YAY! Welcome back, Sionainn. We've missed your snippets :).
And I've never thought anything of yours has been bad, so I'm sure whatever you write will indeed be glorious.
Good luck, and I hope whatever you do write will be pleasing to you.
13 years ago
Fri Dec 07 2012, 08:44pm
Since today is the first, we've got exactly one month to reach our goals so I figured I'd better actually work out how much I need to actually do that--especially since I have fallen behind so much. My typed wordcount is 18,537 with a total estimate of 23,000 rounded down. Thus with the terribly short month of Feb having 29 days this year (yay one more day) I will have to write at least 932 words a day to reach my goal of 50,000.
So easy peasy I hope.
Anyway, onward with some nonsense:
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I love reading your work, Sionainn. It's amazing how much personality you can reveal in your characters with just a few short paragraphs. It's wonderful, and I'm glad you're writing again.
Good luck with your goal.
Thank you, Darga.
I've only written 1,600 words since my last post, but I blame the social life and being stuck in the city for a day which made me sleepy . . . therefore I could not write.
13 years ago
Fri Dec 07 2012, 08:44pm
EDIT Recent post thing, why are you showing my entire post? It is creppy and weird! Please stop it now . . . this is a long post. STOP IT
*dpm* Being sick has meant I have written about 800 words over the last week. I think it's obvious now that I probably won't reach my aim, so I'll just hope to finish off the last few chapters that I wanted to re-write for Troglodyte. That shouldn't be too hard to reach since I've already written everything and it's just a matter of editing what I like and changing what sucks.
Anyway have extract in which I attempt to half describe a main character. I can describe my minor characters fine, but as soon as it comes to main characters I stumble all over myself even though I know what they look like. :| Derp Derp
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Ha ha ha - I love the lines "Alex looked happy. ... There was something very, very wrong." It gives me the impression that Frederick is a rather pessimistic character, who is likely to search every happy event for the inevitable catch :). I loved this snippet, Sionainn. It's very mysterious - introducing a ghost (who is not a ghost) wandering around through a junkyard. It's also funny - I think if you write in the point of a view of a pessimist, you either end up with a very gloomy story, or a slightly sarcastic, humourous one, and for this snippet, at least, I think you've done the latter.
So what's this event? Where is this junkyard? Who is Alex and why does Frederick think he's dead? Need more!! :)
13 years ago
Fri Dec 07 2012, 08:45pm
Haha, Frederick is definitely somewhat pessimistic but he and Alex effectively grew up hating one another, so whatever is good for one is automatically classed as bad for the other. They rarely happen across one another in a good/happy mood since they instantly put each other into bad ones.
But anyway, they exist in a world where most forms of technology have been band after an event/war that occured several hundred years ago, but there is a huge blackmarket trade in it. So, they are in a storage facility where artifacts that have been dug up are temporarilly being stored until they can be shipped to the mainland and sold (they are currently living on a small island that hosts an old burried city among other things). Alex, as mentioned before, grew up in the same place as Rick and he was supposedly killed some months before that snippet. Oh and I forgot to add that Rick is there because they are looking for something to fix a robot.
And wow, I'm only just noticing how sci-fi-ish this all must look. It's actually leans a lot more to a fantasy side . . . ANYWAY, I found a heap of words on my iPad the other day, and I've been rewriting and editing a lot too, so things are good.
This snippet comes a lot earlier, and is part of stuff im trying to rework and rewrite at the moment. It's weird going through all the older stuff.
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Thanks for the background! You've got some amazing story ideas roiling around in your head, Sionainn :). I love the way you write - there always seem to be just that little bit of humour and sarcasm even when you're describing scary stuff. I've always liked sarcasm!
"Fugit's face greeted one and then hit the floor" is a nice line :). And the Inhumans are intriguing characters. It's interesting that Frederick recognises one. Were they once people, or has Frederick been captured by one before perhaps?
Just a quick post: I managed to hit the 50,000 words after all!! [act]happy dance[/act]
Oh wow!!!! What an achievement, especially as you had that period where you weren't writing at all. Congratulations :).
Yays! Well done, Sionainn!
I don't know how you wrote so much on your iPad, those darn machines are impossible to use for anything but games, but that's just me :P From your explanation, it does sound a tad sci-fi, but the actual story in itself I can grasp as fantasy. You've made it so that it's easy to be drawn to the characters, and their actions. The description of what's happening is very nice: such as "Fugit's face greeting one of the pots" :P I hope you keep going with this :)
Okay, so in the last week I have written 5106 words, though I'm not really sure how many of them have been since OberNoWriWin offically began. Probably less than half because I have been primarily working on exam revision of the last several days. Either way, WOOT!
Mystic Guilden
12 years ago
Mystic Guilden
Mage
Absolutely WOOT! OberNo or not, words are words, and that is a nice starting point :D Well done Sionainn!
Well done, Sionainn! Nice work.
Wanderer Ward
12 years ago
Wanderer Ward
Dreamscape Artist
So many words! Huzzah! :D I can't wait to get started myself, just two more essays :X
Are you working on the same story you worked on during the summer?
I'm always working on the same story! I'll be dead before I finish it all completely. ::facepalm:: My other stories barely get looked at.
12 years ago
Fri Dec 07 2012, 08:46pm
Pffft, I refuse to acknowledge that my writing contains anything serious, but thanks. That's actually a huge compliment.
And as if to prove such, I have just realised that anytime someone meets my protagonist they always seem to end up asking if there is something wrong with him mentally?? Hmm. There probably is.
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I always think of Frederick as an awkward teenager. Possibly a bit slow and socially awkward, but otherwise pretty much mentally intact! I keep imagining he'll grow out of his vague patheticness (if he survives that long!) He's really a very effective character. Yep, Yelka was in the last scene with the bag of stolen chickens (poor chickens).
I'm really very curious to know about the overarching plot. This snippet must be reasonably early in the piece, because when I last met Yelka, all the kids seemed to know each other (I presume they are all kids, or at most young adults?) I know Eloise has some kind of power. Does Frederick at all, other than the power of introducing hilarity in an otherwise tense situation? You've casually mentioned witches, and some kind of monster, and parents dying as if it's an everyday occurrence. What sort of world is this? Do you have any notes about it that you could share? And a vague outline of what's going on (not spoiling the outcome of the story, of course!)? And if you ever stick all these snippets in one piece, I'd love to have a read of the whole thing!
Oh, and I haven't really mentioned that I love this snippet, as I do all of them! I always feel like I'm right there, standing at Frederick's shoulder. It's very easy to get immersed in your work.
Hmm, as I think I've mentioned previously, this is all from a set of 8 books so it's a little difficult to explain the overarching plot since it's so mixed up with all the subplots for each book and then all the subplots within them. Heck, the overall plot doesn't even really properlly show it's head until the end of the 5th storyline . . . and of course just to complicate matters the overall storyline revolves around Eloise and Alex and so therefore I decide to not use either of them as my protagonist!
But I guess it just works off the old 'save the world' premise--with the exception being that how or why the world needs saving doesn't become clear until it's pretty much happening and even then it is completely different to what anyone expected at that point. Eloise has been convinced from a young age that she is meant to save the world, however. She tends to get brushed off for the most part and it's a long time before anyone really takes her seriously about it. She spends a lot of time unwittingly getting involved with everything connected to it though.
And that doesn't really explain a lot. Um, it spans roughly 8 years, from Rick's 13th to 21st birthday. It's set roughly 300 years after a post-apocolyptic event and war. The event being what caused the war but being something that is a mystery for the most part. Accordingly though, the structure of the world completely changed afterwards and in the current day most forms of technology have been banned by an organisation known either as the Annonymous or the Mortifera. The organisation is pretty much the only reason any form of society still exists and they act as a kind of world police in a way. They are of course involved in a lot more devious exploits however, one being the society Rick and few of the other characters grew up in. They were completely cut off from the rest of the world and lived under a very different undersatnding of it. This is basically where the story starts.
Paranormal abilities aren't uncommon but aren't often held in high regard. They are usually seen as a bit usless. The only people who bother to train their abilities if they have them are obscenely rich people with too much time and people who can teleport. Porters are not particualrly common, however, but their is a huge industry for their employment. Eloise can regenerate at an exponential rate and basically has complete control over her own biology. She is rare in that her ability does not often wear her our or make her tired and is also extremely developed. Frederick is ultimately useless in every regard and accordingly has no ability. It doesn't bother him at all.
The witch isn't so much a witch in the traditional sense, she is merely someone who has an even rarer form of ability that is seen as something that doesn't actually exist. Where most people draw the energy required to use them from themselves, the witch is able to draw it from external sources which means she basically has an unlimited supply and can do pretty much anything she puts her mind to. The problem with that kind of ability is that it is a lot more unpredictable and unstable and generally ends up with a lot of dead things left behind.
This is all still pretty vague, so sorry.
Ohhh 8 books! I must have missed that post.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes things a little clearer. And poor, useless Frederick :)
The plot is pointedly convulted and not actually all that important anyway--at least I don't think so. It's all just an excuse to write about a bunch silly people doing equally silly things! Plot exists only to make things stupider.
Anyway, I'm on a total roll today. Done 3,500 words already and the sun has only just set, a rare and unheard of phenomenon because words never come out during the daytime. So random question time: When do you write the most?
Traditionally, I only really write in the middle of the night. Not sure why. I think maybe because when I first started writing consistently I always used to do it before I went to bed so now it's just kinda stuck as being a night time thing for the most part.
mmmm, me too, usually. Not as late as you, though. I've seen your 4am posts! I tend to get my best writing periods between say 10ish and 1am.
Well done popping out 3500 today, though! I am impressed.
Now back to my study :(
Mystic Ward
12 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Love it Sionnain. Frederick is a great character. Have a check for a couple of typos. Quiet not quite and scar not scare.
