Awesome! Yes, keep writing. I am trying to write and bank a few extra days' worth of writing, since I have a couple busy times later this month. Since I have a 5 day Hong Kong business trip and my parents visiting for 10 days, I essentially have about half a month where I may not have any time to write. But I'm sticking with it. So you can easily still make it, we're only a few days in.
I'm still definitely out for this year's festivities, but I plan on doing this next year for sure. I would very much like to write a modern prose translation/adaptation of Grettis Saga, a medieval Icelandic saga concerning the exploits of the outlaw Grettir. It's pretty sweet compared with other sagas because of both it's main character (an outlaw cursed to live on the fringes of society in solitude) and the extreme amount of supernatural stuff that happens (most awesomely, he fights a draugr, the Norse equivalent of a zombie). And the medieval style of extremely limited internal thought processes leaves a lot of gaps I can hopefully fill in in very interesting ways. I was also thinking of retaining ALL of the dialogue and just characterizing it in fun ways with gestures, actions, and thoughts.
So yeah. If I had more time I would do that this year, but since I have to write 3 papers in the next 6 weeks, I figure I'll wait til next time.
Grr I already fell behind, I'm at 12,750 words when I should be at 15,000. This is made worse by a friend of mine who went crazy over the weekend and is currently sitting at 27,000. I have my business trip this week too, and that'll hurt my writing time a lot.
I do. I can blow through a long dialogue in a matter of minutes, but when I have some action packed sequence it seems to take absolutely forever to write.
I blow through dialogue too, except it doesn't add up to as many words as normal paragrpahs would in the end. I even write my exposition as dialogue, just because it flows easier to type. If I ever edit, I'll have to condense it down and remove it from dialogue.
Besides, it's easier to read dialogue than Lord of the Rings.
Ohh I failed. I blame it on the fact that I spent over two weeks traveling for work or with my parents. But I am over 25k words, so I've got enough momentum to finish it.
I have considered trying to write stuff, but have no real ambition to actually start anything. I'm fairly certain anything I tried to write would be terrible.
Actually, your wrong Az. The point isn't to share it with anyone. The point is to write 50,000 words and feel a sense of accomplishment. You can share it with the world, or you can magnetize your hard drive so the world is never exposed to the abomination you wrote. Totally your choice.
Ugh. Every year I promise myself that I'll work on this and then it totally slips my mind. Maybe I won't commit this year and if I find the time, well hey I'll do what I can.
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So yeah. If I had more time I would do that this year, but since I have to write 3 papers in the next 6 weeks, I figure I'll wait til next time.
Besides, it's easier to read dialogue than Lord of the Rings.
Sigh. Maybe next year.
Next year for sure!
I don't think I'll participate either. I've been busy with other stuff.
I went to bed instead of starting last night, bucking my Hallowe'en tradition. Much work ahead of me tonight. Now to find an idea, some inspiration