Comments | chu_hi: 22,592 words down... 27,408 words to go in eight short days.

chu_hi

22,592 words down... 27,408 words to go in eight short days.

Nov 22, 2006 10:17

Morning! I'm back from a surprise trip to Melbourne-Auckland-Melbourne. The plan was to save hundreds of dollars and write about 10,000 words. But I was having too much fun, and ultimately saved less than $100 and wrote only 3,300 words. I cashed in a few brain cells, as well.

Here's another excerpt, unpolished and unexciting.
( A flashback to high school. Two siblings and a friend are on an excursion into The City, where they go to the library and museum and feel quite grown up. )

nanowrimo

Comments 4

evilbil November 22 2006, 07:54:23 UTC

i always think of people writing very rushed, unthoughtful stuff during Novel writing month. But this is great. Very nice. And impeccable grammar/punctuation :)

chu_hi November 24 2006, 11:36:19 UTC

Thanks! =D

istara November 23 2006, 17:55:52 UTC

You know what's doing my head in? Every single "Top Ten Tips for Writers" site has this only ever use "he said" mega rule thing going on. So I'm having to go back through my work, taking out all the lovely elegant: "he stated" and "she pointed out sadly" and "she muttered" and "she replied" and put he said he said he said he said and it is KILLING me. It's the inverse of how you'd write a good old tabloid newspaper report, which I'm trained in, so it's majorly screwing with my head.

chu_hi November 24 2006, 11:34:00 UTC

I've heard that, too, and I pretty much only use "said," because I don't want to sound like Harry Potter... I think it might have been malo23 who said JK Rowling uses all these adverbs like "she said arrogantly," "he declared purposefully," or whatever. But I think if you have your own style which you've developed, you can make up your own rules. You write for a living, and extremely well if I may say so, so I think your characters can "state" or "point out" or "mutter" and totally get away with it!