NaNoWriMo!

HamelinHamelin
edited November 2006 in Jeff's Typewriter Emporium
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I am totally trying to do it this year. But I prolly should at least think of something to start writing about on the first... otherwise those 50k words are gonna go by mighty slowly.

So folks, help me out! It's time for a pre-November brainstorm. Toss out ideas, big ones, small ones, weird ones, whatever!

Comments

  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited October 2006
    I vote for a science-fiction theme! Or better yet. An all out battle between pirates, cowboys, aliens, and robots! It should take place in space. Or are you looking for a more realistic fiction theme??
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited October 2006
    Right now, I'll take any idea anyone has.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited October 2006
    Joe Everybody was a man in his late twenties working at Wendy's and spending his spare time sitting on the side walk listening to his boom box. He wasn't very bright. But not even a top scientist could have foreseen... the visit from THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE!

    (Adapted from a skit I made in English class in March of '05. The script lives on in an old Inksandwich thread entitled 'English Project'.)
  • stefstef
    edited October 2006
    Plot: Someone left some lo-cal meringue cookies in the grad students' office since the laboratory picnic. Naturally, meringue tastes pretty nasty quickly. The box remains untouched after all of the chips and other snackies have been devoured. Harried grad student notices that meringue cookies seemto have crept onto said student's desk,where they lay there staring. Why are those goddamned cookies here on my desk? WHY? WHYYY????

    I will use your published novel to gingerly nudge the cookies onto someone else's desk.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited October 2006
    Well I was gonna suggest something fairly lame about SCIENCE! and magic. But Stef's idea is so much better. It features intrigue, suspence, romance, engineering!
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited October 2006
    Where's the romance in that plot?
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited October 2006
    It's all over the place. You'll see when you're older.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited October 2006
    I've got it... Crab People.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2006
    I am greedily keeping all my ideas to myself just in case I get around to actually trying to use them in my own writing. Just think about stuff. A good writer could probably write about forks and knives or something like that and make it interesting. Turn some short fairy tale into a twisted epic or something.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited October 2006
    Amoeba Boy wrote: »
    It's all over the place. You'll see when you're older.

    Um....right.

    Hamelin, give the main character an awesome name that is so awesome it makes everyone go "dude, that name is totally awesome!" Don't use bob, Joe, or Matt. Use an awesome name like Kite. Or Sky. Or..or...Higatchie. Either that, or copy an exotic name from a celebrity couple.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2006
    I happen to like the name Matt. I may be a bit biased though.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited October 2006
    John Smith dies and goes to heaven, only to discover its exactly the same as on earth.

    I did a short story on it, and it tuned out pretty good.
  • godgod
    edited October 2006
    Take some short story from fifty or more years ago, and just continue upon it, making some characters robots, some get zombified, and try to turn it into a WWII or Cold War conspiracy-thing. I've found Langston Hughes works well for this.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited October 2006
    deku12345 wrote: »
    John Smith dies and goes to heaven, only to discover its exactly the same as on earth.

    I did a short story on it, and it tuned out pretty good.
    Maybe he can discover that he actually died years ago and just never noticed.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited October 2006
    Afterlife Egyption conspiracy! Egytians have been a popular topic lately.

    (Just spitting out ideas here.)
  • Melted JhonnycakeMelted Jhonnycake
    edited October 2006
    I like god's idea.

    I wanna try that with Doctor Suess.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited October 2006
    Tomorrow, it begins.

    I'm a little nervous, actually.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited October 2006
    It's okay! You have us to support you! I guess we're your "people"...o_O
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited October 2006
    I believe the proper terminology would be "peeps".
  • Melted JhonnycakeMelted Jhonnycake
    edited November 2006
    Peeps, melted or otherwise.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited November 2006
    Here's a link that will surely inspire anyone to greatness.

    http://solar.physics.montana.edu/home/www/reu/2005/jretten/analogies.html
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited November 2006
    Oh man, I laughed and laughed.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited November 2006
    "They were strangers, like two hummingbirds who also hadn't met yet."
  • mariomario
    edited November 2006
    I remember being read this list in a high school English class. And just like then, I can't help but point out that these analogies are freakin' awesome! They really do a great job at conveying humor and painting a vivid picture of the scene in mind. The teacher was trying to show them as examples of how not to write. But he was clearly crazy.

    Although "The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't" is an obvious ripoff of one of the best analogies ever, from the pages of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited November 2006
    He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical
    lame duck, either, but a
    real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from
    stepping on a land mine or
    something.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited November 2006
    The last one was the best. I also loved "her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night."
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited November 2006
    MMMM...BREASTS

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