Watcha Writin'?

[aimeeandbeatles]

I finished the first scene. Now I just need to finish the second scene.

I ran the whole thing through I Write Like. Agatha Christie.

 

[Zkribbler]

Another 450 words in Chapter 2. Again I'm allegedly writing like Anne Rice.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I threw the third scene of my chapter in. It said Stephen King.

 

[Synobun]

Y'all are way too invested in that thing.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's fun...

 

[Synobun]

Insomuch as copy-pasting something into a text field and getting a random name returned is classified as fun, I suppose.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

@Zkribbler just curious, do you write in past or present-tense? I write mostly in present, except for flashback sequences which are in past. I wonder if that might explain a lot of your Agatha Christie results.

 

[Zkribbler]

do you write in past or present-tense?

Past, always.

I wonder if that might explain a lot of your Agatha Christie results.

I read somewhere that she tends to use simple words and simple sentences. I have that tendency as well.

 

[Zkribbler]

Chapter 2 done -- 3,923 words for both chapters.
Chapter 2 written like Agatha Christie.
I have a McGuffin problem. Crimelord Ash wants something incredibly valuable out of the earl's palace. I nave no idea what it could be.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have a McGuffin problem. Crimelord Ash wants something incredibly valuable out of the earl's palace. I nave no idea what it could be.

Clearly it's Agatha Christie's mummified head!

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I have a McGuffin problem. Crimelord Ash wants something incredibly valuable out of the earl's palace. I nave no idea what it could be.

His wife?

 

[Zkribbler]

His wife?

Naw. During one of my main character's imprisonments, his fiancee wandered away and married the local earl.
Besides, I think Ash may turn out to be gay.
There are undead popping up willy-nilly in this story. I think the McGuffin mat be something to put them back to sleep.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I finish chapter.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I posted a chapter of my fanfic yesterday. Got another kudos.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I'm writing an original short story... er, well, I'm at least giving it a try. We'll see what happens.

 

[Zkribbler]

I'm writing an original short story.

You, go.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I have maybe converted another person to trying the computer game my Kingmaker/King's Heir epic is based on. That's good, because when I finally get this thing finished and posted, it would help if the readers had some familiarity with the source material.

It's frustrating that Camp NaNoWriMo is starting in a couple of days and all of a sudden pages and pages are demanding to be written NOW. Dammit, Edmund, can't you wait? And Julia, you picked an inconvenient time to have that baby! Even if it is the next heir to the throne and I already named her over a year ago, just a couple more days, but nooOOOoooo. I had to write the scene when Randall's told the baby is coming now, before the dialogue that popped into my head disappeared.

Such is the writing process when one is hopping among three different versions of the story, over a period of years and decades. I've got two characters' death scenes plotted, and they're not scheduled to die for at least another 30-50 years.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I started on another writing project. This one's not a fanfiction though. I'm still in the outliney process.

 

[Zkribbler]

It seems my thief story has run face-first into writer's block. I've been trying various ways of getting my cyclops into the story, but it just wouldn't go. It finally contorted itself into another story entirely--a crossover between the Odyssey and Star Trek/Galaxy Quest. I tried a couple of beginnings for this new story, but in the words of Truman Capote, "That's not writing. That's typing," I've realized that "Who Mourns for Adonis" notwithstanding," Greek gods have no place in a far-future star-faring tale. Without Poseidon to block Odysseus' way home, I need another nemesis. I chose...um...Helen and to a lesser extent Menelaus .

Camp NaNoWriMo is starting in a couple of days...

I shall take a whack at Camp NaNoWriMo.

For "Star Odyssey," I guesstimate I can do 500 words per day because Homer has already outlined it for me. I shall need a couple of days off for trips to Tag and a day to do my taxes. So max, I can do [500 X (31-3)] = 14,000 words. Ehhh, I'll aim for 12,000 but will tell them 10,000.