NaNo

[first_seventhe]

Additional problem:

Last weekend, an old idea for an original story basically... leapt into my head and wouldn't let go. And now I am thinking about taking that for my NaNo idea, mostly because it's different and -- more importantly -- short. I can get 50,000 words out of it (I could get 50,000 words out of anything), but additionally there's a

Comments

[lassarina]

I vote new thing. Think of all the feelings of accomplishment when you finish it!

[venefica_aura]

I vote for new story!

And I'm debating actually trying Nano, just not so... hardkore.

[first_seventhe]

NaNo is usually fun, and I mean, I don't ever post anything from it -- I only post whines and complaints and panicking! XD

[venefica_aura]

Ha, I thought of a solution.

Now I feel less like a loser. XD

~Cendri

[redgoldenglory]

Hey! I'm sort of an outsider to the world of your mind and I don't know what Beacon is about, and could be really awesome. In my experience though, writing concise stories always helps with writing complex stories. With long works the most important things are pacing and structure - at least for me, the more practice I get at that stuff the better, so I would feel more comfortable honing my skills on the nano story and then applying them to the longer project. But! This is just where I'm coming from. I think you should work on the one that would honestly excite you the most.

[first_seventhe]

This is... actually a really good point! One of the biggest things keeping me from finishing Beacon* is the fact that it's so huge and massive and almost overwhelming! I might feel better starting with a smaller worldbuilding project! XD

*Beacon is a huge, world-like RPG-based fiction story my brother and I "wrote" (i.e. outlined) a long time ago. I eventually plan to turn it into a webcomic, because I want to learn how to draw, and/or a written novel.

[redgoldenglory]

Hmmm, a webcomic sounds pretty interesting! I too will recommend keeping the creativity flowing to Beacon visually, even while you work on other projects :)

[shanaqui]

I vote the new thing!

[katmillia]

New thing so we can bitch to each other over our failure and gripes and other story concerns. xD And you can make a soundtrack, too!

But I also vote get yur little butt on drawing, cause I wanna see it!

[first_seventhe]

We should start up cockeyed_art again, methinks! Because I really need something kicking my ass into drawing!!

[katmillia]

I thought about it, but I'm still sort of anti-FF right now, so I don't think I would want to do much with it unless we expanded it for other stuff, too. :(

[first_seventhe]

I don't know what other games me, you, and Enkida might all share... but then again, we can always post reference pictures? I don't know, we could ask her.