Comments on: Possibly a bad idea

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:51:33 +0000

This *is* the Sue who is doing it, and I am doing it, baby. You should do it too. I see you are. Hurrah.

By: mig

mig — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:19:11 +0000

well, i commenced on this nanowrimo adventure a couple hours ago. i have already tried dialogue restriction #1, characters speak only to people older than them, which turns out to be quite challenging since one of the main characters is older than most of the other characters.
Also looking into the abstract nouns. thank you for the cool suggestions.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:20:53 +0000

Those poems are amazing! You could do some interesting things with dialogue, like characters must speak only in statements, not questions. Or restrictions on who speaks to whom: characters only speak to people who are older than them, or perhaps have the book centred around a relationship between two people but never quote a direct conversation between them. Or for something more straightforwardly grammatical, no abstract nouns. That’d be tough.

By: sue

sue — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:15:37 +0000

This is not the Sue who is doing it–writing, that is.

I’ll leave that to YD.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:57:49 +0000

wow:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7697000/7697762.stm

By: mig

mig — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:03:31 +0000

dang, the assistant is all gray. really ought to learn how to work the macbook someday.

sure, paul, i can work in anything. i’ve long been interested in the arbitrary rule thing, ever since reading about them guys over at oulipo, and so on, and the whole hyperfiction thing, but also, in the paid writing i do, i have generally found that the tighter the truss, the easier the inspiration flows, so to speak.

ja, bran, well, we’ll see how this works i guess. good luck to you and sue, and anyone else trying this. i am drawing a complete blank this year. some general vague impressions is all. oh, and, but, last night before i fell asleep an entire scene came to me. it involved ghosts. it’s that time of year, i guess.

also, when all else fails, there is automatic writing, and refrigerator magnet poetry, and splatting coffee onto your journal and turning the blots into images (which i did this morning, creating new events, objects and characters, yay).

By: brandelion

brandelion — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:56:15 +0000

I can’t believe you’re doing it. You’re really doing it? And Sue is doing it, and I am doing it… this is not a 70’s disco song, it is the real thing. DO IT! Something like the (three?) horsemen of the (NaNo) apocalypse.

I dream big.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:05:35 +0000

I think a key, to be topical, is to have at least one chapter titled “Team of Mavericks” or perhaps “Palling around with terrorists”. Well it would be topical if you were in th U.S. But still they have a nice ring to them. I think they are the best meme’s that this U.S. Presidential campaign has come up with. Kind of a sad sign that all the best memes turn out to be humorous, I think the loony who used them meant to be serious, but come on, I think “Team of Mavericks” is pretty much an oxymoronic phrase. And “Palling around” and “Terrorists” are two phrases that a serious person wouldn’t put in the same sentence.

Anyway, bonus points if you make a chapter combining both phrases.