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Oct 21, 2011 09:17PM
The story I'll write for NaNoWriMo is in Sci-fi Horror OR Fantasy Horror genre. It'll be on different planet. I'm still figuring out what'll be the horror part and mystery part. It'll still have some romantic somehow. It's still inside my head so I'll need to write it on the outline :) I have a lot of projects too. But I figure, NaNoWriMo might help me improve my word count on a daily basis. My goal's 2k word a day. It'll be tough but I think I can do it :)
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I write in blocks, 10,000 words in a day and then a day or two off. My problem is how much editing I have on my plate right now (and writing is so much more fun. I'm afraid if I do NaNo I won't edit.) Sounds like you'll be blending the genres with yours - hope you have fun with it.
Yeah, I have December to edit my novel if I finished it. If I write 2k really quick on a day then I might edit the same day...until then, I'll see how it goes this November :) It's my first time doing it as well.
hehe I'm gonna show my ignorence here.. but what exactly is it with thanksgiving?? we don't celebrate it here.. and I keep getting mixed idea's about what it is.. some times it's like Australia day when capt cook 'claimed' australia (there's a whole debate about that which I won't go into..) Sometimes i think it's about getting the family together?? (sounds weird to me) and then other times it's some sort of quasi religious holiday.?? but I can never quite work out.. and the internet just confuses the issue..
All I remember when I was a kid...thanksgiving started when Englishmen and Indian first time eat dinner together. I don't know the whole history to it...history's my poor subject LOL every year families get together and say their thanks before eat. For me, it's just a day where I get to eat dinner with my family. I'm no religious guy :) hope that sorta answer your qq heh :D
hehehe thanks Zach.. Still a bit confuzzled by it but even wikipedia get's vague about it.. O_o All I know is we don't celebrate it here.. hehe (thank god, couldn't stand my mother that many times in a year!)
~rolls eyes~ then there is easter, christmas, her b'day, my b'day, mothers day, my dad's b'day.... of which i try to attend NONE!!!.. (my dad understands hehehe) Fortunately they live in another state..
Thanksgiving--it morphed into a religious holiday--it is in memory of the supposed first dinner between the pilgrims (English who left England because of religious persecution--you would know them perhaps by the name Puritans--pretty uptight dudes--dressed in black, or brown and white --very conservative amish sects take after them. Anyway if history is to be believed the indians and pilgrims stopped killing one another long enough to eat a meal--at which there might have been wild turkey--pretty sure there wasn't cranberry sauce--kinda think ocean spray came up with that one=:)Anyway, around my house it's an excuse to eat too much, drink too much, watch football and pass out--yep--a fund day all around!!
hahaha eat to much, drink to much watch cricket and pass out... would be christmas/boxing day in australia..
Now try to explain Thanksgiving in Canada (the second Monday in October) which doesn't come with Pilgrims or obligatory football. Personally I consider it a harvest festival blended with American culture leaking across the border. It's much more low key and I don't ever remember making hand-print turkeys in grade school.
Thanksgiving for me is a day to eat yummy Turkey, watch football, and look at sales ads for shopping the next day. It is my favorite holiday cause I love fall.Byron, isn't your day Jan 25? That's more like our 4th of July. Thanksgiving is just a day to be Thankful. There is a funny Thanksgiving day scene in an adult MM book. One of the brothers recently came out so he was thankful for lube and other things. Funny!
Summer suggested a Thanksgiving YA story for our next challenge - but maybe for our overseas writers we would make it any holiday that's not Christmas, in the spirit of inclusiveness. (Not everyone knowing what a handprint turkey even is, ie. an elementary school art project where kids trace around their hands and then use the shape to color in a turkey with spread tail; one of the many weird and ubiquitous Thanksgiving traditions that have developed over the years.)
Scylar, my son is nine. It's his first year playing football. At first he was afraid to hit the smaller boys. He is almost 5 foot already and was afraid to hurt anyone. Now he is blocking and tackling with the best of them. He plays the entire game and really loves it. He isn't the QB but the center.
Summer wrote: "Scylar, my son is nine. It's his first year playing football. At first he was afraid to hit the smaller boys. He is almost 5 foot already and was afraid to hurt anyone. Now he is blocking and tackl..."Bless his gentle heart--that's what we want, eh? A gentle giant so to speak--someone who already looks and sees that his height and size could maybe hurt another--sounds like you are a great Mom Summer if he is thinking in that way already.
Can I do a modified short story--I am much more of a playwright--but I like the stretch it causes me to write the prose narrative between the dialogue--so is it okay if it is more dialogue focused?? And I agree--a non-specific holiday--more generic one might suit--or may just a theme?? We could make the next one all about thankfulness--that could encompass both thanksgiving and christmas and we could have more time to write if we were inclined to write. Just a thought...
Summer wrote: "Thanksgiving for me is a day to eat yummy Turkey, watch football, and look at sales ads for shopping the next day."Thanksgiving, the day we eat a lot in preparation for black Friday where insane ppl get up at insane hours to go shopping! XD
Byron wrote: "~rolls eyes~ then there is easter, christmas, her b'day, my b'day, mothers day, my dad's b'day.... of which i try to attend NONE!!!.. (my dad understands hehehe) Fortunately they live in another st..."
hehe, Thanksgiving OR x-mas usually is the only time I am able to visit my mom. She lives in California and I live in Arizona. My dad lives in Maryland. I'm pretty good with holidays stuff over here LOL
hehe, Thanksgiving OR x-mas usually is the only time I am able to visit my mom. She lives in California and I live in Arizona. My dad lives in Maryland. I'm pretty good with holidays stuff over here LOL
Zach,Next time you are in Maryland let me know--Susan65 and i live here--only about 40 minutes from each other--we'll show you a good time while you are here!!
Patricia wrote: "Summer wrote: "Thanksgiving for me is a day to eat yummy Turkey, watch football, and look at sales ads for shopping the next day."Thanksgiving, the day we eat a lot in preparation for black Frida..."
OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once was enough!
Sammy2006 wrote:"OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once was enough! "I've never even done it once. I like sleeping too much to be bothered with getting up - even for a sale. lol
Patricia wrote: "Sammy2006 wrote:"OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once was enough! "I've never even done it once. I li..."
Never done it. I celebrate Buy-Nothing Day (easier because I've almost always had to work that day anyway.)
Sammy2006 wrote: "Zach,
Next time you are in Maryland let me know--Susan65 and i live here--only about 40 minutes from each other--we'll show you a good time while you are here!!"
Hehe, I used to live in Maryland from 2007 to last year just moved to Arizona :D
Next time you are in Maryland let me know--Susan65 and i live here--only about 40 minutes from each other--we'll show you a good time while you are here!!"
Hehe, I used to live in Maryland from 2007 to last year just moved to Arizona :D
Kaje wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Sammy2006 wrote:"OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once was enough! "I've never even d..."
Let me tell you all--it is an eye-opening experience--I was there for an ipod--I wanted it yes--but I had no IDEA how much other people had made this kind of thing a professional sport--when the doors open people began to sprint--I hung on to hubby for dear life--he turned to me and muttered something about if we get separated, remember I love you and am never doing this again in our lifetime--if we have another lifetime left after this. I lost track of him then for about 15 minutes--horror mounting as I passed piles of writhing bodies grasping for anything from the latest cd's to ear wax cleaning systems. It was nightmare of the living dead with electronic components thrown in for effect.
After 20 minutes I emerged out of the sea of endless bodies to stand victorious in front of the hubby with??--that's right--the wrong damn ipod--he looked at me, I looked at him--he took it, tossed it on a passing cart that was filled with both electronics and various people handing onto the sales clerk pushing the cart and took my hand. As we walkied out of the store at 4:25am, my husband said--pretty sure Amazon has it on line--we'll order it later today--after several cups of coffee, some tranquilizers and the best make up sex you have ever given me--deal? I smiled and put a thumb up and said--sounds good to me--lead the way.
Now while I may have taken just a wee bit of poetic license in the retelling--the story is factual--and yes--if I was to take the blissed out expression on his face a few fours later as proof, he did get the best make-up sex ever=:)
Sammy2006 wrote: "Kaje wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Sammy2006 wrote:"OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once was enough! "I've..."
Love it! I think you can count that as a creative writing effort for the group too, because wow, I can just see it (well, except not picturing the sex part because this is YA and GLBT.) Your husband loves you just to go in the first place - mine would sooner eat ground glass than consider such a thing.
Black Friday is insane! I usually stay home and go out later in the afternoon. I can't do the extra early hours, I like to sleep in.Thank you Sammy, my son is a great kid. People always stop me to tell me how sweet he is. He's the only boy! We are really close.
Kaje wrote: "Sammy2006 wrote: "Kaje wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Sammy2006 wrote:"OMG--I did this once--got up at 4am--it's true--to stand in line at a Best Buy for an ipod for my son--crazy--and might I add once w..."After that one incident-he groans when he even sees a black friday ad!
Sammy2006 wrote: "After that one incident-he groans when he even sees a black friday ad! "LMAO! My hubby groans too because he worked in retail and was on the working side of black Friday.
Summer wrote: "Scylar, my son is nine. It's his first year playing football. At first he was afraid to hit the smaller boys. He is almost 5 foot already and was afraid to hurt anyone. Now he is blocking and tackl..."Hey, Summer. He sounds so cool being afraid to hurt the smaller boys. 5 ft at nine, Jeeze. I hope he stays in football. By the time he reaches high school, he will be accepting to any teammates who happen to be gay since he has such an accepting mom. Those gay boys will be ever so much more comfortable with themselves for having teammates like your son to accept them. It's all about the upbringing by wonderful moms like you. Thank you. Hey did you read Out Of The Pocket? Very good book! All about a quarterback who is outed during his senior year, a winning year at that.
Scylar, a mom can only hope. My best friend laughed at me when my son said he wanted to be just like him. I was hoping he meant being gay, but only time will tell. Lol! Have not gotten to Out Of The Pocket yet, but I will!
Summer wrote: "Scylar, a mom can only hope. My best friend laughed at me when my son said he wanted to be just like him. I was hoping he meant being gay, but only time will tell. Lol! Have not gotten to Out Of Th..."OMG I so want to show that comment to my mum... Her comment to me for the first ten years was "why would ANY mother want her child to be gay!!!" There was a whole lot more before and after that comment from both sides but still... hehehe
Byron, I'm proud of you! Love is forever and no exceptions. I hope you tell her! I would be proud to call you my son, even if your older than me, lol!
hehe thanks Summer :p I keep telling people I'm only 2 and 1/2... a lot of growing up to do yet.. (that and I can get away with murder if I was 2 and 1/2 - can't even get put in reformatory at that age..)I've told my mum for 30 years now that if she really wanted to get down to the brass tacks of life I'm someone she could be proud of, if she'd bother to spend any time not judging me.. hehe Oh well, I love me, and my friends do too..
Byron wrote: "hehe thanks Summer :p I keep telling people I'm only 2 and 1/2... a lot of growing up to do yet.. (that and I can get away with murder if I was 2 and 1/2 - can't even get put in reformatory at tha..."And we love you, too, B.
Byron wrote: "I've told my mum for 30 years now that if she really wanted to get down to the brass tacks of life I'm someone she could be proud of, if she'd bother to spend any time not judging me.. hehe Oh well, I love me, and my friends do too....."
Absolutely, and lots of moms in this bunch.
Summer wrote: "Scylar, a mom can only hope. My best friend laughed at me when my son said he wanted to be just like him. I was hoping he meant being gay, but only time will tell. Lol! Have not gotten to Out Of Th..."Hey, Summer, so your bf is gay, and your son said he wants to be just like him? Boy that friend of yours must be feeling pretty good now. But your son doesnt' have to be gay to be just like your friend, you know. I am proud of your friend to have evoked such sentiment from the little guy.
My son doesn't have to be just like my best friend, he can just be himself. I think Darrin makes my son think. Darrin is 41 and really intelligent. He makes my son think outside the box. Darrin was a Marine as well and that's what my son wants to do with his life. I love that he looks up to Darrin, heck I do too. Darrin is a man of worth and my husband and I are proud our son loves him.Byron, your mom is missing out! Two and a half sounds like a fine age to be!
Byron--such a sweet, funny man--I'll be your honorary mom--it would be a privilege!
