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 Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:51 pm
Day one is an hour from being over and I don't even have a plot, characters, or any inkling as to what I'm going to write this year.
Should I play off an old short story I wrote a couple years past or rack up something quickly before time gets to me?
I don't even know if I should break it down into chapters or just cut my storry off in sections! I need some serious help!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:06 pm
I don't have a plot either! (Actually I shouldn't even be writing at all, since I've got exams coming up in a couple of days and I totally need to study... sweatdrop ) I just started writing and I'm making it up as I go. It doesn't matter if it sounds dumb. The point is just to write and have fun with it biggrin
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:52 pm
I'm with SilverTalion about not needing a plot. I have an inkling of my plot, but I'm not sure yet, so wherever I end up going, I'll end up there. xd The year I did the most in had absolutely no plot - my direction changed daily. And this year, all my characters are recycled from past years. I just chose the characters I was the most fond of and used them. Let's see how it turns out, shall we?
(Hehe, though doing that makes me feel like CLAMP, since I'm essentially keeping most of their background story the same and just stuffing them somewhere else.)
The funnest part is seeing where you end up. Most of the time I ended up in a place I did not intend to visit, but it was such an intriguing tangent I kept going anyway. Plus, I'm used to not sleeping (sort of), so so what if I lose an extra study hour writing? *grins*
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:37 am
I too have a little bit of a plot but nothing more. I'm mostly just letting my imagination go free and I'll worry about the minor details later. Sometimes, plotless is the best way to go. I'm also building up my characters by using them in roleplays, and trying to randomly make more as time goes on. The fun about writing is that there are endless possibilities. Well, that's how I look at it anyway. And besides, in that one pep talk I got yesterday morning, the author who gave it said that if we know what we're doing, then our story will be plain and boring (not in those words, of course). So really, it's okay to have no idea what your doing. It just adds to the thrill of it (in my opinion again)!
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:37 pm
Well you're going have to start sometime! Somewhere! As a writer, you can start with anything! All you need is a character, or an image, or a setting, or a plot, and things will explode. I started out with two nameless characters and a really intriguing sentence, and now I have a story. But absolutely no plot. I have conditions, but no direction. But it'll come--I know it will.
Start with something--anything that sparks your imagination; a picture, a sentence, a trinket. Go through the newspaper. See that house that was burned down? But no one was there? Ask yourself why they weren't there. Did they run? Did they have a time-vortex at their disposal, or was the little sister kidnapped, and those in the house gone to save her--accidentally forgetting to turn the stove off?
But whatever you do, don't work off of an old story. sweatdrop
If I've done my research right (I also bought the book _No Plot! No Problem!_ by Chris Baty) and the point of NaNo is to do it from scratch. But I don't really know for sure. Just my take on things.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:58 pm
Plot? Who needs it. Just create a character and let him do whatever he wants. As a great writer once said "Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so just get out of the way."
If need be, then find a generator or create a list to roll dice against to generate your own happenings whenever you get stuck. The story will be silly but it is the quantity that counts in NaNo, not quality.
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