#nano17

[yellowsugarwords]

When tragedy became a constant in ones life, nothing becomes a tragedy. That mentality is a dangerous one to own.

Overtime by JustAJournalist / ThatGlitteryGeek

[spectralarchers]

NOTHING BURNS LIKE THE COLD

Based on thorough historical and geo-political research on Greenland, Nothing Burns Like the Cold tries to investigate how Captain America’s crash in the Arctic influenced worldwide politics by pulling on Real Life problems and International Associations, by looking through the eyes of SHIELD agent Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye and his implication in the findings of the Valkyrie and Steve Rogers in the ice. 

NB: Whenever a real historical fact or real geographical location shows up, further reading links have been inserted in the footnote of the chapter. 

It all started with this gifset, this story spiralled into a full blown NaNoWriMo novel when I borrowed 14 books on Greenlandic Geo-Political History and Military, as well as Social and Economic things. 

Happy reading, everybody <3

If you like this story, intend to read it, or want to bookmark it, reblog this post to your blog or share it elsewhere ♥

[theshadowedqueen82]

Me: Hey, muse, maybe we could work something out where you show up before 10:30 at night?

My Muse: Unacceptable. Ideas look better under the cover of darkness.

Me:...

Muse:...

Me:...

Me: Fair enough

[incandescent-creativity]

My NaNoWriMo PSA

“50,000 words in a month?! I could never!”

Okay. Maybe you can’t.

So?

Why should you let that stop you? You are a writer. You take reality by the horns and wrestle it into submission.

Usually we do this one word at a time. All that NaNoWriMo presents is an opportunity to do this thousands of words at a time. That’s all it is! 

My first year doing NaNo, 2015, I did not make the 50K mark. Not even close. I didn’t even get half–I wrote 24,283 words. But you know what?

It was fun as heck! I had a great time! And at that moment in my life, the rate at which I wrote was about 20K a year. 20K a year. So, no, I didn’t hit the 50K mark. But I did write more in a month than I wrote in a year, and that means that I succeeded.

So maybe you can‘t write fifty thousand words in a month. No one will blame you if you can’t; it’s a lot to do. But it’s worth signing up for and participating in anyway, because you’ll never know until you try.

[bibliophilicwitch]

Don’t mind me, just organizing my ideas and compiling links for the last three Write-Ins.

Library Crawl (runs about 2.5hrs)

The Casual Campaign Dungeon (runs for about 2.25hrs)

Thanksgiving Crawl (runs long, but if anyone show’s up for the Write-In on the 22nd, we’ll do as much of this as we can)

The [d&d] Adventure Crawl (this is LONG and COMPLICATED, but might be fun...)

The Word-Eater’s Dungeon (cute, quick game for filler)

[genderpunktheo]

And so it begins! For those of you who don’t know NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write 50 thousand words in the month of November - that’s 1,667 words a day. My chosen novel for this year is A Pinch Of Salt, a prequel to the main queer witch story following Ren and Vic (who you met in one of my Halloween shorts yesterday) as they meet. The girls are fairly minor characters in TFOSB but I love them both so I feel like they deserve their own story. 

For this month, I’ll put TFOSB on hold and come back to it afterwards. But I’ll try to post regular updates so you can all see how I’m getting on! Love you guys xx

[cyberphuck]

"That would take a little explaining," he said. "And I don't want to do it with you cornered in this hallway."

God, he's so *reasonable,* like he's doing the neighborly thing by not ripping out my throat and he'll be stopping by later with lemon bars to make sure I'm all settled in to my new home on Being Chased by a Werewolf street. All of the wolves I've known have always been quiet, shoulders hunched, eyes down, keeping to themselves so that the Order doesn't think they're about to--

Ama's only just begun to turn when I've got the gun pointed at him again. "Yes?" he asks.

"He killed someone," I say lowly. "John Ferman murdered someone and you came to help him get away before the Hunters got him."

The friendly neighbor expression vanishes, leaving just the hard angles of his face and that dark, intense stare. "I was hoping," he sighed, "that I could get you out of here before you said that."

I'm not shaking anymore; I feel like the hallway is dropping away from me. He's facing me again, square on, and I can see tension in the muscles in his arms where there hadn't been any before. I dropped my phone somewhere outside, and even if I had it, it wasn't going to make any difference. There's no way anyone could come to help me in the fraction of a second it's going to take him to Shift and lunge at me.

I'm going to die here, simple as that.

[diary-of-a-recovering-party-girl]

I made it!

[the-font-bandit]

40,061 words

Day 12, and Book 3 is nearly drafted (in a very rough-sketch sort of way). Once I add to it the 25k I wrote before November, I’ll have a respectable first pass at things.

So. Many. Words.

[holy-quinity]

garbage doodles of my garbage boys

the two on the bottom are of Rasorin, the protagonist of my nano. He was originally invented to be the antagonist, but then I couldn’t come up with a protagonist I found nearly as interesting as him so I guess I’m writing an anti-hero for the first time? We’ll see. He’s extremely grumpy and extremely gay

[crollalanzaa]

Hey, NanoWriMo 2017, I whooped your ass!

[yellowsugarwords]

meet agent blackwind — the muscle

❝ Obviously, we need to order a pizza. ❞

Overtime → out in 10 days

[spectralarchers]

I WROTE 3,642 WORDS IN AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES Y’ALL

THAT MAKES IT “WINNING NANOWRIMO” 4 YEARS IN A ROW

I am still missing one scene and the two ‘post credits’ scenes but otherwise I AM DONE

[theshadowedqueen82]

Me: Met my word count goal today, I can finally relax!

Me: ...by writing something!

Me:....

Me: wait

[incandescent-creativity]

What is this ? Planning?? Outlining??? In my sequel????

More likely than you think, apparently.

[bibliophilicwitch]

Let's start a NaNo Tumblr follow train!

Go through the notes of this post to find Tumblrs that you have common interests with and follow at least 5. (You may also buddy WriMos on the NaNo site, but it isn't required.)

Reblog this post and share:

Name, NaNo username (link to your page)

Genre (opt. title and short blurb/synopsis)

If you are focused on anything specific such as characterization, plotting, worldbuilding, whatever, share that too!

At least three things that make up the content of your blog during the rest of the year.

The first ten do not have to follow anyone, but please come back and check out the notes to stay following back.