More on nano-writing
Nov. 22nd, 2009 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaso, I'm currently slightly behind here... Although my nano stats do indicate that I had done really well briefly before deleting most of my epic tome, having accidentally put in 333340 rather than 33340 into the word count box. Oooops.
I have slight issues with people reading this.
No problems with my previous attempts (if links don't work let me know).
Pre-nano Childrens' story: Eddie The Magician
Nano 2008 attempt part 1 part 2.
I just seem to have slight issues with this one.
Part of my problem is that I don't think it's all that good yet. That shouldn't worry me too much The Nano 2008 has a characters with motivations that make no sense at all, and Eddie is a bit of a Mary Sue (any character called any variant of either of my middle names can be assumed to be a Mary Sue). My writing is pretty crummy. That's something I will work on. Right now I'm most concerned with story telling.
Still I do have problems with this one. There is a small problem that I'm a little mixed up with the setting. It's now based very strongly on Croatia circa 1991. The place names have been changed because history was a little too slow moving for my story. I'm getting a bit mixed up with which culture and which nationality is which, and also who my villain is. This isn't a big deal though. I will need to go through this and rearrange the action so that key points happen in the most appropriate place location. The back story is actually fairly flexible.
Part of it might be the themes. So far I've covered civil war, murder, attempted rape, self-defence killing, ethnic conflict and racism, slavery, human trafficking and sexual slavery and torture. This is generally a much darker set of subjects than my happy outgoing self usually covers.
My other issue is related to the above. I'm not that well educated in any of these matters. Many of my friends are. I'm a little embarrassed to be showing my naivety. Does anyone happen to know a lot about Serbian Krajina?
I have slight issues with people reading this.
No problems with my previous attempts (if links don't work let me know).
Pre-nano Childrens' story: Eddie The Magician
Nano 2008 attempt part 1 part 2.
I just seem to have slight issues with this one.
Part of my problem is that I don't think it's all that good yet. That shouldn't worry me too much The Nano 2008 has a characters with motivations that make no sense at all, and Eddie is a bit of a Mary Sue (any character called any variant of either of my middle names can be assumed to be a Mary Sue). My writing is pretty crummy. That's something I will work on. Right now I'm most concerned with story telling.
Still I do have problems with this one. There is a small problem that I'm a little mixed up with the setting. It's now based very strongly on Croatia circa 1991. The place names have been changed because history was a little too slow moving for my story. I'm getting a bit mixed up with which culture and which nationality is which, and also who my villain is. This isn't a big deal though. I will need to go through this and rearrange the action so that key points happen in the most appropriate place location. The back story is actually fairly flexible.
Part of it might be the themes. So far I've covered civil war, murder, attempted rape, self-defence killing, ethnic conflict and racism, slavery, human trafficking and sexual slavery and torture. This is generally a much darker set of subjects than my happy outgoing self usually covers.
My other issue is related to the above. I'm not that well educated in any of these matters. Many of my friends are. I'm a little embarrassed to be showing my naivety. Does anyone happen to know a lot about Serbian Krajina?
