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Old 10-11-2012, 02:13 AM

haha, i guess it's not exactly for the weak stomachs. Lots of blood and stuff D=

I like it though, i hate detective series but i like dexters character, even if he is a serial killer xDD

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:22 AM

It's too close to horror for my liking and horror gives me nightmares. XD I'll stick with Doctor Who, Sherlock, NCIS, Bones, Switched at Birth and Glee. Haha!

PHobiaphobia - fear of fear, is the closest thing I can think of right now.

Oh, question: I may throw some random phobias into my novel -- any interesting ones that y'all think I should try to throw in?

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#153
Old 10-11-2012, 02:39 AM

Anxiety it sounds like hun! Fear of Fear, or fear of death or the feeling that you're dying.

I suffer from that so i could probably write it, but its such a confusing and big disorder i guess you'd have to know it to be able to write it!

If yours is a romance maybe you can make it a fear of something silly to add to comedy haha. Like spiders. Or make a character agrophobic? (fear of going outside or being around people/closterphobia)

Perhaps a lovely young man helps her overcome it ^_^

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:41 AM

It is a romance - just not totally sure how they'll meet yet - as far as I've got figured, it's going to be a romance through letters for the time being. And haha, oh.... It'd probably be a silly fear, so I don't need to do too much research into it, but we'll see. I may put in something like that. Oh, I like that one! Works perfectly if it's going to be a Romance through written letters/e-mail.

I say I don't plan, but I always do have a very vague idea like this, to get started but don't do any major planning or whatnot.

Just messaged you with my vague idea - not posting it here, because I tend to jinx myself if I tell big groups of people.

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:47 AM

And it is a good idea as i said in my reply! I'll keep it hush though so i don't jinx you either xD

Love letters though <3

I hope somebody sends me one, ONE DAY. When i get over my fear of relationships that is. Damn Jim! xD

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#156
Old 10-11-2012, 02:52 AM

Thanks! If it turns out well, I'll send you snippets of it, if you'd like. =]

I'm slowly getting over my fear of abandonment after what happened with my ex.
Did I tell you that we're working on re-building our friendship, right?

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:55 AM

Aw thats good. I'll probably never hear from jim again except through my friend scott who introduced us in the first place.

Apparently he's engaged to his new gf now, so no room for talking to ex's i suppose!

I just don't wanna be in that situation again for a while yet. He killed my confidence loads so i figure im better off on my own till i get some of it back xD

And ditto to the snippets, im sure i'll be eager to send a few here and there if i think i've written well hehe! xD

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:57 AM

*hug* At least you know that you don't want to go back to feeling like that.
I just keep thinking, that if things hadn't have gone the way that they did - I'd probably be married to my best friend by now. *sigh*
Gotta love how life works sometimes.

I tend to share strange funny bits if I feel it's going well as well.

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:57 AM

For some reason the name Gerard keeps coming to me because Gerard Butler is one sexy man! I wonder if i can sneak him into mine somewhere

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:58 AM

I know you'd be able to sneak it in somehow. =]

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Old 10-11-2012, 02:59 AM

Ah well, i guess it teaches us for next time around. It sucks but its not often people end up staying with the first serious boyfriend they have. I'll be better next time around and i'll be quick to tell them off if they treat me horribly!

And im sure you'll be more inquisitive if you think something is off!

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:00 AM

True true! I actually signed myself up for 3 months over at eHarmony, just to give it a try. Worth a try at least. We'll see where things go.

And true true. Definitely - seeing as my ex turned out to be Gay... I did suppose, I just didn't really ask questions when I probably should have. *sigh* Oh, well... We just have to learn to move on.

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:03 AM

Aww well even if you don't find love you might find a few friends to talk to!

And yes, move on we shall, even if its slow going D=

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:04 AM

I just will deal with telling my parents if I do meet someone. XD Haha!
We'll deal with that when we get there.

And agreed there - it is slow going, but we will indeed manage to move on. We can do it!

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:05 AM

And until then we can keep our heads in romance novels or attempt to write a perfect love story till we find our own! xD

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:15 AM

The thing about a thread full of novelists... y'all don't stop writing!

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:16 AM

Bahaha Carzee. Needed that. Thankyou!

And yus, it'll be interesting when november comes, between writing ours and writing in here we'll be writing for a month non-stop! xD

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:19 AM

I know right! And I have exams in November as well!

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:22 AM

Lavi: Sounds like a plan there!

Carzee: So true so true! Just a warning, once November hits. I'll become antisocial because I can't totally focus on my life plus noveling at the same time, plus my letters, and school.... and other things I'm totally spacing on right now.... Something has to go.

Oh, yes!!! My birthday! How could I forget my birthday. My birthday is also in November.

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:34 AM

oooh this is how you could reward yourself for winning hope! If you get to 50k by you're birthday allow yourself an awesome birthday treat!

And no worries i understand the being anti-social. At least you have me on your list on Nano, you can send me PM's and stuff if you get stuck or wanna share an excerpt :)

Lucky for me i won't have too much taking my time up, just looking after mum but i always get a good 4 hours a day to myself so plenty of time to get my word count up then!

---------- Post added 10-11-2012 at 04:36 AM ----------

Oh and question. What were you like last year with the word count? Did you write loads more for the first few days then stick to the 1666 a day later on or were you always on target? I can imagine me writing crazy amounts in the beginning then slowing down when i get writers block and stuff xD

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Place Name Generator - Generate Fantasy City, Country and Town Names!

Im gonna go ahead and link this to the first page, it has a list of random name/surname generators too, pretty useful if you're like me and have a lot of characters and places that will need naming as i go!

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Old 10-11-2012, 03:50 AM

Although I'm not super into doing anything for my birthday, because what most want me to do - it'd be too much for me and my anti-socialness. Haha! I get to see my little brother on my birthday - that's enough for me.

Sounds good to me! And same goes for you!

I'd have my up and down days. Most I wrote in one day was 10k... only because I had some big papers coming up that week that I had to focus on, so I had to throw myself ahead of where I should be. But for the most part, if I did write, I'd write between 1500 and 2k words a day. =] I had to -- as I finished 4 days early. :) Mainly... my tip to all of you who haven't done it before, and being a NaNo veteran (having done it last year): ((and I'm bolding it just because I can. ))

Even when you think you can't write... just write anyways. It's ok if it sucks epically... the goal of NaNo is to write quantity, not quality - you can go back later and make it all pretty and nice. Just get the words out, even if it ends up with you questioning your sanity, like I ended up doing through my Main Characters many times. Just write and write and write, and get it out there. Don't be afraid to suck!
I know it's hard -- also DO NOT LET YOURSELF EDIT! Can't stress this enough. It's ok if you go back back and erase a bit, just not huge sections. If you decide you don't like part that you've written... Just space down a bit, and start again, do not erase the bits that you don't like. Every word counts! I know that it's hard. For a perfectionist like myself, to not let myself edit was pure torture. Also write out all contractions... haven't becomes have not. I've become I have... etc... gives you double the words than the contraction would. If that makes sense.
Also if you need any help or guidance or just want to whinge or whine about anything relating to NaNo, feel free to message me - either on here or on the NaNo site... I'm sure that I'm dealing with a similar problem. My main charries tend to hate me as soon as I start noveling.... I can never get it down just right and they love to bother me about not telling their story right.


Anyways, I know, I let my fingers run off on me again. Sorry about that. I really am a novelist at heart, apparently. Darned fingers! :P

Oh, and nice site! =] I've got a baby name app on my iPod that I use for names. And save the favourite names in my favourites list on there. Makes my life a bit easier. Gotta go and mess around on that app a bit to try to narrow down names for my charries. Pretty sure I've got a basic Female name... now to find a good male name for my male main charries. :P

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Old 10-11-2012, 04:00 AM

Haha no worries hun, great advice! :D

Especially the don't shorten words. I mean DO NOT shorten words hehe.

I do that alot in my writings so that will take a while to stick but i'll try! xD

I quite like these generators i've found actually! I'm just checking out the elf and fantasy name ones now as they'll obviously come in use! xD

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Infact i use apostrophes ALOT anyway. Maybe this next couple of weeks talking on here i can try not to use them at all so i can get used to it by the time i start?

Homework for Lavi! :D

As for male charrie ideas, i like to use Alex, Jack, and Christopher a lot in mine. I like those names, and they work for any genre pretty much :P

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Old 10-11-2012, 04:06 AM

Thanks! =] I tend to let my fingers run away from me way too often anyways.

And haha. Yeah - it really does add into the word count, definitely!

I find that I use the whole Find words, and replace words to find all of my words that could possibly be shortened.

Haha, Jack could work - I like names that have good nicknames attached to them.

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#174
Old 10-11-2012, 04:22 AM

Wow how have i ended up being up this late?

Its 5.30am nearly and i got up at 9am xDD

I now understand why novelists never sleep haha

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Old 10-11-2012, 04:26 AM

Haha! Most of my writing ends up being late at night anyways.

This video - a Sherlock video - makes me laugh every time I watch it! I was BUSTING up laughing when I saw it in the show!

 



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