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Post by Billie on Nov 27, 2006 13:42:21 GMT -5
Oh, you get Honorable Mention, Shala. I just have to stick with characters from my universe. I love Kitty Pryde, but I can't have her, and I'm sure as heck not selling my guys to Marvel! (They don't need any more super heroes anyhow.) Sensai, if I actually finish this book and get it into some vague form that has enough story to follow, I may offer to e-mail it to you regulars, if you are really interested. At the moment, I have an epilogue but no climactic scene. I think the big showdown happens in Vegas, though. That's too much fun to pass up--I just have to put my guy who can sense the value of inanimate objects in the one place on Earth where every single thing is fake! He'll be dizzy. And Aidin, you should know better than to eat M&M's and surf the Net at the same time!
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Post by Shala-ren on Nov 27, 2006 22:04:33 GMT -5
oh I didn't mean use her....DL on heros is very much like her.
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Post by dlure on Nov 27, 2006 23:08:50 GMT -5
Wish I would have seen this before now.
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Post by Billie on Nov 27, 2006 23:29:20 GMT -5
Welcome back, D'Lure!
Have ye any ideas for anything that you've heard about? Lemme know. ;D
Now to make the goal of Thursday, with my job and TV and famille. I'm nervous I won't make it .
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Post by summer on Nov 28, 2006 12:37:38 GMT -5
Welcome back, D'Lure! Have ye any ideas for anything that you've heard about? Lemme know. ;D Now to make the goal of Thursday, with my job and TV and famille. I'm nervous I won't make it .
Name the villian Vortex. Or The Vortex. It's awesome.
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Post by SenSai on Nov 28, 2006 17:27:41 GMT -5
Roger Walford for a real name oh and make sure he has some hightened ability to offset the seekers abilities like unnatiural aim or memory cognitive abilities psychotic understanding of a persons will which he can then bend etc etc
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Post by SenSai on Nov 28, 2006 17:29:06 GMT -5
if you have any other plot dilemas send me a message and ill get back to you ASAP
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Post by Billie on Nov 28, 2006 19:15:58 GMT -5
Roger Walford for a real name It's a chic. [And her power is technokinesis. She makes robots which shouldn't really be able to work because she's the one who gives them life. This gets around Seeker's ability to spot traps and stuff because if the robots mess with objects, it leaves no psychic trace and its in effect a blind spot to him.] [And no, it's not a rip from that kid in Heroes. He just fixes telephones and disassembles $2000 laptops. ] P.S. I was stuck in an office for eight hours today and filled half of a yellow legal pad with scenes and paragraphs. Now I just have to type it up. I have no idea if its enough to push me over the 50K goal, but we'll see. Cross your fingers for me.P.P.S. I still have no idea for the climactic showdown in Vegas, nor a name for my female lead, but her company is called the Ghost Shift Corporation (they make robots).
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Post by SenSai on Nov 29, 2006 7:30:04 GMT -5
You could have told me it was a girl >.< Ilana Thudan - Ghost Master And lets see this showdown in Vegas seeker have a loved one could always have her capture his loved one. Have him then try to save her using his power to find weps and clues and such crud. Also if hes made any freinds over the past bring them with him could always use a few pawns to die. Blah Blah Blah find the one item on her person which she values most pschoticly so say ur gonna destroy it she gives up you win. Alternate fight in Vegas Seeker has finally figured out who she and where she is currently through use of his power newspapper clipping and such about a person of immense power.... Blah Blah Blah tracks down clues. He then goes and tries to figure out to beat her and sits in one of the casinos where all this fake stuff is at. He eventually finds that even though its fake there are still things of great vaule. this jumpstarts his mind if he can find something like that to use agaisnt her he might win. Searches blah blah blah finds something ( such as the Al Capone's body *laughs*) goes and fights wins. Can always use the important object on person thing and pawns for this scenario too. Cheering rejoices.
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Post by SenSai on Nov 29, 2006 7:31:19 GMT -5
if you dont like them tell me ive got about a dozen more
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Post by summer on Nov 29, 2006 11:37:21 GMT -5
Isabelle VanSinge aka Life's Breath
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Post by Billie on Nov 30, 2006 21:06:42 GMT -5
50K FOR TEH WIN!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Clicky here to see a beautiful bargraph of my progress all month: www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=157114Here's the congratulations note you get when you upload enough words in your doc: Dear Novelist,
You did it.
Despite everything else going on in your busy life, you managed to pull off the creative coup of writing a 50,000-word novel in just one month.
When the going got tough, you got typing, and in four weeks, you built vast worlds and set them in motion. You created characters; quirky, interesting, passionate souls with lives and loves and ambitions as great as yours. You stuck it out through the notoriously difficult middle stretch, and pressed onward as 80% of your fellow writers dropped out around you.
And now look at you: A NaNoWriMo winner. And the owner of a brand-new, potential-filled manuscript. It's an amazing accomplishment, and we're proud to have had you writing with us this year. Thank you, everyone, for all saying nice things and giving me ideas and words of enouragment. And thanks to Conrad for telling us all about the entire contest thing (before vanishing again for yet another undisclosed period ). For the record, the book itself is not finished, but it has a structure and I know most of what goes into it. I had a great idea for the climactic sequence last night, so I know the exact location, I know who dies, and I know all the denouement. For those of you who are truly interested (and several of you have expressed sincere interest), I'll promise you this: bug me again in one week exactly, and I'll let you know if I've mopped up the details. If I've stalled, then I shall at least e-mail the file as is to whomever would like to see it, and you can have a read and see what it is we've all been talking about. Then we can all chat in an informed manner about what the book still needs and what it doesn't. And now, I am going to hook up my Nintendo Wii that has been sitting in a box unopened for days while I took care of my writerly obligations! "I'll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places," Day
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Post by dlure on Nov 30, 2006 21:41:17 GMT -5
Yay!! Way to go Billie!!
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Post by Shala-ren on Nov 30, 2006 21:44:50 GMT -5
awesome!!!! way to go! and just so you know you've inspired me to dust off the old story of Shala the dragon I've never finished and actually try to finish it.
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Post by summer on Dec 1, 2006 10:10:10 GMT -5
Wow, you're done! And by the looksof that bar graph there was only two days in an entire month that you didn't write.
Very impressive and good luck finishing it!
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Post by simmuskhan on Dec 2, 2006 22:35:47 GMT -5
An inspiration to us all! Well, not enough to make me wanna get up and write myself, but awesome job mate! Sim.
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Post by AidinStark on Dec 4, 2006 6:34:03 GMT -5
I'm a little late seeing this but, congratulations Billie.
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Post by SenSai on Dec 11, 2006 21:59:51 GMT -5
alright maam lay the story on us billie
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Post by Billie on Dec 12, 2006 23:05:59 GMT -5
OK:My novel is 96% complete. I just have to insert the scenes I wrote today and I'll let you look at it. Understand that for the most part, it chugs right along, but there are little transition details missing, some conversations are incomplete, the order of the chapters may not be final (!), a few names are missing, the continuity is flexible, I don't know what one key object is/does, and the climactic scene is currently in synopsis form only. So don't let that disappoint you. I'm curious to know if what is present is worth fixing, so I'd welcome some honest opinions. I'm not looking for praise, just honest assessments of any kind. The document was written in Open Office (an .odt file extension) and I've found that some programs won't open that kind of file, so please specify what kind of word processor you have. I can save it as a Microsoft Word .doc which would probably work for most of you, I expect. (Or do ya want .txt or .html?) If you are interested in reading it, post here or send me a personal message and include your RL e-mail address. I'll mail you the book tomorrow or when I get your message. Please don't pass it around the 'Net, in case I want to sell this to someone someday.
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Post by Billie on Oct 1, 2007 13:55:47 GMT -5
ONE YEAR LATER!Alright gang, the moment I've been waiting for is here. In thirty days, the 2007 National Novel Writing Month begins, and I've been waiting for this since last December! I've got so many ideas. Go here for more details: www.nanowrimo.org/Sing-ups start tonight and you've got a full month to think on it, if you're not sure. I can only say that it was a great experience for me personally last year, and I can't wait to start writing again. I'm going to post over at the FX LOTRO website as well, just to see if anyone who is not familiar with SWG Fatal X'Ceptions is interested. And Tailorman, are you still out there?
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Post by AidinStark on Oct 11, 2007 20:13:55 GMT -5
I've seriously been considering participating this year.
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Post by Billie on Oct 15, 2007 21:26:03 GMT -5
Please do! I encourage you. I'm signed up now and so is D'Lure. Here's my page (nothing much on it yet): www.nanowrimo.org/user/157114(Or search for apathos.) Please sign up, if you are at all interested. You can at least start a book, and you'll have more than you did before, even if you only write two paragraphs! The nice thing about this "contest" is that you set your own goals, and you get encouragment, but there is no pressure to perform. No one is going to give you a bad grade if you decide it's not for you, or if something else comes up that demands your time. It's all win/win. Read up on it, if you are interested. I'll be happy to share ideas and help you any way I can. It's work-- won't lie--but it's the most fun kind of work there is. Billie
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Post by Shala-ren on Oct 19, 2007 5:11:45 GMT -5
I think I might. although work will get in the way. I'll SERIOUSLY think about this. I have so many ideas in my head. I should get them out.
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Post by Billie on Nov 30, 2007 23:00:04 GMT -5
Everyone, can I have your attention, please! Check this out, we're three for three this year in the National Novel Writing Contest. Yes, it's totally cool! This is Aidin: www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/211224This is D'Lure: www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/207666And this is Me: www.nanowrimo.org/user/157114I never really thought we'd pull that off, going into it--I thought it'd be a triumph if I got just one other person interested, but look what we pulled off! Way to reprazent! FX ftw! /applause Great job, guys! Day
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Post by AidinStark on Dec 1, 2007 15:20:36 GMT -5
And an...
/applause
To you two as well!
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Post by dlure on Dec 2, 2007 14:56:00 GMT -5
/applause
Yay!!
We did it! Congrats all around!!
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Post by hope on Dec 10, 2007 1:11:12 GMT -5
Congrats! /proud Hope
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Post by summer on Dec 22, 2007 9:56:09 GMT -5
Wow! Nicely done! All 3 of you got to complete your book. Totally awesome!
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Post by dlure on Sept 11, 2008 23:47:42 GMT -5
One year later yet again!Anyone else signing up to write this year? Check it out here: www.nanowrimo.org/
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Post by Billie on Sept 13, 2008 13:29:02 GMT -5
Well, believe it or not, I'm actually on the fence this year, and I'm usually a big missionary for spreading the word of the NaNoWriMo.
My guilty problem this year is that, at least at the moment, both Wrath of the Lich King and Animal Crossing for Wii are scheduled to debut early in November. Those are the two primary addictions in my life, and being realistic, there's just no way I am gonna be able to set a word-count goal and achieve it, IF those two games are available.
Now, many folks scoff at the idea of Blizzard making that November goal, and I am doubtful myself, so IF the new WoW expansion gets delayed enough (preferably to next year, when I am not as busy), I will dive into the NaNo once again. I can deal with just Animal Crossing, since at least in the early phase of that game, there's a limit to how much you can accomplish each day. (You can only shake so many trees and talk to two or three animals and fish each water and buy everything in the tiny store before your list of tasks is depleted.) (Of course, I'm gonna have more than one town, since I am gonna make a spare parts town on my mom's Wii and farm it dry, but still. . . .)
So, currently I am in a "Wait And See" holding pattern. If I hear any noises from Blizzard that encourage me, I shall start making a notebook of ideas for the NaNo.
Billie
P.S. Doing fine after both Hurricanes Ike and Tina (or whatever the first one was called; I've already forgotten). There was no major damage in my immediate area.
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