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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #120 on: November 17, 2009, 04:21:32 AM »
32365,

Woah, everyone else is blowing me away. Oh well, I knew these next few months would be very, very busy for me and I'm just happy that I've been able to keep a decent pace.
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #121 on: November 17, 2009, 04:55:56 AM »
I just threw the wrench in my works.
The villain went nuts... kidnapped a girl briefly... beat up another good guy... and is now attempting to smother another.
I think my story just went interesting. ;P

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #122 on: November 17, 2009, 06:25:38 AM »
Hunhhh? It just flowed, and no way was I going to stop.

I'm not finished, but I've writen my last chapter. Now I need to write the rest of the last third of the story and get all the bits and pieces to match up.


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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #123 on: November 17, 2009, 11:35:59 AM »
Two different segments of the flotilla have, unknown to each other, started a "Death Ride" against the pirate main base.

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #124 on: November 17, 2009, 01:46:02 PM »
38,008. I took a bit of a half day yesterday since I worked a longer than usual shift and I needed the break. Hopefully I can catch up today. I'd like to get as much done as I can, since next week is Thanksgiving week and it's going to be a madhouse at work...

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #125 on: November 18, 2009, 10:20:59 PM »
Just past the 37K mark last night, and realized I'd skipped an entire section as per my outline.  I'm planning to go back and fill in tonite.  Though the scenes may end up working better in a different order--who knows?
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #126 on: November 18, 2009, 10:33:00 PM »
40K and I'm trying to get the next 1,667 words cranked out... but I seem to have lost my momentum >.< I've got some longhand stuff I need to type up, but I don't seem to have the impetus to do that. :: Growls at self::

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #127 on: November 19, 2009, 01:15:50 AM »
Passed 50K and not yet done..... ???

An excerpt,

Sir, there's no sign whatsoever of commander MuKusic's  suit telemetry.
It dropped off the screen completely about three hours ago."  Reported
the communications officer.
Mike considered, it had been 12 hours since the action at the asteroid
base  Under commander McMasters was still unconscious in the medical
position onboard the sledgehammer.  And the Phoenix was still tumbling
slowly towards the asteroid base.  As far as my could tell the only
thing keeping the asteroid base from smashing the Phoenix into junk, was
the greed on the part of the Pirates of capturing a fully functional
warship.  Although the heavy construction and armored composition of the
Phoenix would make that harder than it might seem from the outside.
Finally go flotilla Commander came to a decision, "were about as fixed
as we are going to get, get everybody critical off the sledgehammer and
onboard the ships that are going in."  Said Mike.
The entire construct vibrated as booted feet ran from one ship to
another.
"What about the sledgehammer Sir?  Should we be using It also?"  The
question came from the tactical officer.
"We will leave a couple a crewmen onboard, but as a warship, the
sledgehammer makes a fine repair shop.  According to the logs the
offensive weaponry was stripped out, when the ship was converted to a
repair vessel.  I don't think adding another target to the mix will help
much."  Responded Over Commander Hartshorn.
"On Prester John, commander MuKusic used his ship against the ground
troops." Responded the tactical officer.
"Yes I know, but that was with strap on, small arms pods under the body.
I'm not sure what small arms would do for us pounding on an asteroid."
Said Mike.
"Bring out asteroid base map, red indicates known weapons positions,
yellow marks suspected positions.  Green points indicate destroyed
weapons far last pass, but don't trust that they could've fixed one."
Stated the tactical officer.
"That's make this pass fast, skip drive as close as we dare, inertial
field drive at maximum on the pass, and skip out as soon as you can, go
around and do It again."  Mike said over the commanders circuit.
Mike than continued, "all we have is speed, we're faster than that
carrier, and the base doesn't move at all, but both of those targets are
pretty tough, and if they hit us square were gone."
"All closed up, ready to detach."  Came the response from the operations
officer.
"Plainsman and Huron report all closed up and ready to detach."  The
report from the communications board was almost an echo.
"All right, let's do this."  Commanded Mike.


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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #128 on: November 19, 2009, 03:07:25 PM »
Hit a massive wall last week and spent the past five days doing extensive research. Kicked out 5k last night, hoping I can catch up before the weekend is over. Currently at 21,000. Decided to skip ahead and fill in the blanks later in order to keep myself movin.

Currently, my character just killed his wife on accident and went thru an OJ Simpson trial. Next up, flashbacks to a day when I use some revisionist history to portray fat Elvis Presley as a supervillain who was whacked out of his mind on a combination of chicken grease and heroin. It's a deadly combo. dundunduuuuun.

Do you think the Weather Underground Organization would be pissed if I did some revisionist history on them and made them sound like some super secret group bent on world domination instead of communism? The Weathermen just sounds so much like a saturday morning cartoon villain group.

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #129 on: November 20, 2009, 03:27:56 AM »
Well the first pass is done.

Now I need to go back and clean up the spillage :)

Regards,
Kevin

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #130 on: November 20, 2009, 04:27:53 PM »
1111 words last night; conincidence, but a nifty one. Nice to have my groove back to some extent; that would be a bad Friday/Saturday's writing, but it's good for a weeknight when I have to stop so that i will be awake for work the next day.

Also, it takes the total wordcount on this project over 490,000.
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #131 on: November 21, 2009, 03:14:51 AM »
Well the first pass is done.

Now I need to go back and clean up the spillage :)

Regards,
Kevin

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #132 on: November 21, 2009, 06:33:23 AM »
Thanks,

What made it move fast was having a good "Road Map" of what I wanted to tell as a story before the mmonth started. Basicly a list of chapter haedings and a few things that need to come out in that chapter. The hardest writing was for connecting chapters, and the easyest was the stuff I was intrested in...

excerpt,

Set up, Case is an AI but not too bright, think of a Collie Lab cross.

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"We'll yes, but I think you'd look better as a representative of the Conclave."  Came the computer's reply.
"I understand, but wearing a Conclave of Planets uniforms might confuse the local militia.  After all, I only belong to the Militia."  Came Keru's patient reply.
"If you say so. 

By the way, boss, what's a bumper?"  Asked the computer.
"In one application Case?  I can think of four or five things that are called bumpers."  Responded Keru.
The computer display wavered and changed, it now showed several rectangles with slogans imprinted on them.
"It's for these, they are called bumper stickers, we can put them on our bumper!  If we have a bumper."  Came the bright reply of the computer.
"I'm afraid we don't have a bumper Case."  Said Keru.
Keru thought furiously, if I'm not careful.  I'll have a ship covered with stickers.

"Boss?  How you make a bumper?"  Asked Case.


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Kevin
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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #133 on: November 21, 2009, 07:11:19 PM »
48K words: the end is in sight!

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Re: NaNoWriMo anyone?
« Reply #134 on: November 24, 2009, 12:59:32 PM »
44500 here; getting close to the quota but not anywhere near the end of the story.  Still about two-thirds to go...
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