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Oct. 30th, 2002 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7what should i write about for NaNoWriMo?
I could do that totally cyberpunk re-imagining of my novel... where I scrap the entire thing that I started in 1991 as a fantasy epic, use nothing I've already written, and start entirely over with robots and computers and Internet ghosts and very, very dubious dragons...
I could also attempt the same concept with different characters in the separately-imagined hypertext "The Inscrutable Toaster" that I started to work on concepts for 2 years ago and never got beyond the plot twists... (I actually imagined another story and combined them. The Fall of Icarus and the Inscrutable Toaster. Yeesh. Then it turned into softcore porn. Oh dear.)
The cyberpunk Novel re-working would be entertaining. I have like 400 pages of backstory, but none of it is directly reusable. I could forcefully cut myself off from it by seeing if I couldn't borrow Dave's old Newton... since I have to go to Germany and all... See, if NaNoWriMo had been September, I could've written about 300,000 words, no problem. Since it's November, I'm actually going to be busy. Silly buggers.
Well, anyhow, I'm all signed up for it, and the working title of the novel will in fact be The Inscrutable Toaster, because it's my best title so far. (I'm awful at titles.) But I think it will be reusing my novel characters, in a parallel universe or something. Where nothing they do counts.
Aw, but what about my Layla story? I came up with about 15,000 words of concept-- something massive like that-- and then ran out of time. Because my thesis was due. I only write well on a deadline. Preferably when the writing's unrelated to the deadline.
Sigh.
I think I have too much Layla already to use.
Gee, that's sort of heartening. They consider a novel to be only 50,000 words! I can write that much in a week, if I'm motivated.
So yeah. I'm going to be writing huge tracts of text. I just have to decide which one.
I'm psyched.
I just have to figure out how to write it while traveling.
Ah sweet liberation. The one thing I do, and do well, is write long, long tracts of prose. I'm nothing if not wordy.
Ah yes. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eggplantia5 for pointing NaNoWriMo out to me last year, and mentioning it again recently!
I could do that totally cyberpunk re-imagining of my novel... where I scrap the entire thing that I started in 1991 as a fantasy epic, use nothing I've already written, and start entirely over with robots and computers and Internet ghosts and very, very dubious dragons...
I could also attempt the same concept with different characters in the separately-imagined hypertext "The Inscrutable Toaster" that I started to work on concepts for 2 years ago and never got beyond the plot twists... (I actually imagined another story and combined them. The Fall of Icarus and the Inscrutable Toaster. Yeesh. Then it turned into softcore porn. Oh dear.)
The cyberpunk Novel re-working would be entertaining. I have like 400 pages of backstory, but none of it is directly reusable. I could forcefully cut myself off from it by seeing if I couldn't borrow Dave's old Newton... since I have to go to Germany and all... See, if NaNoWriMo had been September, I could've written about 300,000 words, no problem. Since it's November, I'm actually going to be busy. Silly buggers.
Well, anyhow, I'm all signed up for it, and the working title of the novel will in fact be The Inscrutable Toaster, because it's my best title so far. (I'm awful at titles.) But I think it will be reusing my novel characters, in a parallel universe or something. Where nothing they do counts.
Aw, but what about my Layla story? I came up with about 15,000 words of concept-- something massive like that-- and then ran out of time. Because my thesis was due. I only write well on a deadline. Preferably when the writing's unrelated to the deadline.
Sigh.
I think I have too much Layla already to use.
Gee, that's sort of heartening. They consider a novel to be only 50,000 words! I can write that much in a week, if I'm motivated.
So yeah. I'm going to be writing huge tracts of text. I just have to decide which one.
I'm psyched.
I just have to figure out how to write it while traveling.
Ah sweet liberation. The one thing I do, and do well, is write long, long tracts of prose. I'm nothing if not wordy.
Ah yes. Thanks to
eggplantia5 for pointing NaNoWriMo out to me last year, and mentioning it again recently!
from Liesl
Date: 2002-10-30 11:04 am (UTC)Re: from Liesl
Date: 2002-10-30 11:35 am (UTC)I'm not in a very angry-feminist mood, and it's a pretty angry-feminist story.
Still, on principle I admit that there need to be more angry-feminist stories.
But if they're too angry, then only people who are already angry feminists read them.
So there's no point.
So I might as well write it while I'm not angry. Then perhaps it will come across as more moderate and thought-provoking.
But...
can I get 50,000 words out of it?
i'll need a story arc.
Hmmmm....
time to get down to plotting. That's what I can do this afternoon... while I bake cookies.
I'm such a thoroughgoing angry feminist, I should carry a card. "I Hate Men And Bake A Mean Cookie While I Do Your Laundry." Hmm... (I'm also in the midst of some handwashing.)
Ah well. We can't all live the revolution every day. Maybe I'll get something good out of this frenzy. I might also have my own InNoWriMo-- Independent Novel Writing Month-- since I work best on deadlines, perhaps I ought to do that all the time. Followed by Independent Novel Editing Month. InNoEdMo. Oh yes.
anyhow. whee. I think I'll be giving my mankiller space pirates' rape revenge fantasy an airing this afternoon in an attempt to make it feasible novel material.
Well, strictly speaking, novella.
:-)