Halp! My setting went missing!!

[muselolita.livejournal.com]

Or at least I think it's about to go missing...

So here's my problem. My MC is being all broody and introspective (for two endless chapters) because his father has died and with all the getting into his head and dissecting it, I seem to have not made a single mention of my setting - which is Victorian London.

My question is, how do I bring out the personality of my very important setting with all that brooding in that way. Or do I just let my MC do his thinking and wait for the setting to reveal itself in time?

Halp! My setting went missing!!

[muselolita.livejournal.com]

Or at least I think it's about to go missing...

So here's my problem. My MC is being all broody and introspective (for two endless chapters) because his father has died and with all the getting into his head and dissecting it, I seem to have not made a single mention of my setting - which is Victorian London.

My question is, how do I bring out the personality of my very important setting with all that brooding in that way. Or do I just let my MC do his thinking and wait for the setting to reveal itself in time?

NaNoDaySprints are Open!

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

When: Midday/Noon/12:00pm EST
Host: NotUsingtheZWord
Where: NaNoDaySprints

Notes: When entering the chat, please don't be the first person to speak. Typical format is 10 minutes off/15 minutes on, but there will be some 10-minute sprints. There is a half-hour break every 30 minutes.

NaNoDaySprints are Open!

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

When: Midday/Noon/12:00pm EST
Host: NotUsingtheZWord
Where: NaNoDaySprints

Notes: When entering the chat, please don't be the first person to speak. Typical format is 10 minutes off/15 minutes on, but there will be some 10-minute sprints. There is a half-hour break every 30 minutes.

(no subject)

[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Word Count

Post your Daily Word Count here!
Remember, no excerpts please. That is in a separate post!

Keep up the good work everyone! Remember, every word is a step towards your goal.

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[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Word Count

Post your Daily Word Count here!
Remember, no excerpts please. That is in a separate post!

Keep up the good work everyone! Remember, every word is a step towards your goal.

(no subject)

[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Excerpt Post

Post an excerpt of your novel here!
Please try to keep it under 1500 words. Thanks!

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[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Excerpt Post

Post an excerpt of your novel here!
Please try to keep it under 1500 words. Thanks!

(no subject)

[sci8fi.livejournal.com]

My friend is doing NaNo this year and needs a little help with her plot but she doesn't have a LJ account and I don't know the answer, so I thought I'd pose this question for her:

Is there/could there be a reason for the Earth's atmosphere to become unbreathable?

If so, could this happen in only a few parts of the world?

Thanks for any help you can give. Hope those word counts are rising!!

(no subject)

[sci8fi.livejournal.com]

My friend is doing NaNo this year and needs a little help with her plot but she doesn't have a LJ account and I don't know the answer, so I thought I'd pose this question for her:

Is there/could there be a reason for the Earth's atmosphere to become unbreathable?

If so, could this happen in only a few parts of the world?

Thanks for any help you can give. Hope those word counts are rising!!

I don't know what to do!

[kuroi-hemlock.livejournal.com]

I wanted to write for Nano this year. I didn't care what my word count per day was, all I wanted to do was to write. Now I find myself six days into November and I just have a small paragraph. Nothing is coming to me. All I have is my characters and the time setting (early 1920's). The reason for this is because I had to help my sister move her things to another city. She was suppose to leave on the 1st, which still gave me plenty of time to start, but complications made her leave on the 3rd. In the end I ended up starting last night, because I was way to busy on the fourth. Now I am just staring at what little I have wrote and have no idea what to do, I have literally no plot and that seems to be my problem. I start out great then I run down, because I have no idea where to go. My characters apparently want to be silent screen actors and really I am kind of winging it, because I'm not that knowledgeable about the 20's (expect for the silent movies I watch and the gangsters I've read about). Maybe thats my problem, but that's the way the characters want to go; I even see them in my mind dressed in 20's fashion. As for plot I'm completely clueless and I really want to have some kind of idea of what I am doing. I don't know if I should just give up now and try another time when I have an idea of what I'm doing. Right now I'm just walking blindly in my story and bumping into too many things. I don't know if anyone can help, but I at least wanted to get my frustrations out.

 

Help?

[solitaryjane.livejournal.com]

I am at the point of the novel where I have to have a clear grasp on my characters in order for me to continue, and the problem is that I don't have it at all! I have a vague outline of their personalities and quirks and motives, but nothing solid. So I'm asking for help here. Could you guys help me see my characters better by giving me some questions that would illuminate their personalities? Like, "what would they do if they're stuck in traffic for the next five hours?", or "what do they do when they're bored?" or "what kind of food do they like?" That way this'll force me to consider their actions specifically, I think. Thanks!

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[joeytheripper1.livejournal.com]

can a chapter be 500 words or does it have to be bigger?
just one chapter though.

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[joeytheripper1.livejournal.com]

can a chapter be 500 words or does it have to be bigger?
just one chapter though.

Because I don't know where else to look...

[ashes-to-roses.livejournal.com]

I'm writing about bounty hunters but have no knowledge of them AT ALL besides Cowboy Bebop and random tidbits of Dog the bounty hunter's reality tv show thing.

Does anyone know of any shows/movies/clips on youtube related to bounty hunting? Hook me up!

How's my novel coming? >< I hate Thursdays and Fridays; I'm always so tired from the week by this point. Solution: Reading a good novel for an hour and finishing with a good cuppa English tea.

Because I don't know where else to look...

[ashes-to-roses.livejournal.com]

I'm writing about bounty hunters but have no knowledge of them AT ALL besides Cowboy Bebop and random tidbits of Dog the bounty hunter's reality tv show thing.

Does anyone know of any shows/movies/clips on youtube related to bounty hunting? Hook me up!

How's my novel coming? >< I hate Thursdays and Fridays; I'm always so tired from the week by this point. Solution: Reading a good novel for an hour and finishing with a good cuppa English tea.

Damnit!

[delorispea.livejournal.com]

 I started writing nearly straight away - got quite a few words done then ANOTHER plot came into my head - so unbelievably hard that I can't focus on the one I started with.

Now I don't know whether to go back and try to get on with the original, work on the new one or work on both?

Anyone else been in this situation before? D:

Damnit!

[delorispea.livejournal.com]

 I started writing nearly straight away - got quite a few words done then ANOTHER plot came into my head - so unbelievably hard that I can't focus on the one I started with.

Now I don't know whether to go back and try to get on with the original, work on the new one or work on both?

Anyone else been in this situation before? D:

(no subject)

[dyserenity.livejournal.com]

( A tip to those of you who feel like giving up because you think your novel sucks. )

Also, a question:
I'm getting a bit stuck on my plot. My character got stuck in this other world she sees the first time she opens her door every morning. She's locked out of the house and can't get back to her world. I have no clue why she's in the other world. Is she fighting evil? I have a little bit of a romance undertone going on in here, but I don't want that to be the primary reason she's in another world. Anyone have any ideas why she could be there? It's kind of a mirror world with different technology. I can't think of any reason she'd be there!

Productivity enhancement

[dragonbloodink.livejournal.com]

I'm writing in a very basic word processor that doesn't have word counts or pages. I find that not knowing, or being able to check how much I've written without copypasteing it keeps me focused more on *what* I'm writing, not how much.

Thought I'd toss it out there in case it might help anyone else.

Productivity enhancement

[dragonbloodink.livejournal.com]

I'm writing in a very basic word processor that doesn't have word counts or pages. I find that not knowing, or being able to check how much I've written without copypasteing it keeps me focused more on *what* I'm writing, not how much.

Thought I'd toss it out there in case it might help anyone else.

(no subject)

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

NanoEveningSprints
are now open.

They'll conclude at 11 pm est

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[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

NanoEveningSprints
are now open.

They'll conclude at 11 pm est

*headdesk*

[synnerxx.livejournal.com]

OKay, I was right on track with my novel until Wednesday. I had my word count right where it needed to be. Then I didn't get a chance to write on Wednesday or Thursday.

So now I'm really behind and I've got this idea to rewrite the entire thing using the same characters and plot, just in a different style.

So what do I do? Stick with my old version or work on the new version or write both and decide in December and decide which I like better?

Any ideas?

*headdesk*

[synnerxx.livejournal.com]

OKay, I was right on track with my novel until Wednesday. I had my word count right where it needed to be. Then I didn't get a chance to write on Wednesday or Thursday.

So now I'm really behind and I've got this idea to rewrite the entire thing using the same characters and plot, just in a different style.

So what do I do? Stick with my old version or work on the new version or write both and decide in December and decide which I like better?

Any ideas?

Cravings due to your novel?

[onceiwasaturtle.livejournal.com]

My characters have been stuck in breakfast time their time for three days my time now! They've already had two breakfasts in their one morning, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY CHEESE DANISH IN MY FRIDGE!!! This has produced the most severe cravings on my behalf ... especially considering that I've quarantined myself due to having the swine flu right now, and so the earliest I'll be able to leave home to go to the particular store that sells good Danish is sometime Sunday (two days from now), provided that I get better (which I need to so that I can go to work on Monday)....

But that got me to wondering, have any of you had a situation in your novel that made you crave something? Or has a craving of yours worked its way into the pages of your novel? (Mine just did....)

Cravings due to your novel?

[onceiwasaturtle.livejournal.com]

My characters have been stuck in breakfast time their time for three days my time now! They've already had two breakfasts in their one morning, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY CHEESE DANISH IN MY FRIDGE!!! This has produced the most severe cravings on my behalf ... especially considering that I've quarantined myself due to having the swine flu right now, and so the earliest I'll be able to leave home to go to the particular store that sells good Danish is sometime Sunday (two days from now), provided that I get better (which I need to so that I can go to work on Monday)....

But that got me to wondering, have any of you had a situation in your novel that made you crave something? Or has a craving of yours worked its way into the pages of your novel? (Mine just did....)

Going against the plan

[takatohedgehog.livejournal.com]

So I went against my plan to edit in December and deleted the whole beginning of chapter one that was in first person. Since I'd changed from first to third earlier in the novel and was thinking about what to write, I decided to rewrite the whole 1st person thing.

Know what happened?

I added an extra 1k+ while I was at it :D The original 1st person was three pages long but the third person made it five pages!

I went against the plan of editing in December and didn't fall back! Whoop-whoop! ...and still deciding what to do next |D

Anyone else done something like this so far?

Going against the plan

[takatohedgehog.livejournal.com]

So I went against my plan to edit in December and deleted the whole beginning of chapter one that was in first person. Since I'd changed from first to third earlier in the novel and was thinking about what to write, I decided to rewrite the whole 1st person thing.

Know what happened?

I added an extra 1k+ while I was at it :D The original 1st person was three pages long but the third person made it five pages!

I went against the plan of editing in December and didn't fall back! Whoop-whoop! ...and still deciding what to do next |D

Anyone else done something like this so far?

(no subject)

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

NaNoIntoTheNight is now open.

Sprints will conclude at 2 AM EST. Please come and join us for fun, writing, and insanity!

Oh. And cake. There has been a promise of cake.

(no subject)

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

NaNoIntoTheNight is now open.

Sprints will conclude at 2 AM EST. Please come and join us for fun, writing, and insanity!

Oh. And cake. There has been a promise of cake.

Schools and autism

[alishenai.livejournal.com]

Hi I'm writing a story about a teenage boy named Sam who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome (my younger brother has it). In the story I plan to write about Sam starting at a new school which got me thinking: how do school's differ in teaching students like Sam? are some schools better than others? I assume so, but although I have moved to different schools myself the schools have basically been the same when it comes to teaching students with learning difficulties. Therefore this is where I need your help: what have been your experiances with schools and the way they teach students with learning difficulties? Please note that this question does not apply to special schools.

Schools and autism

[alishenai.livejournal.com]

Hi I'm writing a story about a teenage boy named Sam who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome (my younger brother has it). In the story I plan to write about Sam starting at a new school which got me thinking: how do school's differ in teaching students like Sam? are some schools better than others? I assume so, but although I have moved to different schools myself the schools have basically been the same when it comes to teaching students with learning difficulties. Therefore this is where I need your help: what have been your experiances with schools and the way they teach students with learning difficulties? Please note that this question does not apply to special schools.