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Nimphy

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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #450 on: November 12, 2014, 01:54:02 PM »
Quote from: ThisCat on November 12, 2014, 01:48:44 PM
My novel runs on dialouge. Mostly one of the characters explaining things about reality to the other one. They are so weird people. How did they get inside my head and decide to refuse half my plot?

Hmph. At least your characters have never completely changed your plot to an unrecognizable thing *glares at one of her characters*
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #451 on: November 12, 2014, 02:00:50 PM »
Quote from: Nimphy on November 12, 2014, 01:54:02 PM
Hmph. At least your characters have never completely changed your plot to an unrecognizable thing *glares at one of her characters*

That's because they're not fully developed yet. They're so pointless at times.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #452 on: November 12, 2014, 02:09:10 PM »
I try hard on dialogues because all time descriptions are a bit dull. But I fear I have to cencor some of the words used. Some are more modest due to translation (I am not always able to find an appropriate translation on "your moma" insults.) I limit them to short paragraphs, still they are kind of frustrating. I'm realising how used I got to this rough talking all the time.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #453 on: November 12, 2014, 02:14:27 PM »
Okay, ThisCat, I catched your word count and excerpt! Yayy! Looks nice, what did you work on?
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #454 on: November 12, 2014, 02:46:59 PM »
Quote from: Nimphy on November 12, 2014, 02:14:27 PM
Okay, ThisCat, I catched your word count and excerpt! Yayy! Looks nice, what did you work on?

Uuh, which one?
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #455 on: November 12, 2014, 02:55:18 PM »
Good dialogue is a great thing, and hard to write, too. I'm trying hard to write some more dialogues, because most of my story so far is descriptions, thoughts and dreams... and I guess that won't be too much fun to read. And I couldn't really work on catching up with my word count yet - I hope for tomorrow...
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #456 on: November 12, 2014, 03:06:18 PM »
Yay, Kitty, they even called you  ;D Fun write-in, I guess.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #457 on: November 12, 2014, 03:06:55 PM »
Eeeeeh! They read my thing!

Anyway, I wrote absolutely nothing but dialogue for this. No descriptions, no internal explanation, just spoken words. It's so easy for me.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #458 on: November 12, 2014, 03:09:25 PM »
Quote from: Fen Shen on November 12, 2014, 02:55:18 PM
Good dialogue is a great thing, and hard to write, too. I'm trying hard to write some more dialogues, because most of my story so far is descriptions, thoughts and dreams... and I guess that won't be too much fun to read. And I couldn't really work on catching up with my word count yet - I hope for tomorrow...

That...basically sums up my story, too. Plus lots of wandering.

Argh, I missed the write-in again. Maybe next next time.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #459 on: November 12, 2014, 03:10:35 PM »
Quote from: ThisCat on November 12, 2014, 03:06:55 PM
Eeeeeh! They read my thing!

Anyway, I wrote absolutely nothing but dialogue for this. No descriptions, no internal explanation, just spoken words. It's so easy for me.

Yes! I heard "ThisCat", my first reaction was "Finally!", the other was giggling like mad ;D

Just spoken words is incredibly easy. Don't you love it? I sure do. But it doesn't boost word count by much... so I added in a few descriptions ("he growled", "she sat up", etc, just three words can boost your count by a lot).
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #460 on: November 12, 2014, 03:12:58 PM »
Quote from: Nimphy on November 12, 2014, 03:10:35 PM
Yes! I heard "ThisCat", my first reaction was "Finally!", the other was giggling like mad ;D

Just spoken words is incredibly easy. Don't you love it? I sure do. But it doesn't boost word count by much... so I added in a few descriptions ("he growled", "she sat up", etc, just three words can boost your count by a lot).

I know. I could easily write half a chapter with 90% of the text within ""s, but that gets confusing to read after a while, so I try to tell the reader what the characters are doing as well.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #461 on: November 12, 2014, 03:16:18 PM »
Hmmm, I'm curious, what was your character's reaction to "How long have you been standing there?"?

(Mine just said something along the lines of "Long enough for the sun to get from that tree to that other tree, how long is that?")

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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #462 on: November 12, 2014, 03:18:51 PM »
Quote from: Nimphy on November 12, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Hmmm, I'm curious, what was your character's reaction to "How long have you been standing there?"?

(Mine just said something along the lines of "Long enough for the sun to get from that tree to that other tree, how long is that?")

"Oh, just a few minutes." Not very exciting I guess.

Could we possibly do another 15 min. wordsprint? It helps me out a bit, and I'm currently stuck in not having any words.
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #463 on: November 12, 2014, 03:21:01 PM »
Quote from: ThisCat on November 12, 2014, 03:18:51 PM
"Oh, just a few minutes." Not very exciting I guess.

Could we possibly do another 15 min. wordsprint? It helps me out a bit, and I'm currently stuck in not having any words.

YES. Wordsprint. Definitely. At :25?
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Re: NaNoWriMo
« Reply #464 on: November 12, 2014, 03:22:03 PM »
25 it is. Doubt I'll get far on the first one, but I'm trying to force down the writer's block.
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