NaNos Unite! Summer WriMos is here!

[Rifted]

Whoo-hoo, almost to 4K.

Right now, my main character's going to run into his soon-to-be sidekick-buddy type friend. >D

*dives downstairs to grab some ice cream as well*

[Anrea]

Rifted

Whoo-hoo, almost to 4K.

Right now, my main character's going to run into his soon-to-be sidekick-buddy type friend. >D

*dives downstairs to grab some ice cream as well*

Kyehehehehe, you cannot resist the temptation of the ice cream empire! *makes a note to put an ice cream empire in That One Story*

[Rifted]

Well, I'm not going to wait around for the ice cream truck and its speakers that endlessly play Brahm's Lullaby. blaugh

*ACTUALLY leaves to get ice cream*

[Destruction Kitty]

The Queen's got a strong liking for one of her maids and, in the section I just started on, tries to force herself on her. This is going to have a profound impact on the maid, of course, but also on the general populace of the country and international relations.

The abuse of power is the main issue here. domokun

[Anrea]

Interesting stuff 3nodding

Hmm...To pair my MC with one of his army buddies or not...

[Drucillia]

I'm all excited that I've gone over 2,500 words. Hmm, I'm hoping I can get more words done a day during the summer break (once school is over). Mine is pretty much a romantic-comedy, where two bestfriends, one a boy and one a girl, plot to find the perfect person for each other by the end of the school year.

[Khetienn]

Fweeee, another WriMo? *flails* I didn't miss the start by too much! If I managed 50,000 in 30 days, I can sure as hell do it in 3 months... *runs off to start plotting*

[Eirein]

Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.

I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.

[Drucillia]

Eirein

Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.

I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.

OMG I think that 'Tales from a Genderless Loser' thing is such a cool idea. *is upset that I didn't think it up* Well, alas I'll have to stick with my story idea.

[Soulside Journey]

Damn Gaia eating my post!

So, now this post won't be as good as the first one. I'm having a little issue. You see, my story is about a selection of people (for various different reasons) who are taken from the "central realm" to this "new realm". So, what I have right now is the last moments of their life in the central realm, and then the first moments in the other realm. And then, after that the story really starts. The point of view switches a lot, and like, there's sorta a "log" that's kept on the world, explaining major events which is told by a star. So anyway, my issue is should I start it off when the story really starts and then add in the characters? Or leave it like this, and then start the story after the characters get into the realm?

That must seem confusing. I confused myself. >_<

[Eirein]

Hey, romantic-comedies are alawys welcome, and 2500 words beats out 0 words any day.

Anyway, I don't think I can pull off writing "Tales from a Genderless Loser". ninja

[Soulside Journey]

Eirein

Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.

I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.

Ohh, I did that with a book once. I tend to do that a lot and then I think, "I shouldn't, seems how almost all my charactes are genderless". I don't know why but I just love the concept of someone not having a gender.

You should go for that, it's really fun writing without a gender.

[Eirein]

Soulside Journey

Eirein

Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.

I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.

Ohh, I did that with a book once. I tend to do that a lot and then I think, "I shouldn't, seems how almost all my charactes are genderless". I don't know why but I just love the concept of someone not having a gender.

You should go for that, it's really fun writing without a gender.

I did try it before with one of my characters, but it became hard to refer to them as "it" constantly. It seemed almost like I was lowering their importance, or making them less than human. I know I could have explored these topics in my book, but it was getting hard to go on, so I went the cheap way out and allowed my character to switch to the male gender. Do you know if I could do something to help this?

[Hiriyou]

Writer's block, oh how you torment me! gonk

[Soulside Journey]

Eirein

Soulside Journey

Eirein

Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.

I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.

Ohh, I did that with a book once. I tend to do that a lot and then I think, "I shouldn't, seems how almost all my charactes are genderless". I don't know why but I just love the concept of someone not having a gender.

You should go for that, it's really fun writing without a gender.

I did try it before with one of my characters, but it became hard to refer to them as "it" constantly. It seemed almost like I was lowering their importance, or making them less than human. I know I could have explored these topics in my book, but it was getting hard to go on, so I went the cheap way out and allowed my character to switch to the male gender. Do you know if I could do something to help this?

Well, with me I hardly ever refer to my characters as "he" "she" or "it" so it didn't really affect me much. So instead of saying "he" I just explained the action that was being preformed. It really depends on how you're writing it. Like first person, it's fairly easy to create a whole story of genderless characters. Third person is a little tricky, but you can explain things based on personality. Like, personality traits, or things that they do. If they're a smoker for instance, you can refer to them as "the smoker" when absolutely needed. Normally, I just use actions to describe things, though. If you want to say "It walked toward the door" you can describe it by saying what kinds of shoes it was wearing, how it walked, what it sounded like, etc. (anything that will contribute to description, everyone walks differently) If you described your character, and your characters personality has been strong before this point then it won't be an issue.

I'm really bad at explaining, so sorry.