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If you need motivation, pick up No Plot? No Problem! It won't teach you much about the craft, but it's an entertaining, inspiring little book from the NaNoWriMo inventor.
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Yeah well, I'm already insane enough, thank you.
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From a G+ posted by David Brin:
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During November, I'll be laying out the illustrated version of a new fairy tale collection, and beta-reading a friend's NaNoWriMo effort from last year. The kind of writing I do doesn't lend itself to NaNoWriMo kind of thing - too many short stories, and I don't think I could come up with a new short story a day for 30 days.
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I do enjoy world building and had, for example, a great time designing an original magic system, but creating a novel-spanning plot doesn't come naturally to me. Snapshots are more my thing. |
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There are a number of these like Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson and recently Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad? |
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And Ray Bradbury wanted to write a book like Winesburg Ohio when he came up with what became "The Martian Chronicles."
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10-24-2013, 06:39 PM | #24 |
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Well, I thought I was focused on an idea/story...the one that was slightly more fleshed out than the other one, but a number of things have sort of come together today to push me in the second direction......this after several days of not writing anything and pretty much deciding not to do nano......at the moment this idea seems to be coming together and I think it could have plenty of stuff to easily be a full fledged novel.
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Thanks....idea is still hot at the moment, spent a bit more time fleshing it out, will continue to work on 'outline' etc and see if it still feels right....It has lots of options, lots of possibilities for the main story arc and as many subplots as I want to throw at it.
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That's what's fun about story ideas, they can go in just about any direction til the possibilities are nailed down into a storyline, and even then a new twist can appear out of the blue during the writing.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Triggering.../dp/039333872X Not necessarily about fiction but it applies to all writing IMO. Focused on the idea of what trigger/inspiration starts a piece of writing and what happens from there. |
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