Warmup #18
800 word challenge:
Fictionalize your day to the point of it being engrossing.
PS: If you’re not me, you may not need to fictionalize too much for it to be engrossing. I’m just trying to make myself feel better.
Monthly Archives:
October 2008Interesting fact #1293
Did you know that there is an odd correlation between individuals who do not have automotive insurance and phone calls from lawyers related to soft-tissue injuries from low speed automotive accidents?
Warmup #17
800 word challenges:
Write the same scene in first person.
Warmup #16
800 word challenge:
Write the same scene in third person.
Warmup #15
800 word challenge:
Write a scene in second person.
Warmup #14
500 word challenge:
Write a single paragraph summary of your intended Nano. Then write a thirty-second sales pitch for it.
(Thanks, Wayzgoose!)
Warmup #13
500 word challenge:
Write a fight scene.
Warmup #12
500 word challenge:
Persuade me to buy a car.
What to Write, 2008 Edition
Welcome to this year’s annual installation of “What should I write for Nano?”
Last year I mostly finished To Kill a Goddess, in which a ne’er-do-well is blackmailed into killing his own mother — where the blackmailer is Ares, and the mother is Eris, and the ne’er-do-well is from Las Vegas. Genies, vampires, dragons, leprechauns — and it’s not a comedy.
This year, well, I don’t have as solid a plan as I did when I decided on that plotline.
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Warmup #11
500 word challenge:
Explain to a robot child where little robots and robettes come from.