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Writer's Panic Button
Tue Oct 28 2003

Okay, I have spent most of the day thinking up and then rejecting ideas for the NaNoWriMo "write a novel in a month" story lines.

My mother even called me with her idea for a story.

I am beginning to understand the many entries by Rachel and Louise about their assignments from university. The blind panic of not being able to think of anything whatsoever to write. ( I apologize my dear girls if I ever took your panic lightly )

Other than this, everything is hunky dory.

Warm, dry, unseasonably so, but still just fine.

Tomorrow the man is coming to clean our clock.

(Not to beat anyone up. But really, to clean the grandfather clock)

It hasn't ticked a tock for about 6 months.

It will be nice to hear it chiming again.

Okay, off to brainstorm novel plots and characters....

7 Comments
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    If I had a plot, I'd be writing in my diary. Would like to help you out with an idea, but I'm bone dry.

    I see by the weather report that we just might begin to have some Fall weather. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Rainee (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    Good luck -- I'm sure you'll think of something soon. I wish I could be of more help, but all I can really say is that you're not alone with your feeling of panic.

    Just keep telling yourself what I'm telling myself, "This is going to be FUN!"

    Let's hope so anyway! LOL

    Rainee
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    i hope you think of a good one, i'm sure you will!
    a grandfather clock is something i'd really like to own someday. i wonder why they call them grandfather clocks

    sez
  • From:
    BillyTeabags (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    I find washing dishes, hot baths and walks to be a good way to get ideas going. What I hate is thinking of something in the middle of the night and then struggling with whether you should get up to write it down or go back to sleep, hoping you'll remember it in the morning.
  • From:
    AeolianSolo (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    Doesn't work for everyone, but I like to watch a couple of movies. I often find myself thinking, I wonder what if this happened, but the person did *that* instead of what the movie character did? and so forth. Many of my characters have been through very interesting hells because of my favorite movies.

    --Solo
  • From:
    AeolianSolo (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    RYC: It's a German medium iridium nib. That maker uses only mediums. I prefer fine points, although, on my Pilot Namiki Vanishing Point, the medium nib is as fine as a regular fine due to the type of nibs Japanese penmakers use. The auction is by "her-nibs", who apparently has her own studio in GA and has an INCREDIBLY beautiful selection of pens for auction. It was really hard to bid on only one. Check out www.her-nibs.com.
    Also: maybe you could write about a writer who goes insane and tries to kill her inner psychoanalyst! ;)
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    I think any method you decide to use will work for you as long as you simply don't give up. Figure out a rough word count per day and stick with that.

    You will learn heaps about writing just by sitting there and writing. But you've learnt that already, just by keeping an online diary. ;-)