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I'm doing a NaNoWriMo this year after taking breaks from it for the past few years. I suppose it's "cheating" that right now I'm just describing the map of the world, next I'll write about the nobles and notables of the realm, and then I'll do a brief history. All before I actually start writing from a main character's perspective. ...But those 50k words got to be crapped out of somewhere!
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Nov 2, 2022 01:56
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Not bragging: I've got about 25k words typed up as of today which is half the typical NaNoWriMo goal, but all of it was backstory and world building. I'm actually a little stumped as to what characters to pick and use to actually write a compelling story with it.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:00
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So my project is basically a d&d campaign that never was. Without going too much into details- within the past fifty years a number of bad things happened: a horrific plague; major wars between five of eight factions that led to three joining up to gang up on the strongest one; internal power struggles in one that sent nobles fleeing their homelands; and a meteor seen by all of the world powers hit the frozen far north. The kingdoms are licking their wounds and have a truce for now and all are trying to rebuild and recover from all the awful things that happened. The main stories I had in mind are: * An effort to recover the meteorite for one of the kingdoms requires an expedition of many expendables but also a few important figures to keep tabs on the operation. The meteorite may or may not be magical or some other Mcguffin. Haven't decided yet. * Due to nearly being wiped out, a few brothers and sons of a noble house fled and went their separate ways. One lost his hand but is still a skilled swordsman and has gone to be a mercenary. The other, to the capitol in an effort to find a wife to bring back despite his loss in status. I can't decide if I want the merc's story to link up into the expedition to the North, and what exactly will happen to the one in the capitol or if somehow I drag both into the expedition. I had ideas for characters in other parts of the world but I feel like despite all the world building like describing the world map as a cartographer and travel writer then writing a who's who as a suck-up scholar and record keeper of an imperial university- I may want to focus on just one part of the world for now so my scope doesn't launch into the stratosphere. If I really go ham on this I'll maybe later write the stories that contain characters from those other kingdoms. At the very least I have a solid foundation for the world and setting at this point. Also as far as writing in short bursts goes I kind of just put music on and drink tea or sip a single shot of whiskey depending on time of day and let the ideas fall out. I write an outline of what I overall want to happen in steps, and then I jump around between what part is more interesting to write about as I go and actually spent a day just making edits to make sure that it all tracks for continuity. I haven't tried writing in sprints yet.
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Nov 10, 2022 06:00
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Yeah that's what I've landed on as well- best to keep focused on one area rather than create too many spinning plates to keep track of. Maybe later.
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Nov 11, 2022 05:07
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Admiralty Flag posted:I hit 25,609 words and am putting it aside for the day. I'm feeling this. Maybe 30k words are backstory and world building, and I have 8k at best for an actual story so far. I'm keeping track with the NaNoWriMo site and I like that if you check the stats tab it shows how many words you need to type to meet the deadline. If you write a lot at first it gets way below the 1,667 words a day, let alone even less than 1k words/day depending on how many you crush out and it's kind of nice only having half a page to write at a minimum instead of the usual 4 or so. I can be much more conscientious about what I write rather than feeling like I have to hit a word count and need to vomit out words.
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Nov 17, 2022 21:58
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I hit 40k a few days ago but now that I'm writing the story my writing is starting to lag. Still getting my characters to meet up.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:37
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