so I'm going to attempt this after all
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Date: 2012-11-01 06:26 am (UTC)If I do this all in order, as I am hoping to do, the first several days are going to be an awful slog as I drag my way through the primary source material. I have a rough idea of what to show and what to skip and what to skim, but like I said before, trying to find a source of narrative tension when the reader already knows everything that's going to happen is hard. Gotta dig deep into John's brain, and honestly, I'm much better at Sherlock.
Okay, that was a huge rant. Here, let my share with you
my first paragrapha slightly altered version of the first paragraph of Paper Towns by John Green:"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all of the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the flats in all the streets in all of London, I ended up living with Sherlock Holmes."
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-01 07:00 am (UTC)I'm guessing "standard manuscript format" isn't single-spaced regular pages because it's less than four pages so far on mine XD
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Date: 2012-11-01 10:34 am (UTC)I'm at 2244 words and now I'm going to bed. I'll probably get more words in the afternoon but I've made my word count for the day so I am happy!
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-01 11:03 am (UTC)I always write better in the evening/at night. :p
Word count so far : 2158
First sentence : They are walking through town.
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-01 12:20 pm (UTC)First word: "Hey". The next little bit, "Hey, you! Stop right there."
Rinda flinched where she was crouched, peeping out from the hooded cowl that covered her head (and most importantly, her ears), in the direction of the voice. Sure enough, a city guard was making his way over to where she was shadowed by the city wall and the open market stall, poised to pinch the pocket of any mark that looked like they had two gold pieces to rub together.
Not great, but hey. First draft.
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-01 12:25 pm (UTC)10,000th word - for.
I, uh, like to start day one with a buffer? (Also: Australian. It's 11:24 and I just hit 10,053.)
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:31 pm (UTC)I finished the 2010 Nano in 13 days, so I'm hoping to beat that record, lol. Clearly, I'm insane.
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Date: 2012-11-01 05:26 pm (UTC)First sentence; It had been missing for days now, long enough for his mother to call it missing and abandon the search.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:46 pm (UTC)Tony Stark’s boredom reached epic proportions pretty easily.
Yes, it's fanfiction, but I'm editing original works for myself/someone else this month too. Soo... >>; Yeah.
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Date: 2012-11-02 12:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-02 12:29 am (UTC)I think fanfic might be allowed now; they've given fanfic it's own forum thread, and there are a number of other threads for fandoms as well.
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:56 am (UTC)But I can't write my own world well and I get major intimidation issues even with writing the story on a computer. It's really sad because I just want to finish my story ideas, lol. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY DO THIS ONCE SINCE HIGH SCHOOL.
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Date: 2012-11-02 12:26 am (UTC)"If you don't trust me, Black, you can check for yourself. Tibbs!"
Harry Potter fanfiction, and a story I started for a previous NaNo, so I'm rebelling quite thoroughly this year -- and looking forward to enjoying every minute of it.
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Date: 2012-11-02 11:21 am (UTC)The scene I most liked is the one where my MC, Tasha, is waiting for a letter to state whether or not she has passed her trainer exam, and is spending the time playing a pokemon game:
“The last of the Elite Four has been defeated; the new chaption is Tasha McKinney!”
A week later, Tasha was in her room, playing on a handheld video games console. She’d been anxiously awaiting her exam results for the past week, and to take up some time she had begun to replay one of her numerous pokemon games, challenging herself to see if she could complete it before her results arrived.
“But wait!” Tasha continued to narrate her progress on the game, lifting her right leg up and slamming it back down on to the bed she was currently laying on. Her per Persian, [persiannickname] Lapis lazily lifted his head up to glare at her before resting his chin back on his front paws and going back to sleep.
“What’s this? The Elite Four had already been defeated before I got there? Impossible! Who was it...Owen, my rival?! And I’ve got to defeat him?” A wide grin appeared on Tasha’s face. “Bring it on! I’ve got six pokemon at level eighty, a ton of items, and I guarantee I can wipe the floor with you.”
A few minutes later, the games console lay discarded on the bed as Tasha did a couple of laps of her room in celebration of becoming – yet again – the champion.
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