NANOWRIMO THE 2017

[mitchermitcher]

https://nanowrimo.org/

 

It's that time of the year again, when everyone tries(and most likely fails) to write something. Discuss etc etc. Also would appreciate a story idea or two being thrown around.

[Maeriberii Haan]

Probably gonna the be the first Nanowrimo after my first time that I won't attempt to write anything for. Finding time is a jabroni.

 

Good luck to peeps that are going to attempt this!

[mitchermitcher]

Probably gonna the be the first Nanowrimo after my first time that I won't attempt to write anything for. Finding time is a jabroni.

 

Good luck to peeps that are going to attempt this!

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

[Maeriberii Haan]

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

A boy fell in love with a girl. Unable to confess, he is gifted with a deus ex machina...

[Hallohallo]

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

A selfish transfer student from Ireland is cursed. The only way to break the curse is for him to become selfless.

[Yui]

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

One of a couple gets bitten in a zombie apocalypse and the other just can't bring themselves to put their better half out of their misery.

[Darj]

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

 

A marvelous weapon falls in front of you from the sky out of the sudden. You pick it up, granting you incredible, supernatural powers. But then you have both angels and devils looking for you.

[Catterjune]

THROW ME SOME IDEAS

 

- Vampires versus Zombies versus Humans

 

- After the death of her father, a girl discovers she's actually been a robot this whole time

 

- The world's unluckiest man wins the lottery, so his wife hires a hitman to kill him so she can take all his money. The only problem is, his own bad luck keeps saving him from his inevitable death. A comedy, of course.

[Dr. Cakey]

- The world's unluckiest man wins the lottery, so his wife hires a hitman to kill him so she can take all his money. The only problem is, his own bad luck keeps saving him from his inevitable death. A comedy, of course.

Oh hey, isn't this the plot of Danganronpa 2?

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is not the plot of Danganronpa 2.

 

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Man, I know the Creative Writing forum is deader than whatever came before disco, but I wish there was still a public planning thread. Recently I've been wanting that little extra nudge I can't get by myself.

[mitchermitcher]

Man, I know the Creative Writing forum is deader than whatever came before disco, but I wish there was still a public planning thread. Recently I've been wanting that little extra nudge I can't get by myself.

Well, we could always discuss some ideas here like the thread was meant to be. What kinda thing do you want to write?

 

In the end I settled on an idea I had a long time ago. Thanks for all the ideas regardless, thread.

[Dr. Cakey]

Well, we could always discuss some ideas here like the thread was meant to be. What kinda thing do you want to write?

Well it has nothing to do with Nanowrimo, but I've been turning over the concept for a YGO fic. I've got some plot ideas and a smattering of characters, but it's just not "enough". I like all the elements, but they haven't come together yet. I've never asked for or wanted ideas for characters or plots before, but for the past couple days I've been wondering if some outside ideas might fill in the gaps or give me a spark or whatever. But I'm not sure what to ask for. I could say "Someone give me a character/story concept/element of setting/etc" but that seems way too nonspecific and unlikely to be any help.

[mitchermitcher]

Well it has nothing to do with Nanowrimo, but I've been turning over the concept for a YGO fic. I've got some plot ideas and a smattering of characters, but it's just not "enough". I like all the elements, but they haven't come together yet. I've never asked for or wanted ideas for characters or plots before, but for the past couple days I've been wondering if some outside ideas might fill in the gaps or give me a spark or whatever. But I'm not sure what to ask for. I could say "Someone give me a character/story concept/element of setting/etc" but that seems way too nonspecific and unlikely to be any help.

Well, I suppose an unprompted 'give me an idea' really is hard to deal with(ironic enough i did the same thing).

 

Can you identify what's 'missing' in your list of ideas? What's lacking that you would need to bring them all together? For example, things I write tend to lack an actual early plot so even though I plan out how characters develop out by the end, I often have no way to make my characters begin developing.

[Catterjune]

Well it has nothing to do with Nanowrimo, but I've been turning over the concept for a YGO fic. I've got some plot ideas and a smattering of characters, but it's just not "enough". I like all the elements, but they haven't come together yet. I've never asked for or wanted ideas for characters or plots before, but for the past couple days I've been wondering if some outside ideas might fill in the gaps or give me a spark or whatever. But I'm not sure what to ask for. I could say "Someone give me a character/story concept/element of setting/etc" but that seems way too nonspecific and unlikely to be any help.

 

 

If you're anything like me, you're probably bad at writing but you're really good at nitpicking.

 

To get your ideas out of your head and onto like.... a readable format, you should write your ideas down. Write them as long or as short as you need them to be. Write out a sentence: "Team Shuffle and Cut was the greatest Pro Dueling Team ever!" or write out full lines of dialogue, parts of a scene, stupid one-liners and jokes that you REALLY want to include. Whatever you want.

 

> "Team Sack? I don't get it."

> "That's S-A-C. Shuffle and Cut!"

 

Then go take a break. Come back to it in an hour or a day or a week or two. Read what you wrote, and then start nitpicking from there.

 

> "Best Pro Dueling Team? What exactly does that mean?"

> "Who thought up the name Team Shuffle and Cut?"

 

Answer your own questions as you come along.

 

> "They do Tag Duels so... it's two people? But they sometimes need alternates so it's a four person team? Yeah... okay!"

> "Character A and Character B thought up the name... which I guess makes them the founding members? They're probably the friendliest, or at least have known each other the longest."

 

And then just kind go from there. You slowly start filling out more and more until you have a really good grasp about your world, your characters, and the situation they're in.

 

Constantly be asking yourself questions as you go along. And don't worry about writing it all at once. Don't be one of those people who are like...

 

"I MUST complete Chapter 1 to 100% certainty before I can even THINK! about Chapter 2"

 

Sorta work on all your chapters all at the same time and get them to various states of completion. "Chapter 1 is ~70% done. Chapter 2 is ~20%. I got like, two lines of dialogue I really want to include for chapter 3 since it's a funny chapter. I got an idea for the final turn of the duel in Chapter 4. I really wanna include Character C in Chapter 5." and just kinda work from there.

 

That's kinda why I stay away from Nanowrimo cause there's a huge leap between "writing" and "writing something of quality someone may actually want to read". I mean, it's a good springboard, but everyone treats it like it's the final draft. Writing a fanfic isn't like high school where the first draft and the final draft are the same thing.

 

If you're nothing like me though, and you suck at nitpicking, feel free to send your notes to me. I love tearing apart other people's work. ;D

 

 

tl;dr - The first step to writing is (duh) to write. The second, and much more important step is to nitpick your work and edit it into something presentable.