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NaNoWriMo 2011: Hopefully more active than last year...

Wed, 2011-10-26 02:43 — kierduros
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Okay, so the 2010 NaNoWriMo push never really got anywhere. I got very wrapped up in all sorts of other (mostly unpleasant) things.

Partially because of that, I have a whole lot of free time on my hands this year. So, hopefully I'll actually have a word count to speak of.

I'm not yet sure if I'll run with the 2010 idea of using the Seventh Sanctum generators as prompts for the novel or if I'll go back to 2009's idea of Tarot-based plot.

Either way, there will be something this year.

So, stay tuned... or, better yet, subscribe to the newsletter I've got setup so you'll always know when I update this thing. (And, maybe, just maybe, you'll get a few other bonuses along the way, too...)

NaNoWriMo 2011

Wed, 2011-10-26 01:50 — kierduros

Based on this prompt from Seventh Sanctum:

This is a psychology piece with an emphasis on how destructive knowledge can be. The story is about a school of bounty hunters. It takes place on a magical world where everyone lives underground. The story begins with a chest being opened and ends with someone writing in a diary. The role of artificial intelligence in society plays a major role in the story.

There will probably be a few changes and some wild interpretations that go on... but there's something about it that tickled my fancy.

NaNoWriMo 2010: Something Completely Random

Tue, 2010-11-02 04:35 — kierduros

It's NaNoWriMo time again and this year--even more so than previous ones--I have no idea whatsoever what I'm going to write. Even worse, it's already technically Day 2.

And so, I've decided to turn the idea generation process over to the tools of Seventh Sanctum (a site I use a lot when I'm running my various role playing games). Over there they've pulled together and/or created a large number of random generators for everything from space ship names to full story summaries. Some of the stuff is pretty wild, some of it just plain silly, and, sometimes, downright inspirational.

Needless to say, I'm hoping for the latter. :)

In that quest, I've turned to their listing of story inspiration generators. With little sense or ceremony, I've gone and opened the lot of them up in multiple tabs here in my browser and read the first auto-generated suggestion they've all produced. Then, being generally dissatisfied with that initial try, set them to generate ten ideas each.

Some interesting ones of note:Read more

Chapter 5: Playing the cards

Fri, 2009-11-13 00:55 — kierduros
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Every step of the way, each new card spread is pointing directions for the story and revealing the plot. Little by little I get more ideas for who these characters are and what they've done before, are doing now, and will be doing as the plot progresses.

As usual, though, sometimes it's tricky to tell exactly what character is supposed to appear in a scene.

At first glance, this chapter's spread appears to be one of those times.

  1. Seven of Swords (inverted)
  2. The Hanged Man
  3. Strength
  4. The Sun (Inverted)
  5. Wheel of Fortune (inverted)
  6. Knight of Swords
  7. King of Shields (inverted)
  8. The Universe
  9. King of Swords
  10. Six of Shields (inverted)

No matter what, there's some interesting progressions--especially since I'm using the Celtic Cross and Staff spread (which, as time goes on, I'm thinking may not be the best spread to use for this sort of exercise... at least not in the general chapter plotting area).Read more

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Day 4, only a week late...

Thu, 2009-11-12 03:13 — kierduros
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OK, finally got to just over my minimum for Chapter 4. That only leaves me about, oh, 10,000 words behind (give or take a thousand). Still better than previous years, though. I'm up to just over 7,000--which puts me not too far away from the most I think I ever managed to crank out during a NaNoWriMo.

So, not bad at all, actually, when put in context. :)

Counting these blog entries, I'm over 10K words.

Anyway...

In this past word dump, I seem to have introduced one of my "go to" background groups: a still kind of mysterious terrorist organization. They first appeared in my writing years ago in a story set in the far-flung future where they were greatly opposed to humans leaving the planet (or something along those lines... never did finish that story).

Based on some other bits that have come to light as the words pour from my fingers, it seems they may know about some things that most people in the world do not... and things that our main characters are going to be discovering (or, in at least two cases, re-discovering).

Only two chapters left in this section of the book. Which should work out pretty well as I've got one more main character to introduce and then I have to bring them all together so the real story can get started.Read more

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