Write Me A Story

Here's the deal EoFF. November is National Novel Writing Month and I'm participating. I think you should participate too because it'll be fun. Basically, you write as much as you can within that month (the target is 50k words) and then you can say you've written a novel! There's also the chance that what you write is awesome and then you might be able to get it published or something!

If enough of you budding novelists are interested, then we can create ourselves an EoFF NaNoWriMo (cool name huh?) LJ community where we can complain and share ideas and such!

IT'LL BE SO MUCH FUN GUYS :hyper:

So you should all join in on the fun. Don't give me the "I don't have time" excuse, because I have to finish school, go on two holidays and compete at the Australian Athletics championship in that month. If I can do it, so can you!

Get stuck in!

I think this could be an awesome thing! Plus since we all at least vaguely know each other it'll be a little bit more comfortable for us to bounce ideas off each other :P

I'm up for it! :D

Well i'm going to strongly consider it.

I can't even bring myself to do my homework and you're asking me to write a novella?!

I guess it is a good way to procrastinate

I could write more of my EoFF fanfiction!

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I could write more of my EoFF fanfiction!

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Oh and whats it about? :o

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Originally Posted by rubah

I can't even bring myself to do my homework and you're asking me to write a novella?!

I guess it is a good way to procrastinate

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I'm not asking you, I'm demanding pleading with you. You know you want to do it!

This is the most productive form of procrastination I have found. You should attempt to write about your homework so that you're effectively killing two birds with one stone.

Psy picked up the drill after wiping his brow and threw a worried look at rubah. She returned it.

"Are you little bitches slacking on the job?" the coarse, pubescent and often whiny voice of Roogle echoed through the cavern, and Psy looked behind a dollar-store plastic table where Roogle sat, continuously scribbling on his blueprints.

"No, but-" rubah started, and didn't finish before Roogle flipped them the bird.

"Get your scrawny dicks back into the digging, or I swear I'll take you both back to the slammer myself. You two owe me your freedom and ipso facto I own your lazy bodies until this job is over," Roogle held a glare from above his aviators in a way that reminded Psy of Uzbekistan. It was a memory he did not enjoy reliving, and he went back to drilling so that any possibility of a repeat of Uzbekistan would not occur.

Just a few more hours, Psy thought to himself, and then he could get as far away from Roogle as his legs and his share of the cash (however tiny it will probably be) will take him. Digging into the Square-Enix money vault was a risky idea, and when Roogle first explained it to him during the jail break it made him sick. There was a very good possibility that he was being thrown into a situation worse than death row. His previous fate may have been kinder than what was about to take place. But you don't say no to Roogle after he shot two cops and crashed your transport van. No, saying no then would make him angry. And Psy was genuinely scared of Roogle ever since Uzbekistan.

He had no idea why rubah was here but she was digging. Her job for the past week was the accumulation of explosives, which worked out fine for the plan but a little less fine for her eyes, which were circled with blackness. Psy wasn't interested in how she got the C4, and he wasn't interested where Roogle busted her out of (and what she paying her debt to society for). He was only interested in keeping the peace until this was over. He hadn't been on good terms with her since before Tavrobel assassinated the premier of FFO. He wasn't comfortable with her methodology during that time. He wasn't comfortable with his own methodology during that time. As much as you try to grow beyond the past, sometimes the past will not let you get away. It will envelop you like a tentacle monster and devour your purity every night, with every bottle of scotch downed.

Roogle spat and swore as his cell phone started ringing. Psy knew the ringtone, he had learned it well in the past week. Rantzien was giving a status update from the surface.

"Don't you give me that bull, you little nutpuncher," Roogle growled into his cellphone, "You're up there to MAKE SURE that no one enters the hole. If someone did, then the next hole that's gonna be entered is gonna be yours, you hear me you major disappointment?"

Psy kept drilling. But he began to think. The only other person that knew about the dig today was...

"Oh no, it Rirse," Roogle scoffed as the hooded figure walked into view from the entrance, boots shuffling rhythmically.

I'll assume that's an application to join then!

bahahah I love it!

But what happened in Uzbekistan?

Might give me an excuse to go back to something I've been working on or at least start writing down on paper my other ideas. I've been putting off my writing for years. :(

... I walked into a door :(

Roogle is always that way :(

I am in if I can get my arse in gear!

I'm counting on you, Bobby!

I'm already writing a story anyway.

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Originally Posted by Jiro

So you should all join in on the fun. Don't give me the "I don't have time" excuse, because I have to finish school, go on two holidays and compete at the Australian Athletics championship in that month. If I can do it, so can you!

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I'm unemployed so it's not like I have anything better to do right now. Just need some inspiration to happen. I could work on some things I've had in progress for a while, but they're not so much novels as scripts/game design documents. I'll try to think of something.

You can't work on anything that's in progress. Has to be fresh and new! They can be previous ideas but nothing you've already started working on. That would defeat the 50,000 word novel in 30 days cause you already started on it :p

Hmm, for some reason I left out the part where I was going to say I wouldn't work on them because they're scripts/game design documents. I wouldn't want to have to rework them even if it was allowed simply because I have no intention of them being anything other than games.

Oh early morning posting; the only thing I have less luck with is explosives in Uncharted 2 it seems.

Thank you, krissy, for breathing much win into a dying situation! I am unsure just how many EoFFers are secret novelists or famous authors, so I wonder just how many novellas will be written in this period! I would have a happily participated in this before I read this:

http://akusui.net/_lynxoma/addressyourfailings.gif

I'm not unemployed, I'm an unpublished novelist!

Don't judge my late night creation of the description! I'm totally sorry! I'll fix that horrendous problem right away Mr. Lynx! I absolutely apologize for it!

Yeah so I have my idea all set and have begun outlining it in preparation to start writing on the 1st. Consider me 100% in.

Join the community today!

Hopefully our little community will be a breeding ground for ideas, a festering swamp of inspiration! You can tell I'm absolutely going to fail at describing things in my novel!

It's there for you to use and abuse so feel free to sign up and start sharing your thoughts. Post about being scared - I know I'm freaking out at the target word count.

Yeah so get in there and have fun etc etc. I dunno they sacked me from the pep talk role at school.

If I have to start something new then forget it :redface:

Rantzien's Adventures

Rantzien awoke one morning and he was in his bed. "Today is the day to do my adventures" yelped Rantzien. He is Swedish and a man. He got out of bed and make a breakfast and the breakfast was for him and had many toasts in it.

"Time for adventure!" bellowed Rantzien and out of the door he went to the adventuring. He got onto his skateboard and skated down the many lanes.

As he was in a forest a voice said "You are in my forest! You will stop!" "Oh no this is not very good" exclaimed Rantzien. He did not want to stop at all, he wanted to have an adventure. "My name is Lekana I am a troll" said Lekana, who was a troll. "Why are you doing this to me, have you no sense of friends?" asked Rantzien. "No" said Lekana. "This is not good at all" replied Rantzien and he pulled out his rocket launcher and fired six rockets at Lekana and drove away in his car.

Further down the roads he saw a sign. Upon the sign it said "Heros? You are wanted by me!" and it was outside of a tavern and in the tavern were many people and some were also women. "This sounds like the kind of adventure I could have today!" thought Rantzien with glee, and he hurried into the tavern.

"Hello I am heard there was adventure required" said a man. His name is Quin. "Perhaps, reveal to me what you have to offer" remarked Rantzien. "I said there was a beautiful princess. The princess is in a cave and the cave is many monster's house, also there is dragons, you will have to tread so carefully" said Quin to Rantzien. "Oh" squealed Rantzien and he decided this was the adventure for him.

"No, Rantzien! This is not the adventure that is for you!" said Jiro who was there. He dropped on his robe, expunging his body to all within the place. "This will be your end of time!" said Jiro. "Now, we will fight and you will be the one to lose!" "I'm not so sure if this is going to be a fun experience" sighed Rantzien, preparing for the challenge ahead.

TO BE CONTINUED...?

I think I should make my own thread in the writers' forum.

I would do this but I'm incapable of sharing anything I write with anyone.

I'm not a troll xD

This sounds like the kind of adventure I could like to have!

I would say to count me in, but November is a very busy month for me ;~; which sucks because I LOVE to write. But I like this idea, Jiro is now on my Good List.

I do not mean to dissipate the rather upbeat aura that this thread is emanating, but I do fear that I cannot participate in this event due to the fact that I cannot write in proper sentence structures, or even adhere to the proper standards of grammatical protocol for that matter!

However, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience this may bring you, suffice it to say that I am not as adept at expressing my thoughts and ideas in mere words as you had initially believed, for my command of the English language is rather intermediate.


A thousand apologizes, each more sincere than the last,

Space Pope, The

Sounds like if 'krissy' does this we're all doomed. :D That made for an... interesting read.
But im up for a challenge.:)

My user on the nanowrimo site is IDontLikeBimbos.

Who else has a user and wants to be frieeends? :aimkiss:

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I would do this but I'm incapable of sharing anything I write with anyone.

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Me too. I can't risk of not getting my work published because I freely posted it online. I have a book I need to work on, but there's a lot of school work that needs to get done.

You don't publish it online. The only thing you do is submit it to a word count. Once the script counts it, it automatically deletes it.For evidence here's a list of those who have been published from thier nano writing.

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And a growing number of these novels have found publishers, including one New York Times #1 Bestseller!

Jon F. Merz--- The Destructor (Pinnacle Books, 2003). Contact: Pinnacle Books

Lani Diane Rich--- Time Off for Good Behavior (Warner Books, 2004), Maybe Baby (Warner Books, 2005), and Wish You Were Here (Warner Books, 2008). Contact: | Lani Diane Rich

Sara Gruen--- Flying Changes (HarperCollins, 2005) and Water for Elephants (Algonquin, 2007). Contact: Sara Gruen New York Times #1 Bestseller

Rebecca Agiewich--- BreakupBabe (Ballantine Books, 2006). Contact: Rebecca Agiewich

Francesca Segre--- Daughter of the Bride (Berkeley Books, 2006). Contact: Home - FRANCESCA SEGRÈ.

David Niall Wilson--- Vintage Soul (Five Star/Gale, 2007) and The Mote in Andrea's Eye (Five Star/Gale, 2006). Contact: Five Star/Gale

Gayle Brandeis--- Self Storage (Ballantine Books, 2007). Contact: Gayle Brandeis Home Page

Kimberly Llewellyn--- Cashmere Boulevard (Berkley Books, 2007). Contact: www.kimberlyllewellyn.com

Geonn Cannon--- On the Air (P.D. Publishing, 2007). Contact: P.D Publishing.

Lisa Daily--- The Dreamgirl Academy (Plume/Penguin Putnam, 2008). Contact: Stop Getting Dumped and Lisa Daily's Other Books!

Jacob and Diane Anderson-Minshall--- Blind Curves (Bold Strokes Books, 2007) Contact: Bold Strokes Books

James R. Strickland--- Looking Glass (Flying Pen Press, 2007) Contact: James R. Strickland - Books and News

Kathy Cano-Murillo--- Love Shine (Grand Central Publishing, 2007) Contact: CraftyChica™ - Kathy Cano-Murillo

Ann Gonzalez--- Running for My Life (WestSide Books, 2008) Contact: Ann Gonzalez, Running for My Life, PTSD, Young Adult

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen--- The Compound (Feiwel and Friends, 2008) Contact: Children's author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen is available for school, author visits -- Books, Reviews, Honors, Awards

Jessica Burkhart--- High Jumps at Collins Academy (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Jenna Bayley-Burke--- Just One Spark (Mills & Boon, 2006). Contact: Main Page @ jennabayleyburke.com

Teryl Cartwright--- A Sensible Match (Vintage Romance, 2007). Contact: Author Teryl Cartwright

Dave Casler--- The Story of the Great American Flying Broomstick, Book 1: Genesis (Mt. Sneffels Press, 2007). Contact: The Great American Flying Broomstick

Liz Hegarty--- Salt River (Scholastic New Zealand, April 2009). Contact: Home - Scholastic New Zealand

C.J. Lines--- Filth Kiss (Hadesgate Publishing , 2007). Contact: C.J. Lines

Moondancer Drake--- Worlds Collide (PD Publishing). Contact: Moondancer's Hearth.

Simon Haynes--- Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch (Fremantle Press, June 2008).

Farhan Devji--- The Hockey Farmer (Cacoethes Publishing, June 2008). Contact: Cacoethes Publishing

Kalayna-Nicole Price--- Once Bitten (Bell Bridge Books). Contact: Official Site of Kalayna Price: Home Page

Katherine Bell--- Amaranth: The Preterhumans, Book 1 (Cacoethes Publishing). Contact: Katherine Bell ::||:: Webhome of the author!

Angela Korra'ti--- Faerie Blood (Drollerie Press). Contact: Drollerie Press

Terie Gerrison--- SpringFire and SummerDanse (Llewellyn Worldwide). Contact: Terie Garrison

Kathleen Kaufman--- The Tree Museum (Way Things Are Publications, March 2009). Contact: The Way Things Are Publications — Home

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes--- Persistence of Memory (Delacorte Books for Young Readers,2008). Contact: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/atwaterrhodes

Mette Finderup--- Blink: En kærlighedsroman (Gyldendal, 2009). Contact: Mette Finderup - Blink

Erin Grace-- The Indefatigable Wright Brothers (Jumping Duck Media, 2008). Contact: Jumping Duck Media.

Catherine Wade---Let's Dish and Another Time Around (Samhain Publishing, 2009).

Sarah Dooley---Livvie Owen Lived Here (Feiwel and Friends, 2010).

Rachael Herron---How to Knit a Love Song (Avon, 2010).

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How are everyones stories coming along? I'm at over 2000 words. I couldnt think of an appropriate story till pretty much last night. So i really had to punch it up.

The next couple of nights i'll write extra to make up for the days i didnt write anything.

ET TU?

I’ll enter this, and then I’ll open MS Word. I’ll inflict a good amount of words onto that blank sheet before calling it a night. A few days later, I’ll open it again, and I might do some spell-checking and word-swapping and what-have-you... hell, I might even write a few more paragraphs before I close it. About 5 or 6 days after that, I will open it again, and stare at the document for roughly 15 minutes before getting the urge to play some Left 4 Dead (although promising myself that I will return to the document when I’ve finished—even though I don’t). From here on in I pretty much forget about it for the rest of the month.

By oh, say, June of next year, as I am rummaging through my documents and attempting to tidy it up, I will stumble upon a file with an inane title such as writing_project.docx (I don’t really adhere to any useful file naming protocol when it comes to personal use), and think “What is this?” and you know, open it up and have a read through. Perhaps I’ll even cringe in a few places where my writing is appalling, or the story itself is particularly awkward by futuristic standards.
Depending on my reception of the story, I may take a stab at extending on it for my own pleasures, or I’ll just delete it then and there. Either way, I’ll be far from creating a valid entry for this... competition, or whatever it is, by its deadline.

Quin woke up in the morning scratching his anus. He found a coin inside it and decided to use it to buy his breakfast.:monster2:

He went to the local Mcdonalds and demand a meal. With a coin in his hand and a rotten fish in another, he spit at the cashier and smack her with his fish.:ariel:

The cashier was mad and the fish was rotten. There were flies hovering the fish, as well as the cashier now. She took out her handphone and dialled for the cops.:kaofight:

This does not please Quin, nor his coin or his rotten fish. Quin opened up his mouth and cover the poor cashier with it. Within seconds, the cashier is gone into Quin's stomach. :quina:

Quin was full and he still have his coin and his rotten fish. It had been a satisfying morning, until he got run over by a monster truck. :sophia:

His coin and his fish were lying on the paddle of blood. The blood of Quin. :gruffi: