Don't give up. You must suffer with us. If you're sick, take a break for now and start again tomorrow.
If you're out of plot ideas, just start writing very short stories. Make them connect later on. Or pretend you're writing an e-mail to the greatest friend on Earth who understands everything about you. Then copy the e-mails all together, and there's your story. Also if you're really, really out of plot ideas, write a screen play starring Chuck Norris. He was on Spike TV in a movie this week where he was fighting evil Nazi jewel thieves. I'm sure anyone could write something better. Just have him going to different dimensions where he takes on different roles. Oh, wait. That's been done. That was "Quantum Leap." But not with Chuck Norris.
I sort of have a similar problem in that I don't own a laptop. If I go anywhere to write, I have to write freehand also. I always end up w/ about 800 words; never anything more. There's probably a different thinking process involved with freehand. If you can't change the situation, don't worry about reaching 50K. Reaching 20K is still more than what most people do in a month. I saw in the forum that some nano-ers were in last year's contest and didn't reach 50K. They "re-working" their novel from last year in this year's contest.
I totally agree about the thinking process difference! I write pretty quickly, in terms of physical speed, but when I'm writing longhand it seems like I have to constantly pause and compose what I'm going to write next, even though I'm not critiquing my work at all. Whereas typing, I do a lot of spontaneous composing -- like this comment, for instance, and blogging posts.
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No, No, No
Date: 2006-11-03 10:34 pm (UTC)If you're out of plot ideas, just start writing very short stories. Make them connect later on. Or pretend you're writing an e-mail to the greatest friend on Earth who understands everything about you. Then copy the e-mails all together, and there's your story. Also if you're really, really out of plot ideas, write a screen play starring Chuck Norris. He was on Spike TV in a movie this week where he was fighting evil Nazi jewel thieves. I'm sure anyone could write something better. Just have him going to different dimensions where he takes on different roles. Oh, wait. That's been done. That was "Quantum Leap." But not with Chuck Norris.
Re: No, No, No
Date: 2006-11-05 01:35 am (UTC)Re: No, No, No
Date: 2006-11-05 01:31 pm (UTC)If you can't change the situation, don't worry about reaching 50K. Reaching 20K is still more than what most people do in a month. I saw in the forum that some nano-ers were in last year's contest and didn't reach 50K. They "re-working" their novel from last year in this year's contest.
Re: No, No, No
Date: 2006-11-05 11:03 pm (UTC)