"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
I suppose I am quick but I'm not an aussie. Kiwi's don't like being called Aussies, but it happens really often
Now up to 14,000, or 8,000 in the month. But I'm not doing much else (apart from school :-/)
Anyway, an exert of the novel. It's kinda out of context, but one of the main characters (who is human, BTW) of the novel entered a large craft (having never seen any technology at all, being dependent on magic)
Thrayda turned the page and saw the photos. Everything started to make sense. This thing she was in had travelled from another world. So, the inhabitants of this ship must be aliens. She saw a figure huddled in the corner, bent awkwardly against the wall. She called out to it, approaching it slowly. She taped it on the shoulder twice, before turning it around with her hands. She was shocked to see that it was dead, but even more shocked to see that the face, although it had begun to rot, was unmistakeably human.
Also, I've just found out that I have to write a 10,000 to 20,000 word novel for a school competition, by the end of November. I'd love to use the same novel, but they're completely different word counts...I guess I'll just end up writing this one and then trimming it a bit.
(I'm sure we all know this, but we should probably all post a bit more than word counts here so that we don't incur the wrath of the mods ;))
"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
16 k now! Yay, I've written 10k words in 3 days. That's a lot.
No but to be more interesting and less monotonous, how does everyone think they're going? I'm going well I think, not only in the number of words, which I seem to have no problem with, but the rest of the deal too. Like development and characters etc.
A breif summary of what is so far my novel:
Tom, who is a member of an extremist group called the Movement, starts the novel off in a tunnel full of petrol, having just sabotaged a dam which flows into the tunnel he is in, in order to flood an underground city with petrol, to ruin it. He gets hit by a massive wave of petrol of his own making and almost dies, only living because of the efforts of a stranger, Jasmine, who pulls him unconcious from the tunnel. They do not get on well, and after a few attempts each to kill each other, leave the area on a dragon, to go to the island that is the home of the Wizards Elite. They arrive there and Tom finds out that it was Jasmine that almost killed him 6 years before, and in doing so killed three of his party and close companions. Tom begins to learn magic, a defianse of the Movement's values, although the Movement and the wizards figt for the same cause. He gives evidence against Jasmine being fully loyal to the Elite to his wizard tutor and...........
Meanwhile, the story of Thrayda, who was a powerful magician that passed onto the other side of the world, in doing so losing her magic. She finds a spaceship (excert above in a previous post) and is surprised that the dead inhabitants have travelled from another planet (namely Earth, which is nothing but a name to her) and are human, just like her.
That's as far as I've got, how about you guys?
BTW. Guppet, unless you try when you are writing to make the story croppable, it is hard to fit the same story in less than half the words. I did it once, and all the poeticness and subliminal messaging was lost.
I don't get this. Judging from the wording of the site, they intend you to just wirte gibberish for the sake of art with no effort to elaborate on your story? What if there were people currently in a state with nothing to do and all the free time they may wish (me) who actually want to submit a complete, detailed, well-done story? Well, I guess they still count among the many 'winners', don't they?
**** the site, the competition, anything. To me this isn't about rules, regulations or anything. To me, it's about writing a novel people might actually read. Even if no-one doesn't, I will have written a novel, which is cool in itself.
So, support from us, or support from the (stupid) site? I don't quite get you.......
Only written 1k in the last three days, been really busy (exams soon) but have done a little bit of proofreading. I need to have 30 hour days. Or 50 day months.
Have been going slow, but still ahead from the massive turbo boost of quickness at the start :p. Will hopefully write lost after the annoying exams
EDIT: Slow being 30k words, 24k in the month. Not too bad really, when I think about it
I'm at 17,000 words at the moment. I'm quite busy with exams and that with school, and I know I'm a bit behind the ideal number of words that I should be at at the moment, but I'm pretty committed to getting this done.
"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
**** the site, the competition, anything. To me this isn't about rules, regulations or anything. To me, it's about writing a novel people might actually read. Even if no-one doesn't, I will have written a novel, which is cool in itself.
QFT.
I hadn't really decided that I wanted to go for it this year, but I dabbled a bit into it and find my self just at the 4,500 word count. I won't be able to make the deadline at this rate; but if it takes two months, three, whatever, it's just supposed to help you to get writing.
A brief summary of my story:
Zombies awoken by a pumpkin king attack their village for the kings will, until the village fights back and the invasion turns into a war.
It's probably pretty easy to finish up about 10k in the last 2 or 3 days, and especially after exams, if you really want to, it's quite easy to write quite a bit. Going to write a bit soon, but I don't really need to go too fast ATM, as I am kind of fine for finishing it. Exams are :-/. meh. annoying.
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"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
Now up to 14,000, or 8,000 in the month. But I'm not doing much else (apart from school :-/)
Anyway, an exert of the novel. It's kinda out of context, but one of the main characters (who is human, BTW) of the novel entered a large craft (having never seen any technology at all, being dependent on magic)
Thrayda turned the page and saw the photos. Everything started to make sense. This thing she was in had travelled from another world. So, the inhabitants of this ship must be aliens. She saw a figure huddled in the corner, bent awkwardly against the wall. She called out to it, approaching it slowly. She taped it on the shoulder twice, before turning it around with her hands. She was shocked to see that it was dead, but even more shocked to see that the face, although it had begun to rot, was unmistakeably human.
Draft it on Cubetutor!
Maybe I'll start writing about it now
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Also, I've just found out that I have to write a 10,000 to 20,000 word novel for a school competition, by the end of November. I'd love to use the same novel, but they're completely different word counts...I guess I'll just end up writing this one and then trimming it a bit.
(I'm sure we all know this, but we should probably all post a bit more than word counts here so that we don't incur the wrath of the mods ;))
spanglegluppet dot com
"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
No but to be more interesting and less monotonous, how does everyone think they're going? I'm going well I think, not only in the number of words, which I seem to have no problem with, but the rest of the deal too. Like development and characters etc.
A breif summary of what is so far my novel:
Tom, who is a member of an extremist group called the Movement, starts the novel off in a tunnel full of petrol, having just sabotaged a dam which flows into the tunnel he is in, in order to flood an underground city with petrol, to ruin it. He gets hit by a massive wave of petrol of his own making and almost dies, only living because of the efforts of a stranger, Jasmine, who pulls him unconcious from the tunnel. They do not get on well, and after a few attempts each to kill each other, leave the area on a dragon, to go to the island that is the home of the Wizards Elite. They arrive there and Tom finds out that it was Jasmine that almost killed him 6 years before, and in doing so killed three of his party and close companions. Tom begins to learn magic, a defianse of the Movement's values, although the Movement and the wizards figt for the same cause. He gives evidence against Jasmine being fully loyal to the Elite to his wizard tutor and...........
Meanwhile, the story of Thrayda, who was a powerful magician that passed onto the other side of the world, in doing so losing her magic. She finds a spaceship (excert above in a previous post) and is surprised that the dead inhabitants have travelled from another planet (namely Earth, which is nothing but a name to her) and are human, just like her.
That's as far as I've got, how about you guys?
BTW. Guppet, unless you try when you are writing to make the story croppable, it is hard to fit the same story in less than half the words. I did it once, and all the poeticness and subliminal messaging was lost.
Draft it on Cubetutor!
If no offense was meant, none was taken. And I know none was meant.
EDIT: And your point still stands. NZ is as early as you get, GMT + 12:00
Got to 16,500 or so lateish last night, but haven't started for today yet (goddamn homework)
EDIT 2: And finishing the day with 20,000 under my belt.
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I like 4/4s for 7.
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Only written 1k in the last three days, been really busy (exams soon) but have done a little bit of proofreading. I need to have 30 hour days. Or 50 day months.
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EDIT: Slow being 30k words, 24k in the month. Not too bad really, when I think about it
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"Hello! I've come to serenade you. I can't play guitar. I can't play this accordion either, but I thought it'd be less obvious."
Dylan Moran, Black Books
QFT.
I hadn't really decided that I wanted to go for it this year, but I dabbled a bit into it and find my self just at the 4,500 word count. I won't be able to make the deadline at this rate; but if it takes two months, three, whatever, it's just supposed to help you to get writing.
A brief summary of my story:
Zombies awoken by a pumpkin king attack their village for the kings will, until the village fights back and the invasion turns into a war.
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