Writing Interupted.

Working once again at getting all my ducks in a column (I think they look silly in rows) and getting back to writing. This is the home of my fiction but I also have a Random Pimpage Blog where I post up reviews of various things I find entertaining. But as it is still writing just not fiction I guess some mention of it should pop up over here as well. The main purpose of Random Pimpage is just to toot the horns of people that I feel are doing a kickass job. You'll never see a review over there of something I don't like - because why the hell would I pimp something I don't like. Plus I figured I'd finally listen to Ma and "If you can't say anything nice best to just shut the fuck up." (Direct quote I still laugh about that one to this day I love you Mom.) Plus People put a lot of hard work into creative endeavors who the hell am I to come along and shit on their dream. On the other hand I ain't blowing sunshine up anyone's ass either. I'm trying something new with Randomo Pimpage an experiment called 8 Questions. We'll see how that pans out.

NaNoWriMo

50K words.... nope
6K+ Words... yup
Lot of worthless crap that made it too hard to slog on.... Yup
Decent Kernel of a story that I will exhume from the crap and plant anew OH HELL YEAH!!

Bear of Avalon will go on, but trying to completely discovery write isn't working for me but plotting puts me to sleep so I need to find a happy medium. I need to at least build a frame and if something happens where the story breaks free of that frame learn to build an addition.

Story as I had it wandered all over the place, and that sucked hardcore. Too many different little arcs that confused each other.

I plan on working on Bear of Avalon along with a Zombie novel in 2010.

In the meantime I'm trying to stay in a writing habit by writing a little something every day at least a couple hundred words preferably part of something but if not it'll go in the vault for future projects. With BuyMeCrapmas, my youngest's Birthday, My Anniversary and New Years all hitting me in a weeks time later this month I need to just zone out and not try to stress myself out.

I'm thinking of setting a Zombie Story in space on a station orbiting a world that is being terraformed for colonization. It gives me a way to Limit the zombie population naturally without the story devolving into a countdown timer of when is everybody going to die.

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Catch ya during the race to 50K.

NaNoWriMo

Well it's approaching that time of year again NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month - 30 days to write a 50K word Novel. That's roughly 1667 words a day.

It starts November 1 stroke of midnight until December 1st Stroke of midnight or in other words the exact duration of the month of November.

I haven't completed it once since starting in 2004. But I try each year usually make it about a week and change in before things start blowing up in my face with either the surviving or the story and things just fall apart.

This year I'm likely going to be attempting a story about a Beserkers and Werebears (Thanks to Brand Gamblin http://www.callsforcthulhu.com/ - Author of the Tumbler Podcast Novel and the brain behind Calls for Cthulu - He Threw out a suggestion about Vampire Vikings over twitter when I said I hadn't thought of what I was going to do for NaNo - The idea evolved to Bererkers and Werebears)- couple different ideas are forming but not sure which route to go.

Check out NaNoWriMo at http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and my Author page at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/53331 Feel friend to add me to your buddy list if you attmept it this year.

Harass me PLEASE!!!!

Okay I'm making my wife take part in this too.

Bug me harass me ask me how many words I've completed today / This week.

Get my ass to establish a writing habit.

My current Goals - Daily at least 715 words Weekly at least 5000 words. It's not a uber cake goal but it's something attainable and I can always build up from there.

For now I'm including legitimate blog posts (my prior two calls for help and my random pimpage blog do not count) but in time it will be limited to fiction only. If I can hit 5000 plus by the weekend I get the weekend off if I don't I have to work the weekend until I can get to at least 5000.

Soon as I can accomplish this goal on a regular basis I up the ante and with NaNo WriMo around the corner it's gonna be a race to see if I can get to the point where I can do 1667 a day / 11669 a week which is a little shy of triple where I'm starting.

You can Harass me here in the comments or on twitter - I'm RAsplundJr on twitter

Settings

Trying to think of a list of Settings to add to my toolkit to help me expand my writing and for something to try when I'm having issues getting something on the page. If you can think of any to add please leave a comment below or email me at rasplundjr@gmail.com or you can hit me up on twitter I'm rasplundjr there.

Adrift at Sea
Airport
Amusement Park
Aquarium
Attic
Bar
Barn
Basement
Beach
Blackhole
Blacksmith
Brig
Bus
Bus Station
Cabin
Car
Car Dealership
Carnival
Castle
Cave
Caverns
Cell
Cemetery
Chemical Plant
Church
Circus
City
Club house
College
Comic Book store
Court
Crypt
Data Center/Server Room
Deli
Desert
Drug Cartel Camp
Drug Store
Electronics Store
Factory
Fair
Fairgrounds
Farm
Fat Camp
Field
Fish Market
Foreign Planet
Forrest
Garage
Gas / Refueling Station
Glacier
Golf Course
Grocery Store
Gym
Haberdashery
Herder's hut
Hold
Hole
Hole, "The"
Hospital
Hostel
Ice Floe
Iceberg
Inside a living creature
Inside a mindscape
Island
Jail
Jungle
Junk Yard
Kitchen
Lake
Launch Facility
Law Firm
Library
Lifeboat
Mall
Mansion
Mausoleum
Meat Locker
Meat Market
Military Base
Moon
Movie Rental Store
Movie Set
Movie Theater
Museum
National Park
Opera House
Orbit
Outback
Pirate Ship
Plane
Play House
Playground
Prison
Radio Station
Rain Forest
River
Rubber Plantation
Savannah
School
Semi
Sewer
Ship
Shipyard
Shoe Store
Silo
Space
Space Ship
Stable
Stadium
Star
Store
Summer Camp
Swamp
Temple
Test Facility
Tobacco Plantation
Town
Train
Train Station
Tundra
TV Set
Under water
Used Car Lot
Village
Volcano
Warehouse
West
Whole Foods Store
Yacht
Zoo




Edited 1:39 PM 9-30 Additional words added. From Myself and Nathan Lowell
Edited 2:15 PM 9-30 Additional words added. From Scott Roche
Edited 4:03 PM 9-30 Additional words added. From Myself

Genre List

Trying to think of a list of Genres to add to my toolkit to help me expand my writing and for something to try when I'm having issues getting something on the page. If you can think of any to add please leave a comment below or email me at rasplundjr@gmail.com or you can hit me up on twitter I'm rasplundjr there.

Some of these may not count as actual genres but they all serve the same purpose for me.

So far I have -
Action
Adventure
Beach Movie
Comedy
Current Events
CyberPunk
Drama
Erotica
Fantasy
Hard Sci-Fi
Historical
Horror
Mystery
Romance
Space
SteamPunk
Thriller
Urban Fantasy
YA