NaNoWriMo IV

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It seems I’ve contradicted myself already and I haven’t even started the darn story. I said in my first NaNoWriMo post that I would put a character related poll Friday, yet yesterday I said I would put it up today. I know just how to fix this, two sets of polls. Today Character styles, sexes, and motivations; tomorrow Villains and Heroes. Rejoice at the Poll-y goodness.

Humm It seems that PollDaddy and WordPress are having a minor software issue. Looks like there will be a bunch of polls tomorrow if it works.

As for today, I’d like Names, the stranger and more steeped with meaning the better. I want character names, villain names, pet names, place names etc.

Thanks again for all your help.

NaNoWriMo Part III

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In the Genre category we have 31 votes as of Wednesday the 29th at 10:50am. In first place is Modern Fantasy with 9 votes; second place is High Fantasy with 4 votes; and third is a three was tie between Modern Sci-fi, Detective/Film Noir, and Autobiography of a fictional character.

Seeing as many people want some fantasy, this poll will deal with the elements you want to see in it. Most of these will appear but the winner of the poll will be the most prominent.

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In the Mood category we have 31 votes as of Wednesday the 29th at 10:50am. In first place is Humour Satire with 8 votes; in a close second is Humour Goofy Absurd with 6 votes; and third is Gritty with 4 votes.

Satire pulled up front pretty early in the game, I’m not sure if it’s going to be easy and in this case I think I’ll deviate from the poll results and go with more of a cross between Gritty and absurd.

This helped me make up my mind as to what feel this will have and now I want to ask about your opinion on the Setting.

[polldaddy poll=1056193]

Tune in tomorrow for Characters.
Thank you for your comments and votes.

NaNoWriMo Part III

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In the Genre category we have 31 votes as of Wednesday the 29th at 10:50am. In first place is Modern Fantasy with 9 votes; second place is High Fantasy with 4 votes; and third is a three was tie between Modern Sci-fi, Detective/Film Noir, and Autobiography of a fictional character.

Seeing as many people want some fantasy, this poll will deal with the elements you want to see in it. Most of these will appear but the winner of the poll will be the most prominent.

[polldaddy poll=1056176]

In the Mood category we have 31 votes as of Wednesday the 29th at 10:50am. In first place is Humour Satire with 8 votes; in a close second is Humour Goofy Absurd with 6 votes; and third is Gritty with 4 votes.

Satire pulled up front pretty early in the game, I’m not sure if it’s going to be easy and in this case I think I’ll deviate from the poll results and go with more of a cross between Gritty and absurd.

This helped me make up my mind as to what feel this will have and now I want to ask about your opinion on the Setting.

[polldaddy poll=1056193]

Tune in tomorrow for Characters.
Thank you for your comments and votes.

NaNoWriMo Part II

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I’ve had a lot of people tell me the usual writing axioms. I want to clarify my intentions with these polls. They’re ideas to inspire me. I’m taking a cue from my days in improv where we were given a title, category, style, and time limit. With this limited information we needed to create a story. While writing I get ideas for scenes and think “that would be awesome in my story” and then I add it. Sadly this tends to make stringing the scenes together difficult, that’s why I like to set a theme, mood, characters, and genre. It gives me the guidelines I need to string a bunch of interesting scenes together.

I start at the beginning and as I get Ideas I write them down in point form and cross them out when I finish writing the Idea.

The polls are very useful for inspiration. I used this method a year or so ago to write a script for a webcomic. I now have major story arcs for 3 years worth of strips and detailed scripts for the first 6 months. The major hiccup is my slow speed at learning to draw. The writing was much simpler then I thought even if it was labour intensive.

That’s what I’m hoping to do with these polls.

Thank you and please remember to vote.

NaNoWriMo

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I’m going to be pushing myself and trying to do NaNoWriMo.  It’s a writing challenge to write a novel of 50 000 words in November. I don’t expect to actually finish with a publishable novel but just writing with improve my style and skills.

I created a set of polls, in order to get started I want your help deciding what to write. Not any details just Genre and tone for now. I’ll make more polls on Wednesday for some extra clarifications and some more on Friday for Character names and attitudes. Then on Saturday I’ll start writing. I’ll post the results here either daily or weekly with a word count.

Wish me luck and please comment and vote.

Thank you

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A Review of HBO’s TrueBlood

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It seems that there are only two opinions about this show, Love and Hate. I never read the books that the show is based on, Charlaine Harris’s Dead Until Dark. I also wasn’t a huge fan of Ball’s previous show, Six Feet Under. It was ok but not enough to get my attention; all this to say that I had very little expectations going into the pilot episode.  

 

*Warning Spoilers*

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