Comments on: Chris Baty, Can You Hear Me Now? http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/ ... is Nancy Drew Too Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:41:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nancy http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Nancy Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:02 +0000 http://natasha.edcentric.org/?p=108#comment-55 Once again, DS, I agree with you. I've spent the week-end cozying up with my fictional buddies and I have a great deal to learn from them... Once again, DS, I agree with you. I’ve spent the week-end cozying up with my fictional buddies and I have a great deal to learn from them…

]]> By: Darksculptures http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Darksculptures Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:38 +0000 http://natasha.edcentric.org/?p=108#comment-44 I know Chris is right! * I tried to set up a plot point for an idea I have been tinkering with since Ann's class using the formula Kathan is referencing. Every time I sit down to write, I end up way off the page. I try to restructure the plot points, and again, the same thing happens. It has taken me more time to start the full version of The Girl in The Yellow Polka-dot Hat, than it has ever taken me to write anything. Even when I had no idea what I was doing. * I say, "To Heck with Rhyme and Reason. To heck with systematic formulas." * Get close to your characters and they will reveal the plot to you! * The way I see it, I would rather have to do a little restructuring later to make sure my theme and premise are consistent, than to never start the darn book. I know Chris is right!
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I tried to set up a plot point for an idea I have been tinkering with since Ann’s class using the formula Kathan is referencing. Every time I sit down to write, I end up way off the page. I try to restructure the plot points, and again, the same thing happens. It has taken me more time to start the full version of The Girl in The Yellow Polka-dot Hat, than it has ever taken me to write anything. Even when I had no idea what I was doing.
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I say, “To Heck with Rhyme and Reason. To heck with systematic formulas.”
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Get close to your characters and they will reveal the plot to you!
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The way I see it, I would rather have to do a little restructuring later to make sure my theme and premise are consistent, than to never start the darn book.

]]> By: Nancy http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Nancy Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000 http://natasha.edcentric.org/?p=108#comment-43 Well, my characters and I just took a long walk and it was fun. I have one story (yet unfinished) where I knew, specifically, how it would end -- and it's just not so much fun to work on as the stories where I have no idea what's going to happen next. Well, my characters and I just took a long walk and it was fun. I have one story (yet unfinished) where I knew, specifically, how it would end — and it’s just not so much fun to work on as the stories where I have no idea what’s going to happen next.

]]> By: Kathan http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Kathan Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:27:22 +0000 http://natasha.edcentric.org/?p=108#comment-42 I am also beginning to thing Chris is right. After I took Alcorn's fiction class, I thought I'd better not try my hand at a novel until I had every piece of plotting done through a 9 point set of acts. I just don't write that way! I did Mean Girls with just an idea that I wanted to portray an icky work environment, make it dark humor, and I had the characters in mind. That's it. It wrote itself!! So am thinking that getting know your characters over the next week is a really good idea, and I am going to work on that, also. I am also beginning to thing Chris is right. After I took Alcorn’s fiction class, I thought I’d better not try my hand at a novel until I had every piece of plotting done through a 9 point set of acts. I just don’t write that way! I did Mean Girls with just an idea that I wanted to portray an icky work environment, make it dark humor, and I had the characters in mind. That’s it. It wrote itself!!

So am thinking that getting know your characters over the next week is a really good idea, and I am going to work on that, also.

]]> By: dayner http://natasha.edcentric.org/2009/10/22/nanowrimo-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-41 dayner Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:48:52 +0000 http://natasha.edcentric.org/?p=108#comment-41 Ya know I think Chris might be on to something. The last two stories I wrote sort of wrote themselves. Once I had my characters picked out and one serious event I started writing and it just came out. I think getting to know your characters is a good plan. Ya know I think Chris might be on to something. The last two stories I wrote sort of wrote themselves. Once I had my characters picked out and one serious event I started writing and it just came out. I think getting to know your characters is a good plan.

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