tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597446736200108024.post7060777282056115908..comments2024-03-28T00:28:02.920-07:00Comments on Navigating the Slush Pile: NaNoWriMo NOPnessVickie Motterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15791034462866079818noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597446736200108024.post-22253258578208921962010-11-08T08:13:13.691-08:002010-11-08T08:13:13.691-08:00Im definitely a NOP person. Always have been. I re...Im definitely a NOP person. Always have been. I remember when I was first learning how to outline in school, I would still write the paper first and then go back and then write the outline to turn in to the teacher lol.Aprilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964740691519004843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597446736200108024.post-56378665685610550362010-11-06T00:21:47.477-07:002010-11-06T00:21:47.477-07:00I'm the whale.
I sneak onto your computer lat...I'm the whale.<br /><br />I sneak onto your computer late at night and delete your words for the day.<br /><br />mwa ha ha.<br /><br />THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE HIGHLANDER!!!I just don't sleep anymore, so I writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02944307752779048740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597446736200108024.post-85024418295745221112010-11-05T12:03:17.378-07:002010-11-05T12:03:17.378-07:00I'm decidedly undecided.
When I first started ...I'm decidedly undecided.<br />When I first started writing, I outlined the damn manuscripts to death, but then I'd get into the actual writing business and my characters would push me in new directions. Outline meet trash can.<br /><br />Then I took the NOP approach and wrote on the fly. That worked out well, except I had an awful time remembering minor character names, and town names, etc.<br /><br />For Nano this year, since my genre is Middle Grade Historical Fantasy (what a mouthful) and the historic part of the MGHF had to be historically correct, I busted out a journal and began researching and plotting and clipping and planning. (I think there might even be a reasonably good plan-of-action for world domination in there somewhere - perhaps page 55) <br /><br />At this point, now that I've written about 14,000 words of it, I've revised the major plot points twice in that journal and once in my head. Yeah, the novel I end up with will look very little like the novel I had outlined.<br /><br />So, probably a NOP, at least until next time.<br /><br />*headdesk*Amy Tripphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14186095547685620716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597446736200108024.post-86397038858281250822010-11-05T11:47:45.680-07:002010-11-05T11:47:45.680-07:00Hmm? I'm a pantser so I guess I'd be a NOP...Hmm? I'm a pantser so I guess I'd be a NOP. Good luck on your 60K. Soooo, are you an A.I.T? Or a writer hoping to be published?Karen Baldwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522178275164058849noreply@blogger.com