NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month discussion Options

[blockhead]

hey burntsierra, nice to see there are still survivors of this nano thing.

Anyway, you all know the game 20 questions. You think of something and someone asks you twenty questions ("is it red?") in order that they can figure out what it is that you thought of.

Imagine a variation of the game. You have no idea in your mind. Someone starts asking you questions. You answer them randomly, with one constraint, they can not contradict each other.

This last is how my nano fiction has been going: utter and complete winging it with no plot, no idea. Well: yesterday I finally took a stock cliche as a plot skeleton. Now, instead of randomly throwing bandit attacks, raider attacks, a dungeon crawl etc., I'm now having events follow this plot. The writing is now much less difficult. Instead of "OMG NOW WHAT?" it's "OK, next they need to do this, now how to ... of course ..." (write write write).

The story is still lame, but it is at least a STORY now.

36000 words now, 36002 according to the nano validator.

[blockhead]

http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/214638

Bam! 51210 words, and my story is done. The world is saved the hero gets the girl, an evil mage is reformed, etc. etc.

This post has been edited by blockhead: Nov 26 2007, 02:02 AM