NaNoWriMo: Got Balls? (Event has ended!)

[MalReynolds]

My vampire novel idea is pretty turny.

It's about this guy (whose parents died in a fire, he escaped with his brother when he was a kid but his brother disappeared during the hubbub.) who after having phone sex with his fiance hears her scream and the line dies. Her parents turn up dead and he finds out that his parents and her parents owned some joint property in the form of a mountain cabin in the Alps, so he leaves his town (some weird people are trying to kill him) and heads to the cabin.

While he's there, he's attacked by a monster and runs into his brother who he instantly recognizes due to a scar on his cheek, and the cabin is destroyed. He's taken back to a hospice in a town not too far away before being attacked again by another monster. He rallies a search party to try and destroy the monster and locate Sarah, his fiance, but when they go out, they're all destroyed, including a nurse that's taken an affinity to him.

Finally, he wakes up and the town is empty. He heads to the hospice and finds that the basement door is open and heads down, and follows a tunnel that leads him to an underground lake which houses the entrance to a castle. He finds the nurse again, and they make their way into the castle, dodging traps and things.

Finally, after the nurse is ACTUALLY killed instead of just imprisoned, he finds out the people pulling the strings are actually his parents, a set of immortals who kidnapped his wife to draw him to the Alps and had to do it that way because a group of anti-immortals were onto him. His parents were almost killed in the fire, set by his brother, who works for the anti-immortals, and the father has to either reign for another 600 years or die, but the only way is to have someone in his bloodline take over willingly, so the father kills Sarah and tells the main character that he can help her if he takes his power, which he does. Then the brother comes in as the father is dying and tries to kill his brother, but fails and dies.

The end!

(There's also more - The entire opening town is filled with 'immortals' and if the king and queen died without a successor, so would they all, the father was actually part of the plot to assasinate Lincoln, etc etc, more intrigue in the mountain, that's just the bare bones version.)

[Chromer]

Trippy Plot. O_o

[Chrissi]

I seem to be failing miserably.

Nov 2, 5:00 PM: 485 words.

Well, that test I just wrote didn't help. I've been studying more than I've been writing. Right now I'm writing some. So I'd better hit 3k tonight, or I'm screwed. I have sex class in an hour. And yes, I said "sex class" instead of just "class" because I like to flaunt it.

[xObserveRx]

sweet, Waterloo has a class where you get to have sex?!

[Squeek]

Turns out I've decided to write a grammar story in the shell of an RPG.

Main character's name is Semicolon. His best friend is Ellipsis.

[xObserveRx]

Well I've started. Almost the end of day 2 and I only have 1295 words. Not a bad start, considering the fact that I've only put in about an hour and a half of serious writing. (Okay maybe not even that much).

At least I'm ahead of Chrissi...

So what's everyone else's status?

(P.S: Could we get this thread stickied? At least for the month of November.)

[this_n00b_rocks]

I haven't even started yet. But I'm starting today.
Here's the plot:

A boy has special powers that he doesn't know about until his brother is murdered. After his brother is killed, he lets the power go, and almost levels a city block. Luckily, no one inhabits the block that he leveled. Anyways, he naturally wants revenge on the people that killed his brother. But the person that killed his brother is a drug overlord and the leader of the largest gang in the city. He masters his powers while he progressivly kills people in the gang, until it's completely mastered and he comes face to face with the leader. But the leader has special powers too.

Sound good?

[Samineru]

I am actually in a club at school that is doing this. What I am doing is instead of writing a 50K word novel I am writing a 50 page comic. I originally was thinking because a picture is worth a thousand words but it turns out officially, it isnt. Regardless I am doing that because it sounds like fun. Plotwise, it is kind of a superpower story set in feudal Japan.

[Squeek]

I have zero words written.

Exam week. Work on weekends. Not going to bother trying until next week.

Give me a solid hour on it and I'll be ahead of you all.

[Chrissi]

Wow. I'm only at about 1200 words. I'm really behind. Gotta get with the program. But I'm so lazy and I hate my plot now.

[Squeek]

I started on Tuesday and wrote for about an hour during one of my classes.

That was worth 1,000 words.

I guess I'll write when I'm bored at work with my laptop. Sounds ideal.

[Tokzic]

oh crap

this

okay starting now

[whorlichan]

It is a sad sad day when I think Squeek has the best idea out of all the ones listed here.

I wish any of my story ideas would flesh out into something longer than a few pages. Eventually I think I'll just retool some old fairy tales the way I wanted to read them, and see if I can get that into the works.

[Squeek]

Work tonight. I'll see how much I can get done.

The story has changed slightly since I began it, but the underlying theme is still the same. The enemies in the story are standard grammar mistakes: Comma Splice, Sentence Fragment, etc. I haven't decided who the big bad guy will be yet, but I'm kinda leaning toward chatspeak, since that's not actually a grammar mistake, but one of the biggest contenders in the fight to ruin the English language.

[whorlichan]

Originally Posted by Squeek

I haven't decided who the big bad guy will be yet, but I'm kinda leaning toward chatspeak, since that's not actually a grammar mistake, but one of the biggest contenders in the fight to ruin the English language.

Did you see that article about New Zealand allowing kids to use "textspeak" in their formal exams? I was horrified. I think that should be one of your big battles.

[Squeek]

Messing around with it now. Shouldn't be any customers at work tomorrow (unlike Thursday and Friday... got nothing done at all =/) so that gives me maybe four straight hours with it.

It's hard coming up with names. I am definitely not a creative writer. I'm a much better essayist.

Edit: Did another two thousand words today. Definitely easy once I got the basic structure in place.

I've picked out names for most of my characters and baddies. They're interesting. Once I finish, I'll want to find out if anyone gets the joke behind them.

I've also picked out what each character's specialty is based on my favorites in various RPGs. I'm trying VERY hard not to make the storyline close to any of the RPGs I'm borrowing ideas from. It's difficult.

Oh, and work was packed with people today. Who knew people liked to have things framed when it's the coldest day of the week, raining, and windy? Wow.

[whorlichan]

So...2 weeks in, I finally have a premise, with characters and everything. But there's no words yet. (There are 216 words in my little premise to myself, but even that doesn't have all the plot yet.)

[Squeek]

I'm about at the same stage.

They did say you couldn't do any work on it until November, right? I mean, that, to me, says you can't even come up with a plot until November.

And that makes 50,000 words hard. I'm going to have to start getting creative on words here.

Edit: have at least the next 10-15,000 words written mentally (AKA I have the basic point of each coming event written down and ready to be elaborated upon). Let's just hope I can keep the flow going and get this done in two weeks.

Another edit: Got another 700-ish words during class. Going well. Hope I can keep it up. Only 45,000 to go.

[thyraxicmole]

well okay i just ried posting but its stupid. so yeah mines 800 words so fasr. sucks. about a transexual and a black who is white on the inside. they are both excommunicated prety much. so they shoot a girl cause she wont let htem put their dicks in her mouth. LOL. yah. k

[GuidoHunter]

Good job reposting a deleted post, thyraxic.

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