Greetings From The Land Of 10,000 Crying Boys
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - I didn't write a single word today since I spent the day navigating how to get into New Jersey and then working while I was here. However yesterday night between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. while my friend smileydevil was on the phone with her ex-boyfriend in Chicago, I managed to get in 1,355 words breaking the 10,000 plateau (the first big hurdle).
Smileydevil is also a writer so she was very understanding of the fact that I would be anti-social with the laptop. We actually discussed NaNoWriMo as we stayed up past 2:00 a.m. again. The only reason she hasn't done it herself is that someone who she knows who did something evil is really involved in it. It has to be a Chicago type but I didn't bother asking who to try to look them up.
We discussed writing in general and movies that were well written. I told her about how I couldn't guess the ending of "The Sixth Sense" or "Fight Club" and how I was worried about not being able to hide the identity of the government informant (though being tired I said, "government informer" which put the Snow song in her head and when she mentioned that it did put that terrible song in mine). She told me that he only advice to me was to not try too hard or else it would end up being obvious.
The trick that I'm using is that I myself still don't know which of the group of five friends of Liam's is the informer. They all have their reasons to be coerced by the police into being a snitch and I'll just choose which of the reasons sounds the most moderate. I know it's not going to be the one with the most reason to turn.
In reality, I'm thinking who the informant is isn't as important as how Liam confronts them. That's the conflict in the story. Still I'd like to make it a little suspenseful to the reader as it goes along.
On the way to the train this morning, smileydevil and I were discussing dialog (and how I couldn't be an asshole guy even if I tried). I tried to convince her that I could be really evil mentally and used the example that I would have a character in the novel, when confronted with a situation the two of us were actually confronted with, someone trying to force their baby on us in passing with a smile, say, "that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen, I'm scarred for life."
She told me that I wouldn't actually say that and I realized that no one would actually say that. Then and there in Brooklyn I decided that I would use no over the top dialog because she and I both agreed that the only way to get dialog wrong is if it's not realistic.
I think I owe her a big acknowledgement when (if) all is said and done.
And now, the contests:
2004 NaNoWriMo: 12,859 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 10,377 words
reliantfc3: 21,333 words
incendiarymind: 10,377 words
Team Chicago 2005: 578,756 words (47 of the fastest writers I know)
Team St. Louis 2005: 477,693 words
By the way, if anyone reading this is in California::Los Angeles, pat yourself on the back. Your region is #1 on NaNoWriMo overall with 776,653 words as of this morning. I'm glad Chicago didn't challenge them since they seem to be writing maniacs!
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Smileydevil is also a writer so she was very understanding of the fact that I would be anti-social with the laptop. We actually discussed NaNoWriMo as we stayed up past 2:00 a.m. again. The only reason she hasn't done it herself is that someone who she knows who did something evil is really involved in it. It has to be a Chicago type but I didn't bother asking who to try to look them up.
We discussed writing in general and movies that were well written. I told her about how I couldn't guess the ending of "The Sixth Sense" or "Fight Club" and how I was worried about not being able to hide the identity of the government informant (though being tired I said, "government informer" which put the Snow song in her head and when she mentioned that it did put that terrible song in mine). She told me that he only advice to me was to not try too hard or else it would end up being obvious.
The trick that I'm using is that I myself still don't know which of the group of five friends of Liam's is the informer. They all have their reasons to be coerced by the police into being a snitch and I'll just choose which of the reasons sounds the most moderate. I know it's not going to be the one with the most reason to turn.
In reality, I'm thinking who the informant is isn't as important as how Liam confronts them. That's the conflict in the story. Still I'd like to make it a little suspenseful to the reader as it goes along.
On the way to the train this morning, smileydevil and I were discussing dialog (and how I couldn't be an asshole guy even if I tried). I tried to convince her that I could be really evil mentally and used the example that I would have a character in the novel, when confronted with a situation the two of us were actually confronted with, someone trying to force their baby on us in passing with a smile, say, "that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen, I'm scarred for life."
She told me that I wouldn't actually say that and I realized that no one would actually say that. Then and there in Brooklyn I decided that I would use no over the top dialog because she and I both agreed that the only way to get dialog wrong is if it's not realistic.
I think I owe her a big acknowledgement when (if) all is said and done.
And now, the contests:
2004 NaNoWriMo: 12,859 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 10,377 words
reliantfc3: 21,333 words
incendiarymind: 10,377 words
Team Chicago 2005: 578,756 words (47 of the fastest writers I know)
Team St. Louis 2005: 477,693 words
By the way, if anyone reading this is in California::Los Angeles, pat yourself on the back. Your region is #1 on NaNoWriMo overall with 776,653 words as of this morning. I'm glad Chicago didn't challenge them since they seem to be writing maniacs!
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