For those like me who have never heard of it............there is a National Novel Editing Month!!
It takes place in March.
Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Finished NaNoWriMo
I did it!!! I finished with my 50000 word count goal before the November 30 at midnight deadline. I am so excited!!
That said however I have not finished my story. I will continue to work on it through the month of November. Then next month I will decide whether to keep writing or start editing.
That said however I have not finished my story. I will continue to work on it through the month of November. Then next month I will decide whether to keep writing or start editing.
Characters in my story
I realized today that I have talked often about my story and writing it. But I have not told you the first thing about it. I think that is partly because I was going by the seat of my pants and didn't pre-plan the story out. But today I want to correct that, at least partially.
The story starts with my main character~
A 25 year old female, trying to escape from her abusive husband who has lots of friends in high places, so she must be extremely careful not to get caught.
A 30-year old young man, who is rejected by society, an orphan, his teenage history of being a problem child precedes him, society accuses him of being trouble and committing crimes, leaving society he sets out on his own.
A 15 year old autistic boy, who wakes to hear his parents shot, barely escapes into the woods behind his house.
A 6 year old, African American child, who was found tied to a log in the forest, leg pinned under a log, badly beaten and abused.
All the characters are on a journey to find freedom, peace, acceptance, and understanding, and possibly themselves.
The story starts with my main character~
A 25 year old female, trying to escape from her abusive husband who has lots of friends in high places, so she must be extremely careful not to get caught.
A 30-year old young man, who is rejected by society, an orphan, his teenage history of being a problem child precedes him, society accuses him of being trouble and committing crimes, leaving society he sets out on his own.
A 15 year old autistic boy, who wakes to hear his parents shot, barely escapes into the woods behind his house.
A 6 year old, African American child, who was found tied to a log in the forest, leg pinned under a log, badly beaten and abused.
All the characters are on a journey to find freedom, peace, acceptance, and understanding, and possibly themselves.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Creating Characters online
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Want an image of your character to look at to keep your descriptions somewhat consistent, but can’t draw or get an artist to draw a picture for you? Luckily there’s a lot of free online avatar makers you can use as a placeholder.
Gaia Dream Avatar Maker. Very cartoony (most of them are cartoony, but this one even more so), but a whole lot of options. Also one of the better choices for fantasy characters, as they’ve got a lot of fantastical clothing options.
Crysandrea Dream Avatar Maker. More realistic than Gaia though still anime-esque. Less clothing options, but more color choices for each item. Great for making humanoid fantasy monsters, or normal people.
Dream Selfy. Fun because it’s animated. Very much chibi. Loads of options, though can be difficult to sort though.
Digibody’s Caricature Maker. Not the prettiest results, but if you’ve got a character that isn’t anime-attractive all the time, this can help you define their face shape and proportions.
Meez Avatar Maker. It’s 3D!~ A fair amount of options. Note you don’t actually have to sign up to use the maker, but you won’t be able to save the avatar so you’ll have to take a screenshot. You’ll have to do that either way, actually…
If your character looks like a human, you can do a search for “PBs” (played-bys) on InsaneJournal. There are a lot of icon makers for journal-based role-playing on IJ, and some categorize by nationality, age, gender, hair color, etc. It can be very useful. And not all of the faces are “celebrities” either.
eLouai’s Candybar doll makers
http://elouai.com/candybar5/newroot.php
It’s a more realistic anime-style than Gaia or Crysandrea, along with stupid amounts of clothes and hair styles. A good thing to note is that, out of the 3000ish hair styles, only 1000ish of them show up if you sort by color. Have fun.
Want an image of your character to look at to keep your descriptions somewhat consistent, but can’t draw or get an artist to draw a picture for you? Luckily there’s a lot of free online avatar makers you can use as a placeholder.
Gaia Dream Avatar Maker. Very cartoony (most of them are cartoony, but this one even more so), but a whole lot of options. Also one of the better choices for fantasy characters, as they’ve got a lot of fantastical clothing options.
Crysandrea Dream Avatar Maker. More realistic than Gaia though still anime-esque. Less clothing options, but more color choices for each item. Great for making humanoid fantasy monsters, or normal people.
Dream Selfy. Fun because it’s animated. Very much chibi. Loads of options, though can be difficult to sort though.
Digibody’s Caricature Maker. Not the prettiest results, but if you’ve got a character that isn’t anime-attractive all the time, this can help you define their face shape and proportions.
Meez Avatar Maker. It’s 3D!~ A fair amount of options. Note you don’t actually have to sign up to use the maker, but you won’t be able to save the avatar so you’ll have to take a screenshot. You’ll have to do that either way, actually…
If your character looks like a human, you can do a search for “PBs” (played-bys) on InsaneJournal. There are a lot of icon makers for journal-based role-playing on IJ, and some categorize by nationality, age, gender, hair color, etc. It can be very useful. And not all of the faces are “celebrities” either.
eLouai’s Candybar doll makers
http://elouai.com/candybar5/newroot.php
It’s a more realistic anime-style than Gaia or Crysandrea, along with stupid amounts of clothes and hair styles. A good thing to note is that, out of the 3000ish hair styles, only 1000ish of them show up if you sort by color. Have fun.
NaNo Progress
Hey. Haven’t posted lately, mostly because I have spent all my time working on my story. The story continues to develop nicely. Although I do know I will need to edit and add some things and fine tune them next month. I will also need to finish it. :)
Thursday, November 1, 2012
National Novel Writing Month
Remember the Author I mentioned in my last post....God is still using her. She mentioned the other day on facebook and twitter that she wanted to go back to writing novels. I really was not happy with this, in fact I am ready to stop following her because God keeps using her to prick at me.
I have heard so much talk about November being National Novel Writing Month, and with that comes NaNoWriMo. I have been ignoring such talk, as I don't consider myself a writer.
Oddly enough I found myself looking at the website for this. You have to write 50,000 words in 30 days!! What!? Are you crazy? I am not doing this!!
Then 2 days prior to November 1st, I find myself registering for an account, just because I haven't been able to totally dismiss this notion. Still no intentions of going through with it. Yesterday found me creating the main character, and developing the beginning scene. And today, so far I have thought of more of the journey and some additional characters, although I haven't sat down to write for the day yet.
I may indeed be crazy....but I feel God nudging me towards trying this, even if I can't keep up and don't get the word count, just as a growth process.
I have heard so much talk about November being National Novel Writing Month, and with that comes NaNoWriMo. I have been ignoring such talk, as I don't consider myself a writer.
Oddly enough I found myself looking at the website for this. You have to write 50,000 words in 30 days!! What!? Are you crazy? I am not doing this!!
Then 2 days prior to November 1st, I find myself registering for an account, just because I haven't been able to totally dismiss this notion. Still no intentions of going through with it. Yesterday found me creating the main character, and developing the beginning scene. And today, so far I have thought of more of the journey and some additional characters, although I haven't sat down to write for the day yet.
I may indeed be crazy....but I feel God nudging me towards trying this, even if I can't keep up and don't get the word count, just as a growth process.
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