Well, since everyone seems to be doing it, time to jump off a cliff…
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The obligatory 2011/2012 post…
Posted by RK Bentley
on December 31, 2011
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[Plotting About] Back to my roots*…
Posted by RK Bentley
on December 5, 2011
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*Uttered by one of the RI Wrimos after delving back into her Harry Potter fanfic on our last Write In of 2011.
At our TGIO Party we passed around pages of our NaNo Novels and one of the members of the Rhody Writing Group suggested that Chapter Six was better before I changed it.
The change was not so subtle instead of crashing on an alien world, our hero is snatched away from certain death by pirates, dumped in the brig and later their ship comes under attack, bordered by suicide bombers, subsequently blow up and tumbles out the sky with our hero watching in horror. The idea is still sound but its too much for the book even if it expands the universe.
I looked back on the original Chapter Six, found it, edited it back in and looked for Chapters Seven and Eight which I wrote this summer but removed once Chapter Six took a new route.
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[NaNoWrimo] Have whiteboard will travel…
Posted by RK Bentley
on November 27, 2011
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So with NaNoWrimo winding down so are the Write Ins, the last Saturday Write In for Exeter Library was me, myself and I and I managed to plot out my WIP across the Library’s whiteboard.
This solved a great deal of problems I had been having, including the writer’s block at the 21k before NaNoWrimo began.
So, 3 hrs later I have a twelve page double spaced beat sheet from beginning to end.
Some of what I wrote during NaNoWrimo is savable.
The 76k I posted a few days ago is about to hacked at again, thankfully no page one re-write is needed.
[Turkey Day] Updates…
Posted by RK Bentley
on November 24, 2011
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[NaNoWrimo] It’s not the volts that kills you. It’s the amps.*
Posted by RK Bentley
on November 19, 2011
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*Once again a lovely conversation at one of Write Ins regarding human beings and electrocution.
I’m one day behind from last year but I have successfully passed 50k with 
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Today was a lovely day, sunny outside to drive down to the Exeter Write In at the Library managed to fill up to four people. Two of us made it to 50k. Went to the Gym, cleaned out my box at Rah-CoCo’s and then went to the Johnston Write In at Brewed. One of semi-regulars even flew out to San Fran for the night of Writing Dangerously. Judging from the tweets from Boston, there’s a 24 hr Write In currently going on.
I’m happy to see our group is still so small. The pictures from Boston’s 2010 Write Ins looks like a logistical nightmare at first but some of those write ins are at a Conference Room at B+N which would be great in RI if they had Conference Rooms.
So far headcount wise: Warwick, Cranston and Johnston seem to be attracting a fair amount of people. Next year I’m going to look into Woonsocket/Cumberland/Middletown/Newport areas. Assuming Exeter will have us back next year, I wonder if Saturday Write Ins will be worth it or not since we have three of us last week and four of us this week.
So the current standing is:
The NaNoWrimo DEATH BAR count is:
I’m keeping the goal at 100000 because I figure a lot of what I wrote is complete crap and or could be shoved into the next book depending on how wide I want the scope of the current work in progress to span.
For those keeping score with what I’ve done already:
The WIP DEATH BAR count is:
[NaNoWrimo] Advice on getting to 50k…
Posted by RK Bentley
on November 15, 2011
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A few brief words of advice about getting to 50k.
A few NaNoWrimos back I tried to write a sci-fi space race with zombies.
It was a sort of unofficial sequel to my zombie NaNoWrimo novel from the year before.
Unfortunately, I got to 25k and after several Write Ins of starting at the blank page I hit page break and started a new story. Suffice to say I’ll be going back to the zombies once I’m done with the current work in progress. In the end, I made it to 50k and have two stories to edit soon or later.
I’ve never been a fan of first person, but I’ve come around recently with the amount of Urban Fantasy I’ve been reading. So this next suggestion only works with third person.
All of my works in progress is third person with several different points of view.
One of those views is the villain.
This allows for a few things to happen: First, you don’t stay with Harry Potter for the entire book and you get to stretch out the universe around your characters without talking heads, info dumping and the James Bondian villain explaining it all.
It reminds me a bit of why I hate the plots of Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, the Empire POV lacked immensely due to there was no Empire POV and the Jedi’s were complete idiots.
At least in New Hope, Empire and Jedi there were some Empire POV that moved the plot forward.
Starting in the middle of the conversation helps a bit if you don’t want to deal with the slow build up.
Deathbar Count update later on tonight…
