50,000 words in 30 days

(... Just don't mind the subject line. It's an inside joke, actually.)

Cutting down the number of our remaining LJs, and this one goes on 31st. NaNoWriMo stuff, when the time comes, will be posted at heta_noitio.

The vampires decided to morph into a flock of bats and fly out of the window.

The Light Agents never did catch the Viewer, and the Dark Agent decided he didn't give a damn after all.

The girl who got fed up with her peers missed the vampire at the bar.

The grumpy old mentor did his best to avoid our orphaned hero, and succeeded.

BUT HIGH SCHOOL BOYS CAN'T RUN FROM ME!

... Erm, yes, I'm writing fluffy high school slash this year. I've got a whole story in my head, and it wants out, and I haven't even left the beginning and I have around 15K written already... I like them. Jerome's fun, Lisa's fun, and Mr Jackson especially is fun. Arr!

So. *draws a deep breath and releases it slowly* I, Paju, a Writer, the Owner of a Great Imagination Which Comes Up With Unicorns and Aliens in the Same Thought, the Original Habitant of the Tool, and a Devout Participant of NaNoWrimo welcome thee, October of 2007, in hopes of making it to November - and this year's NaNoWriMo - sane.

There we go. Dramatic much? ("ADD much?") Yes, I know. Practising? For what? I'm not going to write any high fantasy which involves a lot of titles and long introductions of one's self. Unless... Hmm. Maybe- but know, it would only seem silly. Thought that. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, like I suspected, it's going to be urban fantasy this years. Vampires instead of weird, weird men (no more of that now), and slashy vampires at that. Well. Nau (sand_king) helped me decide; thanks, sweetie. *huggle* I had this idea after an... exam? Yes/no? No, it was before the exam week began. I scribbled it to my NaNo '07 notebook - more like filled six pages with tiny handwriting - and it's been rolling around in my mind ever since.

I've been avoiding thinking about it too much because that results to over-plotting, worrying and getting stuck when you start to think you can't stray from the path you laid down weeks ago. So; I've got the outline, I know most of what I want to happen but only some of how, and I know who I'll be working with. (Note to self: do NOT name the vampire Michael.)

Off to wander about the forums. And write the notes down with Word.

I just noticed that I haven't posted chapter 17 for THWF despite having written it ages ago.

Erm.

I'm really, really sorry right now. I honestly thought that I had posted it already. I'll see to it asap.

(For those of you interested in the status of THWF: it is currently on hiatus, but not given up on. I'm waiting for an inspiration as I have the rest of the story outlined, but writing it is... difficult at its best. I like the story too much to let it end to where it ends now.)

I realised that NaNoWrimo 2007 is only 109 days away. Um, panic? No, not me. Merely a significant amount of worrying about it. I'm probably going for urban fantasy again (the vampires aren't leaving me alone!), but I'm not sure about the language. Last year I thought I'd write in Finnish this year, but... I'm not sure. It's true that I should be practising my Finnish skills - a scary thought - but I like English too much. Argh, maybe I should do it in Finnish just because. Yeah. Okay.

"So far the only thing I have established is that I'm writing urban fantasy again, but everything else is pretty much vague at this point. I have this fantastic idea I'd love to use, but the problem is that I've been writing it as a fanfic (which it originally is) and copying the story and some of the scenes from there feels like cheating because then I would have written part of the story already. -_-' Perhaps I should ask about this on the forum."

This is my only problem right now. The idea is so fantastic, honestly, and it wouldn't be exactly the same, but I still feel a bit queasy about using it. Not literally copy-pasting it, of course, but taking the idea and some of the scenes and using them in the novel.

"Previously written prose, though, is punishable by death."

Erg.

EDIT: After browsing through 18 or so pages in Rules, Regulations and Other Minutiae, it became clear that this is allowed as long as I don't take text from or continue writing the previous story. Recycling old ideas is okay. *dances*

I'm finally starting to write this story again. It has been laying on my desk (figuratively) for months now, and it's time to shake the dust off and get back to work. This will be published, goddamnit.

So, I've written the beginning of the second chapter, I'll probably write some tonight (or not, I should really go to sleep early today, as tomorrow - yes, it's that late - is a school day). Or better, I'll move the file to my laptop since I mostly write upstairs after 10PM. I can plan there better, too, because the net distracts me here. ^^' Self-control, hehe.

I... well. All I really need to do now is gather those character profiles and write. When I'm done with the chapters I can focus on editing them, word counts etc.

The point of this post is that I'm not dead and neither is the story. I'm too stubborn to give up now. (Actually, a story I write for my own amusement hit 30,500 words yesterday. Ironic, isn't it? If I can't get this one past 30K, I consider that I failed at this. I. Don't. Like. Failing.)

Period.

... due to my upcoming exams and a very busy week. -.-' I've got something on the every day of the week except today. And Sunday, but Sunday will be as full of writing and studying as possible. I'm behind with about three thousand words but I refuse to worry about it because the weekend is coming and I slept unusually much last night (seven and half hours) so I can stay up a bit tonight.

Today was the day when I finally began to doubt my story. I was actually wondering when that would happen. *amused* I was thinking about Lucifer's and Sephiel's personalities and if they were changing too much in every chapter. I try to keep them in line, but what can a writer do? Sephiel still has his naïve streak, and Lucifer's a fierce believer. I refuse to let my inner critic out of her chains, though she's struggling awfully much. I'll read all the text I've written tomorrow, scribble down some facts I'll need later on and things that need to be fixed later on.

There was something I wanted to say... Oh. I'm sorry I haven't been able to comment on everyone's posts during the week, I'll try to catch up tomorrow. ^_^'

Ignore the bullshit I wrote earlier today. *shakes her head* I just read Nau's NaNo-journal and she mentioned that she's gonna Friends-lock the chapter posts in case she wants to publish the novel later on. I can't understand why I didn't come up with it myself. *dumbstruck*

Anyway; now, cearney, you get to read it after all! ^____^ Sorry for the confusion.

As some of you might have read from my profile, I won't post whole chapters to this journal - only excerpts. The reason to this is that I plan on going for publishing with this novel. I really, really want to publish a book before I die - something I'll be remembered from - and I feel this is it. I'm sorry, but this is what I've decided. (Now my inner pessimist is going, "No one would have read your lousy novel, anyway.")

On the other hand, good news: the first half of the outline is almost done, I've solved a few plotholes I noticed I had, and decided to twist some things around quite rudely. Now I'm just looking for a title and the other half of my story. I've got some quotes written down but nothing major; just a little detail here, a little detail there...

But yeah. The working title is 'How the Mighty Have Fallen'. It isn't exactly fitting, and is a bit of a cliche, so I'm looking for a new one.

( Titles I found from the board )

Snagged from dreamoflight

( Meme )

I was trying to decide between the two plots today and suddenly I had ten of them! Each one a little different, and then this one in which I combined two plots. I've got low fantasy, a murder mystery, a vampire story, a supernatural tale, an agent novel, some really weird stuff about demons... They'd all be good ideas if I could just decide which one to work on.

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Registered today, send a few messages to this and this topic... My username is Paju. The forum is fucking huge now that it's completely opened. o.O

( Rambling )

What happens when a young woman decides to participate in NaNoWriMo on September 25th?

Nothing healthy, trust me. I've just begun high school (though I lately decided to graduate after four years and not the usual three), my second exam week will be in the middle of November and I'm the secretary of our school's students' council.

As if I wasn't busy enough I decided to try and write a 200-page novel in 30 days. I haven't got the slightest idea about what I will write. I write frequently but I've only twice got something done.

However.

The decision is done, the plans are in the making and I am not going to back away.

Fear me, keyboard. Fear me.