NaNoWriMo 2005 - Join, write, be a novelist!

[CrimsonMaiden]

Does anyone know either how to convert the character chart to a different kind of file or how I can actually use the one that's a pdf without having to write it all out on paper? Or is that what everyone else is doing?


(I just have the reader, I don't have the program to actually edit pdfs.)

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Here you go, Crim!

 

[MissBri]

 

[ffreak]

You have noooo idea...

I've read your thread - writing is a good way to exorsize the demons of life. Vengence is best served out with acid clarity, cutting words, and biting accusations of unkept promises. Hang 'em out to dry, but not before you draw blood.

Or you could turn all sweetness and use your pictures as a plot chart of self-exploration and mass seduction.

 

[entitled]

I've read your thread - writing is a good way to exorsize the demons of life. Vengence is best served out with acid clarity, cutting words, and biting accusations of unkept promises. Hang 'em out to dry, but not before you draw blood.

Or you could turn all sweetness and use your pictures as a plot chart of self-exploration and mass seduction.

Or a little of both. It's fairly easy to have two faces - the 'writer's face' looking inward at yourself, and the 'public face' that people tend to associate you with.

Still need a photographer to work on that second face, though.

 

[Belegon]

Apparently I've truly gone insane...

 

[entitled]

Apparently I've truly gone insane...

Welcome to the club.

 

[arienette]

Welcome to the club.

Coffee is to your right.

 

[entitled]

Coffee is to your right.

Bathrooms are to the left.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Here you go, Crim!

Here's a free PDF editor.

You ladies are wonderful, thanks!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

7 days to NaNo! One week, people!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

6 days to NaNo!

I'm warming up for one month of non-stop writing by creating my technical essay this week. I feel like I'm on fire! Oh, I've missed writing.

 

[English Lady]

NaNo,NaNo,NaNo!!!!

Woohoo

I'm ready and raring to go *vroom vroom*

 

[Alex756]

I'm taking my daughter out for trick or treating and then planning on staying up late, I'm writing horror, I don't think writing in broad daylight will work well.

But I bought alot of caffinated soda, and I'll have most of her hallowen candy (she's 1 1/2, she cant have most candy still ) So the diet will be shot to you know what, but everyone gains around the holidays, right?

~Alex

 

[MissBri]

 

[cloudy]

I don't have my outline completely done, but I've got it mostly planned out - the big stuff, anyway.

Ready to put the pedal to the metal!

 

[chris 44]

I don't have my outline completely done, but I've got it mostly planned out - the big stuff, anyway.

Ready to put the pedal to the metal!

Me too, but I just can't plan it all. It feels too stifling and I can't write that way. So what's going to happen is that I'll reach 25k words in 10/12 days and promptly start treading water, walking through treacle or some such analogy.

I've finally decided which story to use, 'Wrong place, wrong time,' a nasty crime thriller set in the nearby city of Bradford when an Eastern European criminal gang move in to take over the sex trade in the city.

Been using Svenska's character charts to work through my MC's, quite useful so thanks Svenska.

Now all I need is an ending. Oh, and the Yorkshire Art Circus have rearranged a workshop I'm booked in for to Nov 28th/29th
Aaaargh these people have no sense of timing.
Chris

 

[Alex756]

I have done the oddest I think character thing *giggle*

I've been casting it

For my main characters I've been IMDBing and figureing out who should play what role, and then taking a pic, popping it on a word doc where I can keep track of all the important things about that particular character. Standard sheets seemed very irrelevant to how I write. I already answered most background on my main character through the first 2 shorts on him *shrug* so I figure I can have some fun and cast the parts

I am going to feel bad though, the one person I think will definately die I have cast as a favorite actor.

~Alex

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Been using Svenska's character charts to work through my MC's, quite useful so thanks Svenska.

You're welcome. Those charts made up for 30% of my story last year. The other 70% was the synopsis. It was great having something ti back me up when I was loosing inspiration. I could just look at my papers and say "right, I'm supposed to write the Gym Scene today".

I still have no idea for a title, though. Maybe it will come to me mid-through.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Oh, and -

5 days to NaNo!!!

 

[sweetnpetite]

Here you go, Crim!

That chart rocks. I saved it and I can type right into it. Or I could print it out and write all over it (had I ink)

Thanks a bunch.

 

[ffreak]

I have done the oddest I think character thing *giggle*

I've been casting it

For my main characters I've been IMDBing and figureing out who should play what role, and then taking a pic, popping it on a word doc where I can keep track of all the important things about that particular character. Standard sheets seemed very irrelevant to how I write. I already answered most background on my main character through the first 2 shorts on him *shrug* so I figure I can have some fun and cast the parts

I am going to feel bad though, the one person I think will definately die I have cast as a favorite actor.

~Alex

That is a great way to set your characters in your mind. I do it too. Picking a known celebrity helps cement their image and gets past dreaming-up the physical description. It's still good to use the character chart to add their quirks and goals and history for the story.

Don't feel bad - a favorite actor is ideal for the death scene - you can imagine how they would play it.

 

[arienette]

Oh, and -

5 days to NaNo!!!

Oh my, I'm freaking out.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

That chart rocks. I saved it and I can type right into it. Or I could print it out and write all over it (had I ink)

Thanks a bunch.

You're welcome. I can't take credit for creating it, though, I just found it, edited it, and shared it because I think it works so well in preparation for NaNo.

 

[fieryjen]

Oh my, I'm freaking out.

I know the feeling...