Plot Ninja!
Nov. 4th, 2005 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI opened my "plot ninja" today. It's a plot idea written by a stranger. We exchanged these at the kick-off meeting with instructions to open only in case of emergency.
I was quite tempted, and so I opened it, knowing it wouldn't help, but hoping it would. Of course I've been tempted to do anything but write. Get some chocolate chips. Play a game of solitaire. Do the "medium" sudoku in today's student paper. So I opened the plot ninja, thinking that at least this distraction might be productive.
Have I built enough suspense yet? Here it is: "A major character wakens at 3:16 a.m. certain that someone very important to them has just died." This was donated by Silver. That's a good one, applicable to novels in any genre.
I'm not using it of course. Not that I have any better ideas, because I have no ideas! But I already know who the dead people are, and I'm not in the mood to add another one now.
One could argue at this point that the reason I am participating in nanowrimo is to see if I can write fiction and that now I know.
However, one could also argue that I haven't properly tried. It's like if you don't dance, so you take a dance class, then during the first lesson you feel awkward and stupid, so you decide it's not for you. I've seen people who were a complete embarrassment to themselves and to ballroom dancing, and also a danger to their partners and to others, but even they, after one to two years of lessons, were able to become competent dancers. So it is in that spirit that I am continuing. In order to get through a month of this, I am going to have to come up with new things to try and I'm going to get a lot of practice.
Meanwhile I have avoided writing fiction by making this journal entry.
Web Site of the Day: I also avoided writing by checking out "Backstreet Boys, Mandarin-style" by llcoolvad. Click on the first link when you're someplace where you can listen to it when you are in the mood to witness some youthful exuberance.
I was quite tempted, and so I opened it, knowing it wouldn't help, but hoping it would. Of course I've been tempted to do anything but write. Get some chocolate chips. Play a game of solitaire. Do the "medium" sudoku in today's student paper. So I opened the plot ninja, thinking that at least this distraction might be productive.
Have I built enough suspense yet? Here it is: "A major character wakens at 3:16 a.m. certain that someone very important to them has just died." This was donated by Silver. That's a good one, applicable to novels in any genre.
I'm not using it of course. Not that I have any better ideas, because I have no ideas! But I already know who the dead people are, and I'm not in the mood to add another one now.
One could argue at this point that the reason I am participating in nanowrimo is to see if I can write fiction and that now I know.
However, one could also argue that I haven't properly tried. It's like if you don't dance, so you take a dance class, then during the first lesson you feel awkward and stupid, so you decide it's not for you. I've seen people who were a complete embarrassment to themselves and to ballroom dancing, and also a danger to their partners and to others, but even they, after one to two years of lessons, were able to become competent dancers. So it is in that spirit that I am continuing. In order to get through a month of this, I am going to have to come up with new things to try and I'm going to get a lot of practice.
Meanwhile I have avoided writing fiction by making this journal entry.
Web Site of the Day: I also avoided writing by checking out "Backstreet Boys, Mandarin-style" by llcoolvad. Click on the first link when you're someplace where you can listen to it when you are in the mood to witness some youthful exuberance.