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Post by Kaez on Nov 23, 2009 19:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by o ding on Nov 23, 2009 20:20:14 GMT -5
...It was the best one on the first page...
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 23, 2009 21:05:45 GMT -5
Gratz Reffy! Hopefully I'll be able to join you up there tomorrow!
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Post by James on Nov 23, 2009 21:08:37 GMT -5
Just finished Phantoms' outline.
It will have 29 Chapters and an Epilogue. So I'm looking at about 80-90,000 words.
So I'm not 28% of the way NaNo! I'm like 15% of the way there.
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Post by Kaez on Nov 24, 2009 2:06:51 GMT -5
Yay, I wrote stuff tonight!
/weeblydeebly
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 24, 2009 12:42:01 GMT -5
<Grumbles>
I'm going to be forced to clean up the office closet (a day long project) instead of getting this done...
RAAAAGGGGEEEE!
In other news, 47.7K!
My increments are becoming increasingly smaller.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 24, 2009 12:48:01 GMT -5
Any tips on editing? Kinda daunting with so many words to look at - lol YAYs @ 47.7k Evern  Just keep writing. It'll happen. When I got to 48.5 I couldn't stop. Knowing you are that close is crazy and really puts you in the writing mood. Also, read weebly. Thank you, Kaez  You'd probably have beaten me to the finish line if you weren't editing as you went. I hardly edited at all |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 24, 2009 12:58:59 GMT -5
Any tips on editing? Kinda daunting with so many words to look at - lol YAYs @ 47.7k Evern Just keep writing. It'll happen. When I got to 48.5 I couldn't stop. Knowing you are that close is crazy and really puts you in the writing mood. Also, read weebly. Thank you, Kaez You'd probably have beaten me to the finish line if you weren't editing as you went. I hardly edited at all How I plan to do it: Print it out, or at least a few pages at a time. Read through armed with a pen/pencil, make corrections. Edit on Word. Rinse, lather, repeat until finished. |
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Post by Meleta/Isoldaa on Nov 24, 2009 13:26:28 GMT -5
Didn't get to do NaNoWriMo this year, but I just wanted to give all my congratulations and *CHEERS* for the folks who did, and who made it through! You guys are awesome, and all the best for the next couple days to the end, that those last few words get knocked out, and the last of your edits all done.
*lots of applause and cheers* because you all deserve it. ;D
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 24, 2009 13:40:28 GMT -5
Aaaaaaw, thankies Meleta ;D
Maybe next year - eh? OR AWR MoP - which is going to be our own version of NaNo.
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Post by Kaez on Nov 24, 2009 14:24:32 GMT -5
Aaaaaaw, thankies Meleta ;D Maybe next year - eh? OR AWR MoP - which is going to be our own version of NaNo. ^^^ This! Any tips on editing? Kinda daunting with so many words to look at - lol The few bits of advice I'd offer: 1)) A chapter at a time. Because when you read a book, the flow is broken into chapters. There's a big bold numeral or title at the beginning, and a big space afterward. It is a standalone substory within your story. So make sure that your chapter isn't just filler -- it's a substory, and has to have a reason to be read. Every chapter has to advance the plot or a subplot in one way or another. 2)) The flow of the reading. This is what gives me 200 to 300 extra words added every time I edit a chapter. You'll find things like "she walked to the door that morning" and add in the word 'had' between 'she' and 'walked', just because it seems to work better that way in your mind. Sentence structure has got to be polished over, make sure it all reads well to you. 3)) Dialogue realism. I -always- read my dialogue aloud during the edit and I -always- roleplay how I say it. If someone says a line angrily, I say that line angrily. If it doesn't right, good. If it doesn't something needs to be fixed. Always looking for keeping the dialogue as realistic as possible and... always making sure the door is locked. >.> 4)) Scene fluidity. This kind of goes along with #2, but works more with the plot than the actual writing and it's that sometimes you'll read a scene and go, "This is dragging on a bit..." and sometimes you'll read one and say, "Woah, bit of a sudden jump there, let's add some filler to make that a bit smoother". So you toss in or toss out a few lines of transition. 5)) Staying true to the characters and the setting! When writing in the time we are, it's not easy to get your characters and settings tangled up. I can't even count how many times I've written "Denis" instead of "Wilam" and vice-versa. Only once did that make it through editing, so thank goodness for that. And the setting has the same problems. Just in this last chapter I was writing I said, "... wait a minute... they're on horseback and yet the ones on foot got ahead of them somehow? ... there's a problem." And that one will require some substantial editing, so I just scribbled it down onto my outline page so I can make sure it gets taken care of on the full-edit once the novel's done. ----- Soooooo.... hopefully those help you, some. Enjoy reading your novel and realizing it's better than you thought it was; just don't expect for it to be flawless. Editing is a huge step of every published novel you've ever read. They've all had rough drafts, and none of them were flawless. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 24, 2009 14:37:03 GMT -5
Ooooh. Those are good tips! Thankies, Kaez and Evern Going to give those a try. Already got relatives asking for copies, lulz. Told them they'd have to wait ... possibly going to try and get it published. Depends on how I feel about it after my edit/review. Currently thinking about "The Secrets of Nottingham Manor." Possibly a new world and new novel (tis a time-waster-RP FOGside with a friend 1on1 ... that could be an awesome novel) Figured I'm always going to be writing YA. It's the audience I enjoy writing for the most, especially with Fantasy. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 24, 2009 17:11:25 GMT -5
My thoughts, as I hit 48K, have turned towards my next story already... Thankfully not in the same painstakingly researched universe, but I'll have to edit Aeria some to enable some of the awesome stories that have taken residence in my skull.
Just as soon as I edit this thing.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 24, 2009 17:25:00 GMT -5
Hahaha. Same happened here. Brain is bubbling about "Nott's/next novel" more than "Bel-Gonows."
Congrats on 48k ;D Only 2k to go!!! Woop!
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 24, 2009 17:57:41 GMT -5
Gasp! I was kinda worried that, since I was in the epilogue, things would wind down before I hit 50K... And here comes a grown up Ellie, with a way for me to extend it to a much better ending!
<Hugs the two versions of Ellie>
I loves you!
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Just keep writing. It'll happen. When I got to 48.5 I couldn't stop. Knowing you are that close is crazy and really puts you in the writing mood.
You'd probably have beaten me to the finish line if you weren't editing as you went. I hardly edited at all 
