forum NaNoWriMo Problems

Started November 05, 2018 by @Moxie group

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ending first is so good!! I wish I had written my ending first

yeah but now the beginning just pales in comparison to the ANGST i put in the end like dang wth was i doin that day?? who hurt me dang

My two mains fall in love but don’t end up together in the end. I already wrote it out in my first very rough draft / outline.

I mean
Mine is a tragedy
So it's starting with fun Wonderland nonsense
But uhh
It's sad

I’m down. Do it.

ending first is so good!! I wish I had written my ending first

yeah but now the beginning just pales in comparison to the ANGST i put in the end like dang wth was i doin that day?? who hurt me dang

lolol I feel that. the first 50% of mine is like action adventure fighting and crap…and the last 50% of that is action adventure fighting but like with a bucket of angst

yeah but now the beginning just pales in comparison to the ANGST i put in the end like dang wth was i doin that day?? who hurt me dang

Idk, if this helps at all, but I think that's just kinda how it is with a lot of books. Like, look at the Harry Potter books for instance. The first book is sunshine and rainbows compared to the last one, but that doesn't mean it's bad or not interesting in comparison to the rest of the series. It's less dark, but still great start.

I don't know if you're planning on writing a series or not, but I would say the same about a lot of standalone books as well (The Fault In Our Stars is another example that comes to mind).

Nanowrimo problems: Can't bring yourself to write after missing a week and a cringe-worthy prologue sobs

^^^ current mood

Can someone help? I'm really good at prologues and describing a scene with beautiful figurative language and imagery, yada yada, blah blah blah- but I have no idea how to interrupt it with dialogue. I just… I can't make it flow smoothly, because you open it up with this amazing picture and then you just blast in with characters talking. I have no idea how to transition so that the talking comes naturally, help.

So say you are describing something. Insert a little bit about how a charcter is reacting to the scenery, then use that to either open up dialogue about the scenery that transitions to other stuff, OR transition the character’s (and thereby, also the reader’s) attention closer and closer to the dialogue you want to put in.

Example:

The trees were beautiful. A loved how, even though the tree was sleeping, it still gave one last hurrah before it shut down for the winter. A looked over to B, who was also admiring the trees, seemingly lost in thought.
“What are you thinking about?” A questioned.
B shrugged, “I’m not entirely sure, to be perfectly honest. I don’t really know if I want to be thinking at all. At least, not right now.”

Ok… thank you, I'll try!

Ok… thank you, I'll try!

I hope it helps you out!

I just spent like 10 minutes watching videos on youtube about bell towers for a scene that I ended up not writing.

In other news, I feel like I'm going to lose my mind if I hear the words "bell tower." Bell tower doesn't even sound like a real word anymore but at least I finished the chapter?

When you're halfway through NaNoWriMo, you haven't even finished 2 chapters, and you're going to camp today.

I finally got to the one scene that I really do not want to write. It's unfortunately necessary to the story though and I've been sitting at my laptop for like an hour and have only written one sentence. I really just want to get it over with and move on but I can't bring myself to get excited enough to actually write anything.

Anyone got any advice?

Don’t think just write. It’s okay if you ramble; you can clean it up later.

what i did was I wrote an outline of the basic events of the book so that when I get bored with one chapter I can instantly jump to another that I'm excited about. it keeps me and the word count moving along. (i'm still almost 10k words behind but ya know…)

Don’t think just write. It’s okay if you ramble; you can clean it up later.

That's pretty much what I ended up doing. I also just described way too much stuff to postpone writing the one scene that I didn't want to write.

what i did was I wrote an outline of the basic events of the book so that when I get bored with one chapter I can instantly jump to another that I'm excited about

I made an outline for each chapter and I thought about skipping ahead to the next but I just kinda wanted to get it over with.

In any case, I've finished the chapter but I'll definitely be keeping that advice in mind for future reference.

I've been having a lot of issues with my ADD lately so focusing on writing has been terrible so I dropped out. Yay.

yeah

same for me but (probably) without ADD.

My OCD has been scary lately so now I'm 5,568 words behind ;A;

I abandoned my main project and man now trying to rapidly up my word count with miscellaneous crap I think about

My OCD has been scary lately so now I'm 5,568 words behind ;A;

gurl i'm literally at 20k words i'm never going to finish and sinking in a filthy pit of despair

My OCD has been scary lately so now I'm 5,568 words behind ;A;

gurl i'm literally at 20k words i'm never going to finish and sinking in a filthy pit of despair

oof that sucks my goal was 20k so ://///////////////// i stopped writing half-way (im doing ywp because im a smol bean)

I didn’t win lol