Hiya, writers’n’frenz —
For our NaNo-adjacent write-athon homestretch — please phrase your updates clearly so I don’t overlook or get’em rong in revising the chart!
GOALS & PROGRESSES
Aashirs nani — something that can go into one of my WIPs. Reread and edited one part, evaluated more of my WIP and identified areas where I need to add more text as of 11-21. Blocked out & filled in 1 subplot, identified 2 more needing work as of 11/18
dconrad — the classic 50k words Now at 15K/50K words. 11-21
mettle fatigue — add to the WO index. 12 added as of 11-28
reppa — hoping for 25000+ words as prep for DaKoWriMo
sagesource — finish WIP. Update: finished Future Imperfect and posted it on fanfiction.net -11-21. A slight revision to Future Imperfect to rein too-fast action down to a credible pace- 11/28.
strawbale — translate my Parker-for-10 position papers [the hard way, so I learn!] into Spanish; combined position statements into a single document and made a start on translating one. 11-21
ThurzdaysChild -- Four (4) self-appointments (one per week) to 'do something' to help move my book project along. 11-14: three appointments in two weeks.
For anyone who didn’t jump in who’da liked to, or who wants to ride the carousel again, I believe this January will be our ninth(?) annual
DailyKosWriMo
for all kindsa authorship, not fiction alone. — term papers, grant applications, memoirs, music composition, drafts of that big diary you’ve put off posting, heck — even thank you notes for gifts of the holiday season! Why not?
Tonight, meanwhile, let’s take a nice, easy turkeytrot of a challenge that won’t distract write-athoners too much — this is a kind that SenSho used to pose us a times, improvisation on pairs of apparently unrelated sentences. For example, In Write On! a timeline of writing, August 29, 2013, the challenge was
Write a scene that begins with the words
It would make a statue snicker
and includes the line
“Are you talking about these toads?”
Like the Rule of Twenty. improvisations of this particular kind are a way to burnish the skill of originality. by getting both lines somehow into CLOSE proximity.
So, the CHALLENGE for this evening is either SenSho’s in the blockquote above, or a new one in the blockquote below (pulled from books on my desk).
Either way, you’re free and encouraged to do whatever absurd contortions it takes in narrative and dialogue o finish in a wordcount of 300 or less!
Note that the bit of dialogue to include is not necessarily the final line of the challenge. Maybe it could be, but you can put it anywhere in your 300 words.
Write a scene that begins with the words:
Names were listed on the front board
and includes the spoken line
“I tried to hold out longer”
Remember, THIS IS NOT about plot, character, or setting. It’s solely about connecting two disparate lines on one small page so the connection makes sense, however distantly. One way to avoid slipping into plot or etc is to imagine that you’re replicating someone else’s conversation overheard on a crowded bus that started before you got on.
If you do need characters, though, save on wordcount by using our stock genre characters, sets and props, or from such famous books, films or television programs that absolutely no clarification is needed.
For some silly music to put you in the mood, here’s our seasonal ragtime:
h/t BMScott
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Our upcoming calendar:
Dec 5 - (NNWM-parallel wrap-up) strawbale
Dec 12 - aashirs nani
Dec 19 - dconrad
Dec 26 - not a lamb
Jan 2 - sagesource
Jan 9 - mettle fatigue
Jan 16 - aashirs nani
Jan 23 -
Jan 30 -
