Current Page: 84
Target Page: GAH!
Place in Story: Well, while I try and buy myself some time to figure out how to get Spencer out of the craphole I've dug her into, I'm revisiting Myrtle for the first time in a while. I spent a week ignoring her, but I'm pretty sure she's actually useful now in padding my word count. So, Myrtle is at a sorority party now (one she got dragged along to because she hadn't been out of the house in weeks because NOVELING!); she just got sat on by a drunk freshman who thinks that Myrtle is trans* because the freshman sat on Myrtle's pen while Myrtle was sneakily trying to write.
With regards to Spencer, I'm sure you're wondering what craphole she's gotten into. Well, her navigation and communications systems are both down (she had an idea that didn't work; instead of successfully leading the enemy ship away from the base planet of the rebellion, the King's Stiletto was brought onto the enemy flagship and sabotaged); also, the base planet of the rebellion - the only definitively friendly planet in the only definitively friendly system within a range where navigation is simple - has been overtaken by beings of a malicious nature. She found this out when getting the coordinates to the base planet (she was calling the commander of the rebellion on their backup communicator, which is kind old), and then the bad guy took over.
I have no idea what to do about this. Suggestions?
On that note, I'm going to continue to write this awkward encounter in Myrtle's world, to the sounds of drunken frolicking outside. (Since today was the game against our rivals, there's even more drunken frolicking than normal, even though we lost).
Showing posts with label rebellions. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Day 15: halfway!
Current Page: 83
Pages written today: 7.5
Target Page: please, no.
Location in story: PLOT TWIST! You thought the Mentor's death was the low point? THINK AGAIN!! EVERYTHING THAT SPENCER KNOWS AND LOVES IS ABOUT TO GO KAPUT, THANKS TO THAT CREEPY CALL THAT SHE JUST MADE! Doesn't help that her navigation and her communicators are busted, so she can't really go anywhere accurately and she has to call on her backup communications. Also, she has ten unconscious guards in her cargo hold.
Yes, that's where I am right now. I've gotten a lot done today, but I still need to keep up this pace if I want to make sure I can get my word count.
Pages written today: 7.5
Target Page: please, no.
Location in story: PLOT TWIST! You thought the Mentor's death was the low point? THINK AGAIN!! EVERYTHING THAT SPENCER KNOWS AND LOVES IS ABOUT TO GO KAPUT, THANKS TO THAT CREEPY CALL THAT SHE JUST MADE! Doesn't help that her navigation and her communicators are busted, so she can't really go anywhere accurately and she has to call on her backup communications. Also, she has ten unconscious guards in her cargo hold.
Yes, that's where I am right now. I've gotten a lot done today, but I still need to keep up this pace if I want to make sure I can get my word count.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Day 9: Second Saturday and unnecessary romance scenes
Current Page: 57
Target Page: close enough (ish)
What's happened: bad things. Very bad things. Like plot-twisting things for Spencer and Crew. To pad my word count, I wrote a romance scene between Jess and Leo in the Player Realm. Will this affect anything? Yes. It will affect my word count.
And, with the Dungeons and Dragons quest completed for the night, I'm going to bed. Goodnight.
Target Page: close enough (ish)
What's happened: bad things. Very bad things. Like plot-twisting things for Spencer and Crew. To pad my word count, I wrote a romance scene between Jess and Leo in the Player Realm. Will this affect anything? Yes. It will affect my word count.
And, with the Dungeons and Dragons quest completed for the night, I'm going to bed. Goodnight.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Day 8: spaceship chases and strange coincidences
Current Page: 50
Target: 51 (current goal: not necessarily to do 2,000 words a day, but just to stay ahead of the curve, at least a bit)
Current Place in Story: Spencer is being a hooligan by trying to distract the Emperor's ship from the base of the rebellion. Will it work? No idea; I haven't written that bit yet. (Spoiler alert: probably not).
In other news, I organized a bit of a writing session for four of us in my group of friends who are doing NaNo (there's at least one more, but he works at Starbucks, so he doesn't want to hang out at his workplace, because that's kind of weird). Anyway, we somehow got distracted in conversation for a little bit, when we learned that both my roommate and my cousin have the same initials - BNM. The weirdest thing is that the first two initials stand for the exact same name.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
My roommate is dating the guy she had a crush on in middle school. My cousin is marrying her middle school crush in March.
Okay, the similarities end there, but I still think it's really weird how that worked out.
Target: 51 (current goal: not necessarily to do 2,000 words a day, but just to stay ahead of the curve, at least a bit)
Current Place in Story: Spencer is being a hooligan by trying to distract the Emperor's ship from the base of the rebellion. Will it work? No idea; I haven't written that bit yet. (Spoiler alert: probably not).
In other news, I organized a bit of a writing session for four of us in my group of friends who are doing NaNo (there's at least one more, but he works at Starbucks, so he doesn't want to hang out at his workplace, because that's kind of weird). Anyway, we somehow got distracted in conversation for a little bit, when we learned that both my roommate and my cousin have the same initials - BNM. The weirdest thing is that the first two initials stand for the exact same name.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
My roommate is dating the guy she had a crush on in middle school. My cousin is marrying her middle school crush in March.
Okay, the similarities end there, but I still think it's really weird how that worked out.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Day 7: Plot switch?
Current Page: 43
Target Page: shut up
Place in Novel: LOOKING FOR HELP! (the characters, I mean. Okay, and me too, kind of)
So many of you may realize that, before NaNo started this year, I had a pretty cool concept. The issue is, as you may have noticed, that I didn't really have a plot to go with this cool world I had come up with. Thinking back on it, what I did have was way to isolated in one story - I could have followed Jess through all her tales, or something like that.
So my plot this year is in a weird spot. I'm keeping in the Players, to make sure I can use all the words possible, but I'm pretty much separated from what I initially planned. Instead, I'm ripping a bit off of Star Wars and making the novel-ception (because that's technically what it is, strictly speaking... I'll go back and fix it later) the main plot of the story. From here on out, you'll hear fewer updates on Jess, Marcus, Leo, Tobias, Fabian, and Chelsea, and more updates on Spencer, Keegan, Arthur, Matthias, the Emperor, and Electra. Just to let you know.
Target Page: shut up
Place in Novel: LOOKING FOR HELP! (the characters, I mean. Okay, and me too, kind of)
So many of you may realize that, before NaNo started this year, I had a pretty cool concept. The issue is, as you may have noticed, that I didn't really have a plot to go with this cool world I had come up with. Thinking back on it, what I did have was way to isolated in one story - I could have followed Jess through all her tales, or something like that.
So my plot this year is in a weird spot. I'm keeping in the Players, to make sure I can use all the words possible, but I'm pretty much separated from what I initially planned. Instead, I'm ripping a bit off of Star Wars and making the novel-ception (because that's technically what it is, strictly speaking... I'll go back and fix it later) the main plot of the story. From here on out, you'll hear fewer updates on Jess, Marcus, Leo, Tobias, Fabian, and Chelsea, and more updates on Spencer, Keegan, Arthur, Matthias, the Emperor, and Electra. Just to let you know.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Day 5: Suddenly, BACKSTORY!
Current Page: 35
Target Page: can we just not do this bit? It's kind of embarrassing... okay, it's 38. MAY I WARN YOU, HOWEVER, THAT 38 WILL PUT ME AT OVER 10,000 WORDS. TECHNICALLY I'M WELL ON MY WAY TO 50,000 WORDS.
Pages to go: none, because I'm going to bed soon and waking up early.
What's happened so far: there's been character development and relationship development! HUZZAH! Accompanied by the soundtrack of Star Wars: A New Hope (what was available in one YouTube playlist, anyway), as well as the sounds of ThePianoGuys (whom you should all go look up on YouTube RIGHT NOW), my characters have discussed the loneliness of space and the fact that there is ridiculously cool life on other planets. They also discussed rebellions and the fact that the love interest has the wide-eyed enthusiasm of a twelve-year-old in the body of...
I just realized I haven't assigned anyone an age yet. Well, this is plenty awkward.
I mean, I know that the characters are all in their late teens or early twenties, but still.
You know what? That's good enough. I'm going to bed.
Target Page: can we just not do this bit? It's kind of embarrassing... okay, it's 38. MAY I WARN YOU, HOWEVER, THAT 38 WILL PUT ME AT OVER 10,000 WORDS. TECHNICALLY I'M WELL ON MY WAY TO 50,000 WORDS.
Pages to go: none, because I'm going to bed soon and waking up early.
What's happened so far: there's been character development and relationship development! HUZZAH! Accompanied by the soundtrack of Star Wars: A New Hope (what was available in one YouTube playlist, anyway), as well as the sounds of ThePianoGuys (whom you should all go look up on YouTube RIGHT NOW), my characters have discussed the loneliness of space and the fact that there is ridiculously cool life on other planets. They also discussed rebellions and the fact that the love interest has the wide-eyed enthusiasm of a twelve-year-old in the body of...
I just realized I haven't assigned anyone an age yet. Well, this is plenty awkward.
I mean, I know that the characters are all in their late teens or early twenties, but still.
You know what? That's good enough. I'm going to bed.
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