PoFauxNaNo

Blondchen · Nov 1, 2008

Post Faux NaNo!

So for those who have a completed first draft and are now ready to start the edit/second draft/burning of old pages/synopsis/query stage, we thought we needed a place to convene and commiserate.

Update away!

Calla Lily · Nov 1, 2008

It's cold. I'll bring the mulled wine.

*stares at her 380-page ms.*

Blondchen · Nov 1, 2008

Ugh. For the last hour and a half I have been stuck on three pages and have only managed to expand one paragraph on the interior of an abandoned cottage. Now I'm stuck trying to find a type of bush my MC is going to crash land in when she launches herself out a window. THIS SUCKS.

At this rate, I'll be lucky to finish the whole thing by Turkey Day. :Headbang:

Keyan · Nov 1, 2008

Holly! It's the only bush to land in, this time of the year...

I am halfway through draft number 1. I can't nano (guests, only looking to write another 20-25 K), but this forum looks good. Edam? Triple cream brie? Triscuits?

Blondchen · Nov 1, 2008

Did you say CHEESE, Keyan?

*looks at the half eaten slab of Gruyere on her kitchen counter*

I believe you have come to the right place!

czjaba · Nov 1, 2008

Hey guys. Just found this thread. I'll be officially here starting on Monday. I'm taking tomorrow off. Just got done with the 2nd draft Thursday, so I'm taking a few days off.

Dragonfly45 · Nov 1, 2008

Ok, I admit I'm a slacker and didn't finish FauxNaNo...in fact, I stalled out at page 100 and started a completely new project. Can I come into this thread for my second attempt at FauxNano (I don't like the formality of real NaNo, lol)? I'll bring brownies...

sunna · Nov 1, 2008

colbymarshall1 said:
Ok, I admit I'm a slacker and didn't finish FauxNaNo...in fact, I stalled out at page 100 and started a completely new project. Can I come into this thread for my second attempt at FauxNano (I don't like the formality of real NaNo, lol)? I'll bring brownies...

Hey, we can have our own corner, Colby, providing we get in the door *aims puppydog eyes toward Blond*. PrePoFauxNaNo. Or something.

Got a little under 10K left that didn't hapen in FauxNaNo: it's getting done this month, though, dammit. And I'm going to get at least a first-pass look in on top of that. No more mz-slacker-girl for me.

Vandal · Nov 1, 2008

I guess I'm ready for this room...

It took me a year to write my current novel so the stuff at the beginning is practically foreign. Time to start whackin' and cuttin'.

Wow, I just cut all of Chapter 1. We hardly knew ya...

Dragonfly45 · Nov 1, 2008

PrePoFauxNano...I love it.

Blondchen · Nov 1, 2008

Now about FauxNaNo Redux?

We take all comers. Especially when you bring brownies.

heyjude · Nov 2, 2008

Pass the brownies, please. I have hot apple cider and an ms that needs some whipping into shape.

Blondchen · Nov 2, 2008

Sundays are my favorite days for editting. Lots of useless background noise on the TV (football, yay) and today, it's actually wet and rainy here! It hasn't been wet and rainy in, oh, a year? I'm literally not kidding.

I'm considering staying in my PJs all day...

heyjude · Nov 2, 2008

Ditto on Sundays. Nice and quiet. The noise here is from a PlayStation 3. Everyone is immersed but me.

Of course we're having a half-way decent day here so I'll get the kids out to the park. But I'm on page 238 out of 278 so I'm making decent progress on my first pass-through.

Blondchen · Nov 2, 2008

I've showered, but true to my word I'm still in PJs.

And I've FINALLY managed to finish the chapter I've been working on for two days. ARGH. I knew there was a reason I skipped it the first time around. Creative insertion of background and characterization is such a slog. Makes my brain hurt!

Red-Green · Nov 2, 2008

I'm sitting here, mostly pleased with the book produced during FauxNano, but staring at the utter roadkill that is my first attempt at a decent query blurb for the book. Thanks to those who came to prod the carcass over on SYW. (I don't plan to linger over this book. I plan to go back for another round of edits at some point this month, then start querying in December.)

JenWriter · Nov 2, 2008

I didn't finish FauxNaNo either. I'm a slacker. I am, however, all signed up for Sven's 70 Days of Sweat which starts on November 10. In the meantime, I'm working on this blasted synopsis.

sunna · Nov 3, 2008

I'm definitely in my pjs now - but it's quarter past 6 in the am, so I would be.

Got in only 400 yesterday since I ended up spending most of it helping my dad "winterize" stuff, but I'm back in the groove now, baby. This scene is going pretty well, and I read back about 50 pages and that all actually looked pretty good too.

Luck on the synopsis, Jen - I hate those things.

ink wench · Nov 3, 2008

Ooh, nice thread. I've got coffee for the Monday morning blues.

The first seven chapters of my novel-in-edits hit the figurative cutting room floor this weekend. How's that for progress? Now I need to figure out how to re-insert the important stuff.

Red-Green · Nov 3, 2008

Wow, Ink. Now that's some editing. My edits are helping me creep closer to 80K.

As for synopses, Jen. I'd almost rather have a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. :e2poke:

ink wench · Nov 3, 2008

It was painful editing! Though I must say, I do like my new opening line a lot more than the old.

Blondchen · Nov 3, 2008

7 Chapters? *passes Ink an Irish coffee* Holy shiznit.

I have made it 136 pages through my first round of edits. That included cutting most of one chapter and then rewriting it (so, so painful) and finishing a chase scene I gave up on last time around. So far, I'm up to 67K.

Going to work like a fiend today because tomorrow is a lost day. I have to (god forbid) go to my part time job and then I'm off to an election night party.

heyjude · Nov 3, 2008

Finished my first pass at the ms. Needs work. Needs serious work, particularly at the end where I got excited and went waaaay too fast.

Blondchen · Nov 3, 2008

Pull up a chair at the revisions table, Jude. Woo hoo!

Vandal · Nov 3, 2008

I'm doing a casual walkthrough of the entire ms. I have deleted two of the first seven chapters.

Imagine what I'll find when I do a serious runthrough.

Shudder...

PoFauxNaNo

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On hiatus

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ubiquitous

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dreaming of the day...

Purveyor of the Sparkly

In the Center of things

Purveyor of the Sparkly

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Making my own sunshine

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Making my own sunshine

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Word Count Slayer

ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine

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ray of motherf#%&ing sunshine

Honey Badger don't give a shit.

Making my own sunshine

Honey Badger don't give a shit.

In the Center of things