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A cry for help


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OK, here is the deal. When you get old (and grumpy) like me, time tends to pass quickly. I know I'm on a fast forward to November and Nanowrimo.

For those not knowing what it is, it is a now international race to write a novel in one month. For us who write, it is usually a blast, because for a month you can eat, drink and breathe the one thing you're doing, And that is hopefully not banging your head against a wall.

The rules state the idea has to be so new you have nothing written already, except notes. I have several started on projects I want to finish. But I'm going by the book.

I feel a little used up on ideas. Many are already tied into stuff that is finished or work in progress (or stagnant work).

If you have any type of plot, any type of scene or detail you think I should put in my novel, please tell. I know I'm asking for trouble now, but I'm quite good at screening through replies.

If I get any....

If it is stuff you're not going to use anyway, in a novel or real life, you can just as well share. :)

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 Don't you think there enough material on this forum? I think there would be pleanty of inspiration already here.

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 I agree with Lucifer, there's plenty of shit to write about on here...though if you wrote a book in one month wouldn't it be crap? I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here... 

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 I know the theroy. The idea is to put yourself on the spot, which is one of the best tools of improv. It stops you from thinking so much and just start doing. If your practiced, the result can be fun. I have some actor/director friends who have a contest to write and put on a play in 24hours. It's a fantastic exercise.

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 Ah ok, so what they’re trying to accomplish is to push themselves to write something (anything) within a month…the idea is to not make it overly complicated thus honing their skills in case they are ever under pressure?  

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Hell, we even kind of do that here.

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 you could write about a girl who has to write a book in a month but keeps getting distracted by the charm and witt of a bunch of sociopaths on an online pd forum. 

 

Seriously though you could add a bunch of things to that, an e-romance perhaps. Getting tricked into giving real identities which turn into real life stalking, all while the girl (you) are trying to write a book on a deadline. 

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 Not bad.

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I'll keep every idea in mind. ;)

Of course you cannot produce a final product in one month. But you can easily write a draft good enough for later editing.

I'm the type of person that doesn't get shit done if I have all the time in the world. 

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Create a story about two people, one of them a socio, the other an empy.  Show their lives and the day to day situations they go through.  Dig deep into their thoughts, narrate the choices they make and the outcome of those choices.  Have the socio relate to empys, and the empy relate to socios.  Have them question themselves, which in turn is questioning the reader.

I see it playing out in either one single day, or spanning their entire life.  Then summarizing the actions they took, and the results they had.  Perhaps they could even meet, and the reader would go back and forth between the minds of the two.

It would be interesting to see how life is generally the same for everyone.  Ups and downs.  They could both die at the end and the final pages would be their eulogy.

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