15K down, 35K to go.
I’m about to start playing really dirty with this writing game. I’ve had a few days off and in that time, I started to think about some different stories, (the usual: spaceships, pirates, monsters, minor prophets of the old testament.) Of course, it’s too late to start over and write one of these other ideas, isn’t it?
Well, not if you cheat. It seems that, in a library setting, you can have a character pick up any book you can imagine, and if you describe what they’re reading, well, before you know it, you’re writing that scifi action adventure you’ve been thinking about, or that tortured monster with a human soul story, or that one where the minor prophet teleports through time to convince modern-day scholars that he was really a major prophet. Okay, I made that last one up just now, but it’s probably the best idea.
So, there’s still a chance I could make 50K in 17 days, but this thing is going to be all over the place.
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Cheating? Nah, I don’t think that’s cheating. I think it is very possible to have multiple seemingly unrelated stories joined together loosely. I practice that very art each time I open my mouth at work (or at home, for that matter).
Good luck and fare ye well in your quest for the 50,000 words. Perhaps I’ll write a song about your quest. It’s been a while since I produced the Macdonk song and laser eyes.
Thanks for the kind words. I posted in the nanowrimo forums about how much you keep bugging me about this thing and how much it’s helped me progress.
I doubt I deserve a song, but perhaps in the near future, a 50,000 word choose-your-own-adventure could be dedicated to me. Or my cat.