Well, Monique says she's doing the NaNoWriMo thing, and so does Jessica, and there's bits up at randomWalks, with credit to the lovely and talented Dru, who I've decided to link to in every entry from now on just to annoy her, and. . .
Odd. The boxes actually seem to be magically emptying themselves.
Should I stop being such an asshole and mention Oliver in a non-snide fashion?
God, the dialogue is bad. I learned a long time ago that comic book writing was best read in your mind, not out loud. The writers haven't learned that. I swear the writers went to "Snappy Dialogue Camp", and they should ask for their money back. I guess everyone wants to be the next Buffy (a show I've never watched) and figures that there's a secret mysterious formula to get internet obsessives hooked. God help me if this is it, because we're in for some bad television.
Never watched Buffy?
No, guess not.
Want to etc., etc.? Check out the What is NaNoWriMo? page:
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
And improve your snappy dialogue by reading through some old Buffy transcripts at the aptly named Psyche: Transcripts & FanFiction.
If you're looking to learn by bad example, they also have FanFiction.
um. i'm really sorry about the big blue bar remark. really. i was on beer four, or maybe five. it was a night.
and as to the NaNoWriMo, not gonna do it. nope. no way. i'm not an aspiring writer, i'm shift-key-less and lazy, and really busy too. which is why i'm not going to sign up.
Just to clarify...I'm participating in my own warped version of NaNoWriMo & it's more like NaNoWriMi (as in millenium - because that's about how long it's going to take me to finish the fucking thing.)
AND - it wasn't randomWalks that linked me, but blue period. I know it's confusing because randomWalks is in the URL and all, but...you know...it's a different blog. Must give Lorraine credit where it's due!
AND you can link me all you want, but you still will not achieve the ultra-stalker status on my blog which I have achieved on yours. (You realize I have two well-trained underlings who just keep clicking through all day long while I go about my business, right?)
Love ya for trying, though.
NaNoWriMo, eh? Hmm. Well, I keep saying I just need some incentive.
L. Monkey, in favor of big blue bars and kd drinking beer. I'm just an easy-going gal.
see, the blue bar. it's just, it was the default for MT from version 2.0 on up to 2.1, which lasted, like, forever and seven. then 2.21, by then everybody was blue and they didn't notice the default got more ... or well, less blue. more navy, really. and now it's all nice and totally blueless.
i'm not obsessed with templates, anymore than i'm obsessed with not signing up for NaNoWriMo. which i'm not gonna do. nope.
kd, I'd like to see the first chapter of your novel when you're done with it. It sounds fascinating.
Dru, I've mentioned that I'm dumb, right? Oh, repeatedly? I forget. I'm dumb. Apologies to you and Lorraine.
Monkey, who could be against either of those? Especially kd drinking beer.
You're gonna kick my sorry butt if I tell you I don't watch TV so I've never seen Buffy other than in passing. Aren't you?
Everything I've heard about Buffy makes it sound better than Birds of Prey. I liked the comic, but the show sounds lame.
You know, I tried NaNoWriMo last year. Wrote something like 80,000 words in a month, and was STILL only a third of the way into the novel I'd projected.
I'll do NaNoWriMo again when someone figures out the cure for Micheneritis.
Ginger, you don't have to watch Buffy to have an attitude.
Also, you keep acting your age, not your shoe size, making it very difficult to justify getting effnic on you. Say those of us who do watch tv are losers or something. Thanks, you're a sweetie.
Hanne, it could be worse. You could have Douglas Adams Disease.
Anybody want notes for several novels and a couple random chapters/scenes, but nothing actually novelish? Some of the scenes are pretty funny, if I do say so myself, but creating a plot to hang them on. . . well, as a novelist, I make a good skit writer for "Laugh-In" basically.