NaNoWriMo

what a description is follows from the genre...if the genre requires more distant or comprehensive descriptions, then that's what you have to figure out how to bend around so you can make the sentences do what you like. i don't think of sentences as representational particularly, so this may not help, but with action sequences (any action sequence) maybe try to think of the sentences doing what they're talking about rather than thinking about the relation as being from a distance.

physical descriptions are interesting. i do less and less explicit work with that these days. mostly i use metonyms (the part that performs the action of the whole)...or work with categories. i'm more detailed about physical interactions...but in the kind of stuff i make, it's mostly about triggering a sense of involvement than about painting a picture.

so far as physical space goes, i think in terms of geometry alot. mostly i think that follows from looking at a salt marsh out my back window every day and learning something of the complexity of that environment. there's no way i could catch it, not only for the complexity of what i can see at any given point, but also because everything changes. so i make compositions out of details. but again, what is required is a genre effect...

mostly, resolving these things for yourself is a matter of just working at them. for a while maybe they'll feel difficult and you won't be pleased with the outcomes, but that'll change. it's about finding ways for yourself to move around, which is about finding ways to shape possibilities so they feel like you're exploring what you frame in and don't worry so much about what you (inevitably) frame out.

that's what i've figured out so far.

 

35127, bowl of breakfast cereal, mug of hot chocolate, then off to bed.

I can't put where I'm at tonight with this better than you have.

werd.

And hi there Roachboy

Take care, both

 

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

MORTAL KARDIGAN!



(me, no words written tonight, but met up with the write-in group at a coffee bar near me and sketched out, with pen amdpaper, plot lines to get to the end)

 

20 little pieces so far. just reached the first main recurrence.

someone forwarded me this. it's too good not to post:

The Best of NaNoWriMo

 

er ....... 50244. And I've got to go to sleep now.

I can't quite believe it. I really can't.
In one way, I can. I know I have sat at this computer and written every word, many of them rubbish.
In another way, I can't. A day or two before November, I'd said to myself something like "Herumph ... novel ... fifty thousand ... OK", but I had my fingers crossed behind my back on account of what felt like the 95% probability of 'can't'. Ah, it's that same 95% that is still pushing for 'I haven't', even though I have fulfilled the letter and the spirit.
Basically, my belief that I haven't is stronger than my senses that I have. It's mad, and I feel mad for feeling this way. Everything in me is doing what it can to pursuade me tht I haven't, that I am mistaken, and that even if I have, then I haven't really

It's as if a parent has said "The boy's not a writer", and proceeds to ignore or discourage anything and everything that does not support that belief.

Anyway.
I think my next steps are:
Check that scenes are in the right order.
Divide chunks into chapters.
Go through it, rewriting some of the very worst bits.

But first, sleep.

All the best

 

i am cheerleading for you folks from my headquarters deep in a swamp of inertia.

i've stopped with the word count---now, when i put the number in that odd counter on the nano webspace, it informs me that i will reach the goal sometime in the middle of 2014. but the sequence is still motoring along.

 

Ah the final slope to success! NaNoWriMOJO factor 11, Mr Sulu!


I went to the weekly write-in at the coffee bar ... nobody else turned up. One double Macciato and large cappucino later, I realised I had had SIX shots of espresso. Way beyond my limit. I'd got distracted by the fact that I had been dunking those hard biscotti biscuits into the drinks. I walked home like a trireme at ramming speed and spent the next few hours tidying the house.

 

go with the momentum. you can look back later. besides, editing is fun: it's like treats awaiting at the end of a long haul.

 

I like what Roachboy says about momentum and treats awaiting the end of a long haul.
When I compose music, the horrible part is the long bit between the initial idea/inspiration and the going over of bits ... ie smaller editing. That long 'gap' that has to be filled from blankness to .. to something, that I find painful.
That's where I prefer photography, it's as if initial inspiraition governs the choice of subjects and lighting and esposure and positioning. Then I get home and its Already Done ... apart from the editing.


Anyway:

I completed the steps I mentioned in my previous post. Then compiled ... Scrivener is a Great program.
Then submitted via copy paste to the Nano official word-count verifier, which confirmed my 50, 000 words = win.

My adult, rational curt-nod sense of closure was interrupted by drool-mouthed air-fisting happy-dancing in my chair.

I'll even print this:

and put it on my wall.

Thanks again, Baraka, and I'm rooting for you as you cross the finishing line
Actually, I'm looking forward to reading it, if you choose to share it.

 

i have somewhere around 2000 words.
i think i reached the end of a section, so put the whole thing up in the blogs.
i could stop it here, but am thinking that i want to make another section after this. i have a couple ideas, but they're still vaporous. suggestions are welcome.

 

o--i decided to move into a present-future mode. so i put the camera in a night club. i kinda liked the way it came out, so i hung it up here:

"28" by stephen hastings-king — Fictionaut

the idea of faint young boys comes out of watching dance sets streamed from the boiler room, the people who just kinda stand there in the background. it helped to have the set streamed on a kind of surveillance apparatus. i linked the karenn set that has been clanging around in my head the past few days... strong medicine tho. play loud.

 

congratulations on making the count. well done.

keep going if you feel momentum still happening. might as well get the whole arc down if you do.