Comments on: NaNoWriMo: How I Plot My Novel

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:12:45 +0000

BigWords: Far out. I can already see from your comment that your idea is quite huge. I’m mighty jealous.

Jodi: Sorry that my post gave you an anxiety attack. I have been thinking about what you said and can really understand where you’re coming from. I suppose my question about the ending is part of that.

Oh and those aren’t my cards; just a flickr photo. I wish I was that far into my planning! But I do hope this year is my year.

By: Jodi Cleghorn

Jodi Cleghorn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:47:27 +0000

I have to share something quite bizarre. Reading this gave me a serious anxiety attack. Not because of what you would think.

I’m not going into anxiety overload because I haven’t planned anything – it is the thought of planning which freaks me out.

I once read you can only tell as story once – not sure where I read it, or who had written it, but that’s how I feel. Once I put anything down – ideas, plot lines etc – it is like my story has gone. Like the energy which comes with the story has been committed. I know I sound like a freak.

Given I am continuing on from last year’s … I was keen to at least give the snowflake method a crack – just for curiosities sake – but I think at the end of the day I’m far too supersititious.

I love the cards you have written. I have a whole heap left over from being at uni (they were my study cards) Sounds like this is the year for you Ben.
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By: BigWords88

BigWords88 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:01 +0000

Even if I wanted to – and it isn’t that I’s really precious about my ideas – I don’t think telling someone all about my novel would help. Things get very, very complicated with my stuff, and I usually end up horribly overwriting to compensate for beginning at a fresh place in time. There is no “previously…” as in television shows, so I like to prove that I have at least considered the how’s and why’s that led my characters to the place the novel begins.

This is my first NaNo, so I’m probably over-compensating with at least three time-frames and a couple of major novel ideas thrown into the mix. If I end up with a trilogy it wouldn’t be surprising. Can you imagine being cornered by me, as I reel off a hundred or so years of characters, events and funny bits that I have come up with? No. I would take forever to get through everything I’m throwing into the story. Even a pared down version (the bare bones) would probably take three or four hours to describe.

I’m working out the OS which runs the city-of-the-future in which my story takes place… It’s the kind of little details everyone will ignore, or be bemused by, but I have to know it is workable or else I’ll freak out and add a hundred thousand words to get the framework for all of the technology right. Laugh all you want, I’m determined to win…
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By: John Pender

John Pender — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:45:59 +0000

I’m not writing mine for the contest, but I’m stuck in my outline somewhere around the end. The beginning is done, out of rough draft stage and everything, but I haven’t even touched the middle yet.
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