NaNoWriMo

Reminder that NaNoWriMo is for plebs who never wanted to be authors to begin with.

Reminder that NaNoWriMo is the definition of quantity over quality.

Day 10, total word count 17200, words-per-day 1700.

>Most proud of?
I had a court trial and also a prophetic dream scene, both of which flowed pretty well.

>Struggling
Transitions. There's a lot of travelling in this story, and I'm fighting between having things move to fast and also having things bog down on shit that's just transitory.

>Bad habits
Overlong sentences. Also I get distracted away from what matters in the story sometimes.

>Veeky Forums inspiration
Oh tons, it's a fantasy novel.

>Exploring any themes
It's a standard fantasy romp, but I'm trying to intersperse messages about it being wrong to judge people based on overarching labels. People are evil or nice on an individual basis.

>gr8 b8

Having a hard time with travelling as well.

Trying to keep my characters from spending half the story in transit....

Debate me faggot, debate me!

Can we not? You don't like Nano, that's fine. It's a populist movement that approaches things differently from the traditional blood and sweat method of writing, and that either scares you or irritates you because you're a contrarian. That's okay though, no one is making you do it, no one is making you read these threads, no one is making you reply. No one is making you write. You are free to go back to your safe space, where the barriers of "talent" and "grit" justify your lack of writing, and grumble about the damn kids having fun and doing it wrong and sometimes even getting published. No one is going to stop you.

>Can we not?
No. Why wouldn't we?
>y-you hurt me so you must be trolling!
Whatever kid.

Just ignore the obvious troll user, and stick to the NaNo thread.

Anyways, how's the stories coming as well as the troubles and triumphs that have come with them for everyone?

I've nearly finished chapter 1!
yeah i really need to pick up the pace.

I totally forgot chapters were even a thing. I've just been writing.

stuck around 8k. farthest i've gotten in a novel desu

so I'm having a bit of issue, I was always a bit of introvert so now that I'm trying to write two characters flirting I'm completely lost on what to do. I'm debating on just time skipping to them waking up after a one night stand but that seems pretty cheap. so does any one have any tips on how to write that sort of interaction, especially with two people that only meet each other a few minutes ago?

Stuck on 13k, desperately churning out what I can, trying to knock out that 3k before midnight... Have an end goal, but not too sure how I'm going to tie all this stuff together.

Make them hate each other, let people imagine the subtext.

bump

14500, but haven't written in 2 days because of the elections and subsequent fallout mentally exhausting me.

I'm working on 8-10 chapter backstories for each of my 4 characters before I hop back into the main novel. Got 1 done, and 2 chapters of another.

>Which section are you most proud of?
I can't pick a specific section, but this was a project I started 12 years ago, and I'm proud of how its grown, and I'm proud that it's at a point where I feel its actually worth writing.

>What are you struggling with right now?
Overcoming the brain fog and getting back into it. Drawing my characters in the meantime.

>What are your bad habits as a writer?
Taking on too many projects at once, each with different styles so its hard to get back into one and keeping the same overall mood and pacing.

>Have you used anything from Veeky Forums as inspiration?
Not really. I don't come to this board much, I'm only here because Veeky Forums a shit.

>Are you exploring any themes, or just writing a story?
Suffering, inner demons, and how people handle them in destructive ways. A more humanity-focused perception of war is also involved.

Same here. It'll all most likely move around anyway, so I'm gettng a story down then going back and adding chapters.

With NaNo its best to ignore chapters, anyway. When you focus on them, you focus too much on beginnings and endings which means you waste time re-reading and editing. Ignore them now, maybe place marks where it might be a good breaking point in between days/events, then next month when you review and refine the story you can add them in.

Word count: ~800 so far. I feel like shit, haven't touched it in a few days due to writer's block.

>Proud of?
The dialogue feels natural at least
>Struggling?
See above
>Bad habits?
I love to rewrite and reformat everything after writing for 10 minutes
>Inspiration?
It's high fantasy with furries, so kinda.
>Exploring themes or writing a story?
Just writing a simple hero's journey plotline.

It's fine if I'm writing a screenplay/script, right?

>subsequent fallout mentally exhausting me

Neck yourself junior, the world is too much for you.

>>Which section are you most proud of?
Probably the parts at the end of each chapter where it goes to the narrator telling the story at a festival. I don't know why but I just really like it.
>>What are you struggling with right now?
The characters are running from a demonic invasion above ground (plus undead), and are trying to escape via the crypts but... I just realised the crypts really bore me. Like, REALLY bore me, and I can't bring myself to write a thing.
>>What are your bad habits as a writer?
I tend to go full tolkien, too much walking, too much people doing things, not much character development. I'm not good at dialogue, so I tend to avoid it, which is awful.
>>Have you used anything from Veeky Forums as inspiration?
Definitely, couldn't tell you what came from where though. I've worked on the setting for thirteen years, and over the past six I've been browsing Veeky Forums and playing pathfinder on every friday, so a lot of my setting grew into something unrecognisable over the last six years, and I think it's better for it.
>>Are you exploring any themes, or just writing a story?
It started as the latter, but it's got a running theme of; is magic evil? And then, there's the question of, if it isn't evil, how do we change the mind of a nation that it is convinced that it is?

Oh, and as of now, my word count is 14,662.

Distinctly behind schedule.

You can do it!

Thanks user!

Also, slightly related (I'm doing three short stories this year) question. In my setting, elves, especially the older ones, are very in touch with their home plane. The connection to this home plane strengthens as they do (by age, mentality, or power), and their appearances changes depending on what they do. An elf who uses magic to fly a lot might slowly begin to obtain avian features, a typical wood elf might start to look more like a dryad, or grow antlers etc.

I'm now a little stuck with that concept however, because I can't work out how the 16,000 year old elf, with a hugely strong connection to the home plane, who is considered a god by other elves, would look. He is so old that he's almost biologically a separate species to modern elves (there was an event that changed the biology of many of the races substantially, but he predates that event). I can't work out what the hell he would look like, as ruler of the wood elves (who are basically nazi-ish elven supremacists).

How detailed do you have to get?

Might be better off doing "less is more".

None of you will create works worth reading.

Why do you write?

Personal satisfaction.

It's fun

You are a pleb. I am disappointed in you.
You are a patrician. I am glad you post here.

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It's a subtle difference - good catch, user!