Scribblers' Haven discussion

Here I'll be posting everything from bits and pieces of my novel (mainly character and setting info, little scenes I'm toying with or want to include, and the like), poems, inspiring photography, philosophy debates with myself, and other odds and ends.

Feel free to give feedback and comments; they're what I live for!)

Thanks!! I put a lot of thought into it to make it as cool as everyone else's. :)

Well, I think I was the one that started the trend of ridiculously long topic titles, was I not?

Look what I've done....

Well, it was hard for me to find one broad name that fit...

Well thank you! I plan to post actual things to this pretty soon. :)

I'm excited to read them.

Alright, so I just signed up for the National Novel Writing Month, aka, NaNoWriMo. I'm quite excited, apart from the fact that I'm also scared to death ^^ Basically in November you write a fictional novel that has to be finished by the end of the month, and to 'win' (get the completion certificate) it has to be at least 50k words.

Luckily I've got until November to come up with an idea, because that's the only snag in my plan so far. I've got a few ideas, but I feel like I need more because the two I have seem like they won't get very far.

Any advice, comments, thoughts, etc? (I can use all the feedback I can get.)

Work hard and you'll win. That's all that I can say. I did it my first year (last year) but it took a lot of time and effort. it's really fun though.

Oh good :) I'm trying to get a little team together to do it; so far it's just me and my friend doing it that I know; Allex might be doing it if I can convince her.

I don't know if I'm going to do it or not this year. I'm getting a job this year as well, so I'll be pretty busy. I'm thinking that if my friend does it then I will too.

Well, no, I can't drive yet but my parents would drive me in until I had my license. As to what the job is, I don't know. I think I'll look into a local coffee shop, and put my application everywhere to see what kind of response I get.

Okay. I'm just looking for a job to get me some money for University. I don't care if I like it or not. If I was to enjoy it it wouldn't be called work, it would be called super happy fun time.

I don't even think about trips. I've heard too much bad stuff about Uni debt to be able to think about anything but University money.

yeah, this is the one thing that I can't procrastinate about, which sucks.

That's correct.

thank you.

Alexis wrote: "Laurel wrote: "Alright, so I just signed up for the National Novel Writing Month, aka, NaNoWriMo. I'm quite excited, apart from the fact that I'm also scared to death ^^ Basically in November you w..."

I'm not sure; I was thinking something I know a lot about, like Celtic spirits or spies or random things ^^

Yes, I know, but why?

Alexis wrote: "Laurel wrote: "Alexis wrote: "Laurel wrote: "Alright, so I just signed up for the National Novel Writing Month, aka, NaNoWriMo. I'm quite excited, apart from the fact that I'm also scared to death ..."

Ahem. Elle, Ethan, I hope you two know you're completely insane? :)


I'm so glad you noticed.

Oh yes, I am laughing ^^ I thought about saying something about how it all happened to sprawl out on my thread when it was completely off topic but I didn't want to be rude.

Okay, idea No. 2 for NaNoWriMo... Thoughts and comments are welcome!! (And greatly encouraged) It's only a start, just to have multiple options, and while I've got a character in mind I don't have anything written down... So, that's where that's at.

Bad things often happen to good people; house fires, getting laid off, being hospitalized, and the like. That's just life- it happens, and it happens quite frequently. Unfortunately for me, I'm learning that bad things happen even more often to the people who are on the opposite side of the 'good person scale'. People who lie, steal, and kill for a living; who live the lives of dozens of people in the span if a week. People like me. In other words:

Spies.

Sure, we all knew it would be hard- only the most mentally and physically strong recruits even make it into the training program. No one currently in the system would be here if we weren't up for the challenge, either. We were here because we knew we could be killed at any moment, that any tiny detail missed would lead to complete disaster; and we like it. The rush, the risk, not to mention the physical and mental hardships. It is literally what we live for. We have nothing if we don't have our job. But that was never a troubling thought for an extremely successful agent... Unless you failed as miserably as I just had.

Oh thank you!! :3 I'm glad somebody liked it! I was worried it was too vague. This makes me feel a lot better about this one ^-^

No, that's a really good hook. Keep writing.