To create a write-like feel

A friend of mine had a NaNoWriMo poster today, she was obviously planning to put it somewhere to let people know about that great event. So, we just started talking about our upcoming NaNovels (she’s set on winning this time and I’m just going to prove something. What and to whom, I don’t know, but it’s just a part of my weird mind to be like that (: ). She told me she had a few characters planned (and they did sound interesting!), and I’m quite envious because I’m not sure about anything at this point. I’ve done this before, of course, but one still gets a little nervous.

So what I came up with during our shortish conversation was some sort of an rpf+God-thingy featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in some form ^^ *insert a bit of fangirling* (I spent the weekend listening to Fry’s podgrams and so on). I remember planning a few NaNos ahead and there definitely was a God+Heaven themed thing amongst them, and, well… I think this suits me fine.

But I hadn’t really realised we were so close to November, but oh dear, nanowrimo.org is already closed for whatever they do during this week! This year I’m not going to be one of the first ones to spam the forums (thanks to having a maths exam, several hours of physics lab and singing lesson on the 1st) but that isn’t so relevant as I’m going to be spamming there anyway!

I’m so excited!

I’ve met – not the love of my life, but a thing which makes my life easier: Q10, a lovely program for NaNoing. It’s a full screen writing program, and there’s a timer system which allows me to word war myself all the time without staring at the clock. And it sounds like a typewriter!

With the help of q10 I’ve reached 35k today (that’s already over 5,000 words for this weekend!) and now I hear the angels humming the victory march.. (what do you mean by ‘you’ve apparently read the Breaking news box’?) I’ve felt all the time that I’m a little behind (though I wasn’t) but now that feeling is gone, and the remaining 15k should be an easy one.

So what have I written? In October, I walked outside with a bouquet of dead flowers (I was going to throw them away) and I had this picture of a dark wedding, where the flowers would be dead and everything would be dark. I wrote that scene yesterday, and that brought in an interesting turn of my plot. I’ll have to work hard if I want to tie it all together. The endings are my weak part, I can actually write 50k of a story and know little about how it’s going to end.  Maybe I’ll finally get to that murdering people point, but I want to get this one finished, I really do.

I feel I’ve neglected my MMC a bit, because my FMC has a more interesting life. I don’t want to listen to him complaining about the lack of electricity all the time, so the solution is obviously getting FMC Elizabeth married :D And someone in the picture is a jerk, but I don’t know who it is… probably me. I just feel being a little too close to the story, that I can remember only the current moment, not what’s been said or done a couple hundred words earlier. Realism gets thrown into the wind:

I was crying against his shoulder… [insert some random and confused thinking] … I laughed at him…

(Baaaad translation and as bad example, but you get my meaning.)

I haven’t yet written one single word today, and it’s almost 10pm. But I did buy some reward chocolate, and I’m still being realistic if I say I’ll pass the 30k line today. I ended up spending too long in the internet looking for a certain song or at least information about it. We’ll see.

Seems that I didn’t have anything to say.  29,068/50,000.

I didn’t quite reach 10k yesterday (I had a terrible stomachache and my eyes were sore), but I did watch some Yes Minister. Anyhow, I’m feeling better today, and just hit 10k (911 words today, I’m aiming for another 1,000 tonight). Should probably try some word-warring or something. I realised I was about to write “And then we walked to our house”, for the like third time, and that that would make a pretty boring novel.

Well, there’ll be this walking scene, but once I make it to the evening, there’ll be some interesting events. Maybe I’ll even get to introduce my FMC ;) And I haven’t really described my MMC’s looks or anything, I only know that so far he’s dressed in a black sweater and black trousers, but that’s about it. But I really need another PoV to describe him, I don’t want to use that cliché of “I glanced into the mirror and saw a tall, pale boy…” And I already used that last year :D

So far, my characters have moved into their new home in a lonely, isolated village, spent their first day and first night there (mostly sleeping, btw ^^), visited the village twice and found a Halloween pumpkin on their doorstep, and met a couple of the weirdo people in the village. Now I’ll have to arrange some sort of activity for them for a few hours before a Halloween party. Maybe they could find something in the attic or there could be something like a burglary. Hmm…

That’s 10,027 words written in about 11 hours.

NaNoWriMo 2007 has started! I’ve written 279 words and already have doubts about my choice of PoV. I know it’s still so early I could change that, but I’m not sure if I want to do that either. Well, I’ll worry about that when I edit – if I edit. But I like the text this far, it’s much more fluent than SC.

I’ll go on writing now, updates will follow.

Hamnet (2006) is a story about a young boy and a young girl, who won’t fall in love with each other, ’cause that would be cliché. Hamnet is a wizard (graduated from The Olde Wizarding School), but not a very good one (except in theoretical magic). The story’s set in an extraordinary world called Holeworld (based on my writings for English class), where there is rumoured to be a hole in the middle (not confirmed, however). Hamnet gets swept away from his school and he meets a girl called Celia. And the adventure will- has already begun! I’ll not spoil the events in case someone finds the draft when I die and decides to publish it, but it makes me laugh (which isn’t hard, so no hopes up).

The following is perhaps the best piece of writing nonsense in the whole thing. You try to write a simple sentence… It’s about the town-naming traditions in Holeworld.

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Well yes, I did (and still do) have a Finnish writing blog (mainly for making a fuss about NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy), but then Miccoh suggested I should have an English blog (for having international fans, rolling my eyes here). The real reason for me being here, however, is the much nicer layout (the Finnish blog, too many boxes). And now I’ll get some practice for my English, though I’ll probably post also in Finnish – can’t think in a foreign language after writing 2,000 words per day and going to school.

Anyway, this year I’ll take part in my second NaNo, and as you can see in my sidebar in the future (I hope so!), I won the first one (i.e. wrote 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days), which was great – I started with no intentions to even try to reach the goal, but in the early days I began to think I was seriously in it. I’m also a Screnzy ‘07 (World Premiere!) winner, but I’ll talk about that later.

Hamnet, my NaNovel ‘06 was kind of a… fantasy/adventure thing, though pretty humoristic (or so I think). It’s not trying to be ’serious’ fantasy or anything, but it owes a lot to Terry Pratchett. Writing it was fun. November 1. we had a snow storm, so our bus was half an hour late and I almost missed a Swedish word test. Damn for that. I started on lunch break, since I had fallen asleep and couldn’t start writing at midnight. I rewarded myself with chocolate and crossed the finish line Nov 24. And if you want to see what I wrote, click the ‘more’ button [it's in Finnish, and it's not the first thing I'll be translating. Sorry :) ]

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