NaNoWriMo: It's going very badly and I've killed Hemingway again.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 1 comments link this post
I'm glad you asked.
Yes, I am writing a very terrible story. You can click on the little logo in this post to keep up on my word count and simpering samples of writing.
How bad is bad? Let me share this evening's IM with my friend Corrine, the "friend" who convinced me to do NaNoWriMo.
corrine: So I'm writing away, and I'm thinking, "Oh, man, this is sooo stupid. No one will want to read a choose your own adventure. What am I thinking?"
me: How many words are you up to now?
corrine: Should I switch it to a traditional novel?
corrine: 3,500.
me: NO.
me: I'm sticking with my stinker. You stick with yours.
corrine: So it's not the dumbest idea ever?
me: No. Mine is.
me: By the way, I'm at 4090, and boy does it REALLY suck.
me: I thought it sucked before.
me: It's really bad now.
corrine: You are like lightning.
me: I have rhinos in my plot now.
me: It's that bad.
corrine: Rhinos.
corrine: Hmmm.
corrine: Oh, that Bob.
me: No. Dan. Actually, two Dans. And one went to the zoo.
corrine: But Bob is writing the book.
corrine: How did there get to be two Dans?
me: Bob is the author. So the book will be written under the pseudonym of Bob Nihm. It's the book he was writing in the book I wrote about Bob.
me: Confusing....
me: How did there get to be two Dans?
me: I wish I could tell you that.
me: I don't know.
What's my story? Remember Bob? Corrine had the great idea of actually writing the book that Bob writes in the book that I wrote about Bob.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, the tiny bit of writing I had Bob write was Pretty. Darn. Bad. Try using that for a foundation.
Why I do these things, I don't know. You can see the large toilet this masterpiece is headed to. Well, onto my next 2500 words. Hooray!
::Could someone just tell me how to write the rhinos out of the plot? I don't know how they got in there, and I don't know what to do with them.::
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 11/02/2005 09:31:00 PM
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1 Comments:
Could someone just tell me how to write the rhinos out of the plot? I don't know how they got in there, and I don't know what to do with them.
ENTER Great White Hunter with big elephant gun.
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denise, at
November 03, 2005 8:54 PM
