NaNoWriMo Update

Oh, things are not good.

In the past, once I get going, the story usually writes itself. Last year, when writing about the group that went through the fairy door, they just kept going and having adventures. This year I'm trying to write a suspense novel about intrigue and spying, but it's just not there. I keep plodding ahead, but the characters are pretty boring. They're just not doing anything. Ugh.

Well, I've only 1,053 words today, and I wanted to write 2,000 today. Overall I'm at 3,133 and on pace should have me at 8,000. All my data for actual vs. projected are in the negative numbers. Someone feed the muse! I'll keep trying, I think once something interesting happens, these wooden characters will get up and DO something...

Posted by: Ogre at 09:04 PM

Comments

1 Maybe reading this article that compares a common greek tragedy with S-Chip will make the creative juices flow???

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/sacrifice_and_schip.html

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 06, 2007 10:18 PM (eaqGd)

2 wow thats a lot of words dude!..heh keep on truckin!

Posted by: Angel at November 06, 2007 10:27 PM (AM2ss)

3 That's a really neat article! I love the way it ends, talking about other people sacrificing!

Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 12:02 AM (2WD8n)

4 Sounds more Libertarian than Republican... :-), and it's a really cool comparison to classic mythology too!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 12:41 AM (TzKlC)

5 Ogre, you have much more creative writing skills to entertain without getting bogged down with boring S-chip details. Write a novel about special forces adventures, like that TV show "The Unit" or the movie "Rendition".

Posted by: John Daley at November 07, 2007 09:55 AM (y2s/z)

6 Today's Libertarian position is yesterday's Republican position -- just like today's Democrat position is yesterday's communist position.

Thanks, John. I started with a novel in the present-day on a Marine base. I think that's why it's going slow -- that's pretty darn boring!

Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 12:14 PM (oifEm)

7 You need to jazz it up a bit for today's audiences. Check out Mark Harmon in that TV show "NCIS" (Naval Criminal Investigation Service?) Handsome ex-Marines (Mark Harmon) and beautiful women in distress ... military bases are pretty boring, so you need to have off-base heroin smugglers bringing in supplies from Afghanistan (with beautiful women and Blackwater guards, of course). James Bond GPS tracking gadgets and everything!

Posted by: John Daley at November 08, 2007 08:14 AM (7ppVp)

8 I don't watch much TV. But I'm working on it (not TV, the writing).

Posted by: Ogre at November 08, 2007 12:37 PM (oifEm)

9 * Comment deleted by moderator because it continued to troll without adding any substance or facts and included libelous statements *

Posted by: John Daley at November 11, 2007 08:06 AM (oN/VZ)

10 * Comment deleted by moderator because it continued to troll without adding any substance or facts *

Posted by: John Daley at November 11, 2007 09:04 PM (O0YsD)






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