A Month of Writing

Posted by KaBob799 on Oct. 31, 2010, 11:36 p.m.

November is just 30 minutes away and technically Nanowrimo has already started in some timezones. I'm going to be attempting again this year, with a story set in an artifical dimension within an alternate universe.

I plan to reach the goal amount of words this year, so I've basically cleared my schedule of other projects such as games and websites. I'll probably just do a bit of work on OrbScape whenever I need a break, since it's experiencing a completely random jump in search engine popularity. An update to OrbScape can take as little as 5 minutes, so it doesn't waste much time =D

My story this year is somewhat similar to the one I tried last year. But this time it takes place on a "lost" planet instead of the moon and the mystery is about where the planet/people came from rather than somebody kidnapping a ton of people. But really, the primary difference is that this story takes place outside of the main storyline I'm using in my "books," so I don't have to worry about quality or continuity. Writing high quality stuff is just too slow for nanowrimo =p

This also means I should be able to share the story with you, unless it truly sucks. So at the very least expect to see a couple more blogs mentioning it =p I couldn't mention last years because I'm keeping my main storyline a "secret" for now.

Anyway, the main point of this blog is that if anybody else here is doing nanowrimo then they should add me as a writing buddy: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/537938

Other news: Pokemon Twilight V5 is ready for release, so I'll probably be submitting it here sometime this week.

Comments

Alert Games 14 years, 11 months ago

so whats the twilight game consisting of. i dont remember anything about it. haha.

and whats orbscape?

KaBob799 14 years, 11 months ago

Pokemon Twilight is pretty much a standard pokemon game with no official Nintendo pokemon. I think we are renaming it to just Pokemon Lunar/Solar though because the word twilight stopped being cool.

OrbScape is a jagex fansite, for stuff like runescape, stellar dawn and funorb.

F1ak3r 14 years, 11 months ago

I'm not participating this year, but I added you as a writing buddy anyway.

Advice from a finisher: complexity helps - if your story has a lot of different characters, locations, themes and subplots, you'll probably find it more fun, and thus easier to write. My story was set in two towns that had legally-mandated colour-schemes, involved dinosaur-aliens, alien-aliens, human-sacrifice-making gypsies, a maths teacher who acted like a superhero, a weird underground maze, a civil war and three different sets of viewpoint characters… and that's just what I remember. There was gonna be some stuff about a mafia and the alternate musical genre of heavy jazz, but I never ended up getting around to that.

Man, I've got to read that thing again…

KaBob799 14 years, 11 months ago

Well speaking of aliens, theres going to be 7 or so intelligent species on the planet, only 3 of which will be aliens. I already know the general ending of the story, but how it gets there is up to however many subplots I stick in.

KaBob799 14 years, 11 months ago

So nobody else is doing nanowrimo?

DesertFox 14 years, 11 months ago

I'ma going to have to do this :D

Majatek 14 years, 11 months ago

Your blog is incredibly cheesy.

/bad pun

Acid 14 years, 11 months ago

I'm doing it too!

Edit: Lol the site is buckling under the weight of the users trying to access it because it's just started. :P

KaBob799 14 years, 11 months ago

Yeah lol, this is the first time I've been able to log in today.

Right now I'm trying to calculate a couple things about the planet in my story, I've got surface area and circumferance figured out =] Now I'm trying to figure out how far away the horizon would be (this is a tiny planet, so a lot closer than on earth), dunno if I'll need that info but might as well figure it out =p