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lucathiaAll right, looks like I've settled on my NaNoWriMo project. I will be sticking to "Lhordata" after all, also known as Tekatme's (Not-So) Excellent Adventures. XD; I already do not like my writing. Since I want to make this be able to stand alone without last year's NaNo as background, I'm dedicating the prologue to establishing some of Tekatme's character traits and what he's experienced before he heads to Lhordata. I finally named Ikatchi's home (so if I ever write Part 2 it would now be titled Fendron) but I wonder if that name even sounds like it's from the same 'verse. Probably sounds more like a name of a person... but no one's named with such conventions in this story, so that should be okay... Am now trying to figure out what this entire world is called.
I'm aiming for this to be young adult, with my main focus of this being a coming of age story, so yay self discovery! This will not be a terribly exciting story, but at least Tekatme's voice should be fun. ._____. I'm going to write with logical divisions instead of just spewing words out without a destination like I did last year. (It was very difficult to divide my writing into chapters last year when I was formatting my NaNo for printing because there was no logical division!) I might post by chapters here in my LJ if I manage to finish them, but I'll probably be jumping around with my writing if I get stuck on chapters, so I won't be finishing them in order. :3 I have only managed to plot up to chapter 2 so far though...
I managed to (barely) write over 1667 words yesterday. Now that it's past midnight, it's a whole new day, another 1,667 words to go... But no writing for me until after I sleep and come back from work. I also need to figure out what the heck I wrote yesterday because I'm not sure it makes sense. (building off of something that doesn't make sense? that will only lead to disaster...or at least a huge mess and a plot that trips over itself)
Cannot wait until the NaNo site has widgets for keeping track of word count! Also, this year CreateSpace is offering 5 free copies of our books for winners. How awesome is that? *___* My book from last year's NaNo story! One book was certainly not enough. XD
Good luck to everyone who's participating this year! I will be spamming my flist with a lot of talk about NaNo this November. ^^;;
I'm aiming for this to be young adult, with my main focus of this being a coming of age story, so yay self discovery! This will not be a terribly exciting story, but at least Tekatme's voice should be fun. ._____. I'm going to write with logical divisions instead of just spewing words out without a destination like I did last year. (It was very difficult to divide my writing into chapters last year when I was formatting my NaNo for printing because there was no logical division!) I might post by chapters here in my LJ if I manage to finish them, but I'll probably be jumping around with my writing if I get stuck on chapters, so I won't be finishing them in order. :3 I have only managed to plot up to chapter 2 so far though...
I managed to (barely) write over 1667 words yesterday. Now that it's past midnight, it's a whole new day, another 1,667 words to go... But no writing for me until after I sleep and come back from work. I also need to figure out what the heck I wrote yesterday because I'm not sure it makes sense. (building off of something that doesn't make sense? that will only lead to disaster...or at least a huge mess and a plot that trips over itself)
Cannot wait until the NaNo site has widgets for keeping track of word count! Also, this year CreateSpace is offering 5 free copies of our books for winners. How awesome is that? *___* My book from last year's NaNo story! One book was certainly not enough. XD
Good luck to everyone who's participating this year! I will be spamming my flist with a lot of talk about NaNo this November. ^^;;
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Date: 2011-11-04 07:21 am (UTC)I'm terrible with talking or listening and trying to do something else at the same time... phone and IM conversations need my complete attention. Aw, I envy that you know exactly how a scene is going to go. XD; I need that to happen more with my writing! Six fighters vs. Wind Sage Yanagi sounds epic indeed.
I can't help but input my word count throughout the day even when I haven't written much more than what I had before. XD; *totally wasting time like that* I barely managed to reach Day 3's word count, but I inched over the par line!
I felt very sleepy earlier and thought that I'd take a nap... but I wasn't really sleepy... just didn't want to write. But yesterday I was drained! Ah, that 4th grade class sounds like a handful. That's behavior I would expect from a lower grade (it happens a lot, those type of petty things...). It might be like what you said, that because their normal teacher is so strict, your way of doing things seems so much more lax that they thought they could act out more.
Hehe, I subbed for a 4th grade class this week! (my brother's actually) And food chains appeared. Made me remember your post about your experience drawing food webs. The class and I came up with one strange food chain.
I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT BANNER. I want it already. XD;