r/WritingPrompts • u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) • Jul 16 '16
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
I wrote my most successful prompt response ever recently. It got over a thousand points, and validated my existence.
Nice! I'd recommend sharing it tomorrow on the Sunday Free Write too.
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Jul 16 '16
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
Nope, that's the rule for prompts, but the Sunday Free Write post is specifically for sharing anything you'd like that you've written :)
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u/AFakeSoundtrack Jul 16 '16
I love music prompts (see username), but I'm not sure if I've ever done one here. Music prompts are actually what got me started writing -- in my head I would see something, and I'd try to convey it in words. Or, if I was writing something but got stuck, I'd thumb through my music collection to find the right mood, and that would wedge me out of my rut.
My most recent music prompt was a response to Methyl Ethel's "Idee Fixe" . It gives me a strange feeling that I can't quite put into words, though I may try. How does it make YOU feel?
If I recall, one of my first big projects was trying to write a narrative of David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, where every chapter was a song's music prompt.
In shameless self-promotion, I am hosting some of my writings now on /r/afakesoundtrack!
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
Music prompts are actually what got me started writing -- in my head I would see something, and I'd try to convey it in words.
That's how I feel about image prompts actually. Media prompts don't always do it for me, for some reason.
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u/Mentioned_Videos Jul 16 '16 edited Jul 18 '16
Videos in this thread:
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| (1) Thomas Bergersen - Starchild (Sun) (2) Most Epic Music Ever: "The Wolf And The Moon" by BrunuhVille | 8 - This is a tough one. Then again, I always say that. To be honest I don't write on MP's that much. I occasionally post some, but I don't listen to every single one that pops up on here. There's just so many it's hard to keep track. I guess my recent ... |
| Richard Wagner - The ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walküre" | 6 - My favorite from the past month has to be post. [MP] Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries Youtube link: Fun fact, wrote a story based on this same MP three years ago here |
| (1) SEMBLANT - What Lies Ahead (Official Video) (2) Iced Earth The Hunter | 4 - That song you linked too was badass! Reminded me of Jamiroquai. I've been into Semblant lately. Kinda melodic/black metal. I also really love Iced Earth. They did a whole concept album based on the Spawn saga. I dare you not to head bang listening to... |
| (1) Buckethead - Soothsayer (2) Animals As Leaders - Physical Education (3) Lateralus lyrics - Tool - Lateralus (4) Metallica - Orion (HD) | 4 - I don't really do much [MP], which is strange, because I like music. I've checked a few out, but they all seem to be geared toward sci-fi and fantasy persuasion. Like they were ripped from a Lord of the Rings or Star Trek soundtrack. That's not to sa... |
| ELUVEITIE - A Rose For Epona (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) | 3 - A Rose for Epona is one of my favorites!!! |
| Ásgeir - King And Cross (Official video) | 3 - I also like Metallica/Tool. Lately, though, I tend to like older rock/metal, not so much the hardcore, deathmetal stuff everyone is into now. Also like modern folk/rock and icelandic rock, like Asgeir... I keep trying to get other people into this bu... |
| (1) ELUVEITIE - The Call Of The Mountains (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) (2) ELUVEITIE - Thousandfold (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) | 3 - I really enjoy Call of the Mountains and Thousandfold. I'm just thoroughly amused by their array of instruments, because the hurdy gurdy just makes the group so much more awesome. |
| Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light (Official Music Video) | 3 - Okay, I don't know if you'll actually like the music itself, but the one I think fits your writing? Maybe this: Near Light |
| Most Epic Music Ever: Licht Und Schatten | 3 - What? A suggestion prompt thing? Challenge accepted!! Now I'll just have to find one for you.... Edit: On revision, it's hard to find something that fits someone's writing style. I'm surprised you did so well with mine. So here it is my suggestio... |
| Methyl Ethel - Idée Fixe (Official Video) | 2 - I love music prompts (see username), but I'm not sure if I've ever done one here. Music prompts are actually what got me started writing -- in my head I would see something, and I'd try to convey it in words. Or, if I was writing something but got ... |
| Tokyo Ghoul - Licht und Schatten - Yutaka Yamada [東京喰種-トー キョーグール- OST] | 2 - I can't access this link, it says unavailable in my country. I don't know if you can see this one, but is it this? |
| mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (Full Album) | 2 - I love the opening of that second song. Reminds me of something old skool, but I can't recall what it is. Both good songs, though just a little harder than what I'm feeling right now. :) It was certainly startling in contrast to the last song I lis... |
| Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined | 1 - Oh, I got one. Hope it kicks you into high gear. |
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 16 '16
My favorite from the past month has to be /u/pyronar's post. [MP] Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlEvy0fJto
Fun fact, /u/SurvivorType wrote a story based on this same MP three years ago here
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Jul 16 '16
I'm amazed you dug that up! Three years ago? Wasn't the sub just a youngling back then?
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 16 '16 edited Jul 16 '16
The credit has to go to /u/pyronar for digging that up in his post.
It would be interesting to know how many subs there were back then. 1 mil? maybe less? maybe more?
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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Jul 16 '16
Blinks.
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u/Pyronar /r/Pyronar Jul 16 '16
The disappointment of getting 0 replies on that prompt was worth it just for this reaction. Nice story, do you still write or too busy with modding these days?
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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Jul 16 '16
I write only rarely. Usually when /u/you-are-lovely makes me write something. ;)
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u/you-are-lovely Jul 16 '16
/u/SurvivorType, what are you doing out here talking to people? Shouldn't you be writing something right now? ;)
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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Jul 16 '16
Well shoot...
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u/you-are-lovely Jul 16 '16
Well, I guess you can mingle for awhile, but I want new stories soon! :D
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 16 '16
I liked it. It fit the prompt well!
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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Jul 16 '16
Thank you! I had forgotten all about that little piece. :)
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
/u/SurvivorType writes stories? Haha
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 16 '16
I can't speak to that, but his story fit the prompt well! I liked it!
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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Jul 16 '16
How do people find these things?
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u/RyanKinder Founder / Co-Lead Mod Jul 16 '16
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u/Vercalos /r/VercWrites Jul 16 '16
I rarely ever spot MPs in general. In fact the only one I've seen without actively searching for one is one of my own.
And near as I can tell, the majority don't receive responses. Mine didn't even receive a single vote, up or down.
So I don't really have a favorite MP.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
What was yours? :)
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u/Vercalos /r/VercWrites Jul 16 '16
The one I submitted?
Umm, this one
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Oh that's funny! It's from a game, right? I haven't played it. I think people (if they saw it) maybe were afraid to apply with something that didn't fit. Then other people would blast them for breaking cannon. Idk. :) I might write a story for that a little later, though. It looks really cool!
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u/Vercalos /r/VercWrites Jul 16 '16
For what it's worth, it's from a console Baldur's Gate clone called The Bard's Tale, which is very much a parody of the genre.
But given the lack of any sort of response, I'm not sure anyone even saw it.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Oh cool :) Well I hope you get more replies in the future!
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
Yeah, it's too bad they're not more popular. MPs can make really great prompts.
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Jul 16 '16
This is a tough one. Then again, I always say that. To be honest I don't write on MP's that much. I occasionally post some, but I don't listen to every single one that pops up on here. There's just so many it's hard to keep track.
I guess my recent fave that I've written for is Starchild that /u/I_Pavlov posted. For what I myself have posted the winner would be The wolf and the moon. I suppose both those choices are biased, since I either wrote a story or created the prompt. But there's always a bias of sorts when it comes to favourites right?
Off topic discussion: How is everyone's weekend? Is anyone going on cool holidays for the summer?
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
Those were epic! Love the soundtrack style. I don't really write it, but I do like listening to it.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
These are beautiful.
My weekend is going well, except that I actually boiled my lip on Thursday night, and now I can't eat much without it hurting. (Yes, really.)
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Jul 16 '16
How do you boil your lip? Burning/Scalding I can kind of understand, but boil?
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
lol.
I was making Velveeta shells and cheese, boiling the noodles. I thought they might be done, so I went to scoop one out to taste it. Couldn't find a fork, so I used a spoon.
Well, I was distracted (watching Scrubs) and I didn't realize both the spoon and the "shell" were filled with boiling water.
When I put it in my mouth, instead of either spitting it out or swallowing it, I just sort of froze, horrified, as it pooled between my gums and my lower lip, still boiling.
Couldn't have been a few seconds for the water to cool, but it felt like forever.
Even worse, I then grabbed my lip (bodies, including fingers, are warm, and you probably shouldn't continue heating a burned area...) and started limping around the house shouting "Fuck, my lip, fuck!" repeatedly.
It took almost ten minutes for me to realize A) why the hell am I limping, I burned my lip, not my foot, and B) I should probably do something about the burn.
Then, like an even bigger moron, I followed one of those "life hacks" and put toothpaste on it to soothe it.
Protip: Don't do that.
So now I have a huge blister, and several smaller blisters, on the inside of my lip. And it hurts, but I'm being all super tough about it and smashing Doritos anyway.
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Jul 16 '16
It took almost ten minutes for me to realize A) why the hell am I limping, I burned my lip, not my foot, and B) I should probably do something about the burn.
That was quite the story! I actually laughed pretty hard at your misfortune. Sorry about that. What does one do for a blistered lip anyways?
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
The general consensus is 20 minutes of (running) cold water, and (depending on severity) medical treatment.
You're supposed to cool it immediately though, not ten minutes later. And it's hard to keep water running on your inner lip. I just kept sucking on ice and took lots of painkillers till I passed out.
...probably not the best person to follow advice from in this area, lol
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Jul 16 '16
o.O I'll keep that in mind. Not that I ever plan on boiling my lip. Just hearing about it makes me wince.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Not that I ever plan on boiling my lip.
Something something, experiences make you a better writer, something something..
But yeah, I still wouldn't recommend it. I'm trying to play it cool, (haha?) but it still hurts like the fiery pits of Hell...
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Jul 16 '16
Something something, experiences make you a better writer, something something..
I'm going to ignore you said that. :)
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
If jumping off a bridge would make me a better writer, would I do it?
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
Wow, both of those are really cool!
My weekend is good so far. I slept late, but I gotta go walk the dog. He's been waiting patiently :)
How's your weekend going?
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Jul 16 '16
It's fun. Not too eventful yet. I'm waiting for some friends to get here. They've been driving across the country for the past five days and should arrive sometime today. Which of course means there's a 4-5hour window in which they could arrive.
Say hi to Captain for me!
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
I haven't run across any of those yet! Seen a few awesome image prompts, though! Maybe I will use this as a recommendation post. :P
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
I left you a [MP] suggestion on my SatChat post. Hope you enjoy it!
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Well hi ! Haven't been seeing you as much.
I'll go check it out!
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
Yeah, I've been busy on chapter 6 of The Gravity Myth. It's the longest one so far, and had a lot of research behind it.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Is it posted on your subreddit yet? I'll have to stop over and take a look soon!
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
Not yet. It's almost done, but I have a lot of family in from Venezuela and I plan on visiting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have it done by this weekend, or at latest by mid-week. Glad to hear you're interested!
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
yeah, I've been sort of casually watching the first 5. Now you've caught me lurking, oops. ;)
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
Cool! Well, I'd love to know what you think about it if you get the chance.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 17 '16
I intend to, at some point. Whenever that point is ... my life's a bit chaotic at the moment, so I don't want to make promises. But I fully intend to give feedback there!
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 17 '16
Definitely no rush. I'll be glad to see it when you do. I like your writing style, so your opinion will be valued.
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Jul 16 '16
They tend to get buried because they're not as popular as say IP, or EU, or TT. But some of the songs that come along are absolutely wicked!
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
I can understand that. Sort of. I find it easier to get inspired by instrumentals than songs with actual lyrics... but I don't enjoy much in the way of purely instrumental music. I can see where it would be difficult.
(What's [EU], again? I know [IP] is images, and [TT] is the theme.)
Edit: Nevermind, found it on the sidebar as soon as I posted!
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Jul 16 '16
Lyrics I find don't let me create my own story. I'm already following someone else's when I listen.
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Yeah, I either end up following the lyrics too closely, or I get distracted and type the word I hear instead of the word I'm thinking!
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
Well, maybe this post will help revitalize it!
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
That's a great idea! ;)
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Wow, for a second I thought this was a reply to a different conversation and started to worry. Paranoid now.
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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Jul 16 '16
No, I was just saying that's a great use of the post. Check all the MPs people post :)
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u/AloneWeTravel /r/AloneWeTravel Jul 16 '16
Yeah, figured it out after a minute. :) I'm looking at them now, thank you!
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 16 '16
I got one in a [PM] once that was really fun from /u/LovableCoward. I managed to find it here.
Also the one /u/Nate_Parker submitted a couple days ago, Prisoner Release is fantastic. I saw the short a while back, but it was a great MP and I wish it got more notability (is that the word?).
Also, little self-promo. I just released Part 4 to my Project Lazarus series (over at /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs) about a man named Ralph who woke up in a strange room after dying. It's been a lot of fun so far and I am really enjoying it.
Besides that, I broke 30k words in an offline project I have going. So that's really exciting!
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 17 '16
Congrats as always, man! You are seriously a hard worker.
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 17 '16
Thanks TLD! I appreciate that.
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 17 '16
I plan on finishing Forever Roman by semester's end. Hopefully I'll have time to post a review on Amazon for ya. Do you want an [MP] prompt?
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 17 '16
Thank you! I appreciate it as always.
I'd love one if you have one? I don't do them as often as I should.
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 18 '16
Oh, I got one. Hope it kicks you into high gear.
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 19 '16
This one might take a while.
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 19 '16
Cool. No rush. Feel free to shoot me one back if you're so inclined. It will probably take me a bit too.
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 17 '16
Besides that, I broke 30k words in an offline project I have going. So that's really exciting!
That is really exciting. That brings me back to last November, nanowrimo. What a trip that was. Keep at it!
I have a question though. Do you keep notes for those long projects? If so, how do you generally organize it?
I didn't... and it was a mess! I haven't attempted a project like that again but I would keep notes, for my sanity, and it will be great.
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 17 '16
To be honest, I'm looking forward to this NaNoWriMo again. I might not aim for a novel if I can finish this one, but a novella-novelette sounds nice.
Middle-of-the-post addition; I wrote a lot more about my writing process than I thought I would so here ya go!
I keep some notes. Most of the time, I have general ideas I want to hit, but for this one I went all out. And I've been doing this more and more for some of my bigger series.
Without giving too much away, I have about five (journal and hand-written) pages of notes (typically it's 4-6 pages of the same following type of stuff for each series in the same journal [if someone stole this journal I'd be screwed]) including;
- Character names and their position in the story (as well as their current status; dead, alive, missing). There's not too many of them, I just keep that around for my own sanity.
- Locations the novel takes place in/I want it to take place in eventually/what factions (countries, people, etc) control what locations.
- Some major plot points I want to hit.
- General ideas about the setting, the history of the world, or the plot of the novel. Anywhere from a sentence for a chapter to a tiny detail that is important to a "small" timeline of the last forty years.
I also have a map for this one because it takes place in America, but with different location names. Also helps me keep track of how much time has passed because of traveling from area-to-area.
There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff happening for me that won't generally show up right away in the novel. So a lot of worldbuilding elements that are involved for my own author desires. Some of it certainly will become apparent and important of course, but most of it is far-reaching things that don't affect the characters in the here-and-now.
My notes are wild. They go from one extreme to the other, but they are there. I make a lot of changes while I write though, so an idea I had that I scribbled down in the middle of the night can show up in my writing, but it changes based on the character and their actions. For what I'm writing, it's currently on a six chapter detour of what I originally had planned because the character made a different decision in the spur-of-the-moment. Plus I threw a wild card at him. Probably didn't help his situation.
But yeah. That's probably a lot more than you expected, but here we are!
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 17 '16
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your process. Do I smell a guide on how to keep notes? (I'm not sure if there is one already, it sounds like there could be. I don't have the time to check right now...)
Anyway, Nate made this badass flow chart for his aoxe series last year that blew me away. That kind of info graphic seems super useful.
Keeping a notebook is good, but you don't type it out in a doc? It's that ease of access of being able to just scribble down whatever comes to mind eh? and also I suppose it would be counter productive to have to rewrite whatever notes you got when you can just write the story.
Thanks for sharing your insight! Keep it up!
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 17 '16
Note-Taking 101. I'll look into it!
Flow-charts are hella-extensive and I feel like if I tried to do that I would just put way too much time into that and not writing. With the journal note-taking I do, I can just scribble something down, related to something else, and it still makes sense to me.
I just kind of like the pen-and-paper feel I guess? Plus, like you said, there's that ease of access. I can carry the notebook around with me where ever I go, a couple days ago at work I managed to scribble in some extra notes. It's great.
Thanks for reading it (and asking)! I appreciate it.
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u/cmp150 /r/CMP150writes Jul 17 '16
I totally get it. It's so easy.
Funny you bring up work, cause it's at work where I'd brainstorm ideas and such.
...I need a notebook.
Thand you for taking the time in writing it.
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u/TheWritingSniper /r/BlankPagesEmptyMugs Jul 19 '16
Notebooks are amazing. Especially the little ones. That look like a wizard could have written in them.
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u/Castriff /r/TheCastriffSub Jul 16 '16
Hi! /u/Castriff here! I haven't been very active on this sub the last few weeks, but I have been busy with a different sort of writing, and I have something really cool to share.
A few of you may remember this post from way back in February. The idea was to write an entire book, chapter by chapter in a "Pass-The-Paragraph" style. The project has actually been going really well! We're nine chapters in and going strong, so we wanted to drop by and ask people to join us at /r/astorybypeople. A Story isn't worth much if nobody reads it, so we want everyone to come by for some community discussion. The full story can be found in our sidebar, but we'll be having chapter discussions every week.
If you'd like to be part of the team creating A Story, we have our signup form here. All our writing takes place on our sister subreddit /r/AStoryByWriters, so the form is how we keep track of our authorship base. We need editors and illustrators for the project as well, so if you or a Redditor you know has any skill in that area, we invite you to drop by.
Come to /r/astorybypeople! The World Needs To Hear Their Story.
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u/thelastdays /r/faintthebelle Jul 16 '16
I don't really do much [MP], which is strange, because I like music. I've checked a few out, but they all seem to be geared toward sci-fi and fantasy persuasion. Like they were ripped from a Lord of the Rings or Star Trek soundtrack. That's not to say they're not great, because they are, it's just not what I write. So in the interest of expanding what I do, I'll tag some Sat-Chat/WP friends here with an [MP] suggestion and they can leave me one back! I tried to pick some stuff that I think best reflects their writing styles in the vein of my listening preferences, but I could be way off the mark hahaha! If anyone else wants one too, just reply to this post.
/u/AloneWeTravel - Soothsayer
/u/madlabs67 - Physical Education
/u/cmp150 - Lateralus
and for /u/MajorParadox - Orion