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Writing Words - writing it is the only way of getting it written
Finished your novel and got your purple winner bar? Excellent, well done.
Are you getting close? Hang in there, the finishing line is in sight.
But if not, don't feel bad. Look at your wordcount. How high is it? Have you ever written a coherent story of that length before? If the answer is no: Congratulations, now you know you can do it. And even if you wrote longer fiction before, now you have another work in progress you can turn into a well-crafted story.
That's the beauty of NaNoWriMo: As long as you rose to the challenge and gave it your best, it doesn't really matter if you made it across the 50k mark or not. You wrote therefore you win.
By the time the imagination is finished with a fact, believe me, it bears no resemblance to a fact.
Philip Roth
Take the facts and run wild with them.
Picture prompt:
Boris bikes
Write about the public transport system in your world: hire bicycle scheme, subway, flying carpets, beaming? How do your characters get around the place?
"Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it."
Neil Gaiman (from the Guardian, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction)
Don't know about you, but that's my motto for this weekend. Get as close to 50k as I can and somewhere in the vicinity of having told the whole story.
One of your main characters finds herself/himself in a position where she/he has to defend something she/he doesn’t believe in.
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg
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Are you behind a little? Are you behind a lot? If you are, don't worry. So am I. It doesn't matter because we still have an entire week left to write.
Here's the thing: Your wordcount today doesn't matter. What matters is the amount of words you'll have in a week today. You want to be a winner? Then believe in yourself and write every time you have a spare moment over the next seven days
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Picture prompt:
Eccentric Headgear
My reason for not writing and for being late with today's NaNo inspiration: Fever. It didn't really inspire me, fingers crossed it'll work better for you.
Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King (On Writing)
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Picture prompt:
Rising sun lighting up Canary Wharf
There was supposed to be a picture prompt today, but the picture upload is broken for me.
So instead of being inspired by the photograph, write about something that's broken.
Secrets are great for injecting more conflict into your story. There’s the internal conflict of the character who has the secret, and there’s also a possibility for external conflict when another character knows there is a secret to be uncovered. What will the first character do to keep her/his secret, to which lengths will the second character go to find out what she/he is trying to hide?
If you can’t think of a good secret that would spice up your NaNo novel, browse Postsecret.com for inspiration (not longer than 15 minutes, though!).
You know these chain emails that promise you luck/money/the love of your life if you send them on to so and so many of your friends? I just go one of those. The dialog won't win awards, but it's a tolerable example of someone fishing for information:
Girl: What's wrong
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Write about a forgetful character or have a character forget something that has terrible consequences.
(And I'll try my best to post these in the morning again ... if I do it first thing, I hope I won't forget. Fingers crossed.)
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse....All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle
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Freedom: What does it mean for your main character? Is she/he free according to her/his definition? If not, how is she/he going to change that?
Picture prompt
Getting Close to Daisy
Inspiration lurks everywhere, even in unwanted emails. Use one of the emails in your spam folder, or, if you are one of the few lucky ones who don’t get spammed, use the following paragraph:
“I have now decided to give all my wealth to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth so far. I once asked members of my family to close one of my account and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.”
Write about a donation: either one your character makes and why or one a character receives.
There's a bit of a story behind this writing prompt
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Picture prompt:
Sit back and relax
Today is Guy Fawkes Day in Great Britain, so I'll probably go out and watch the fireworks tonight, and then write about them.
Here's a writing prompt for you: Write about a plot that is foiled, bonfires and fireworks or a tradition.
Click on the link to get a random writing prompt from Write One Leaf. Don't think about it, just write for the next 10 minutes.
"I'd gotten going, there was that much. The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."
Stephen King, On Writing (page 325)
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