Damnit! I forgot to get Glad garbage bags!
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Give him a boring but weird hobby: he takes photos and blogs about commercial toilets, so he likes to break into stores’s bathrooms (ones for employees, not open to the public). And so he’s in trouble with the law for being a pervert, and gets caught up in all sorts of real burgalry, late night cheating by the boss and secretary, all because he wants to take pics of the toilets after the janitor cleans them.
Or a 3rd person is like this, that he gets connected with, that isnt about smut, bad it just knocks him out of complacency.
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A little cheese in a land of bewildering is the stability of the piece. Dont worry too much.
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Dazed, she surveyed the rest of the mess. There was chocolate sauce smeared across the walls. One of them was in the shape of a heart. Whipped cream dripped off the walls, too. When she scratched her head, there were bits and pieces of stickiness in her hair making some hairs stick together.
“I’m messy,” she said and giggled. Then a part of her saw herself objectively and couldn’t believe what she was doing! She had to stop eating the sweets. It was making her light-headed and silly.
“Shut up, normal me, this is fun.” Giddy Eryn took over and laughed.
Her younger self would have been jealous of this day. So many sweets in this strange room and she didn’t feel full or sick despite having eaten a lot. The Rose Petal Pie of Delightful Fragrant of Orange Seed was the last pastry. A greedy cackle rose up from her throat as she reached for it with both hands. It was a flaky pie shaped like a rose.
Wait, was it shaped like a rose before?
“Who cares?” she said out loud, giggling.
Fixed a little part in the beginning of Between Roses to make it more clear that Eryn has no control over eating the sweets and it made her go silly. I remembered people thinking Eryn did this herself and let herself go.
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Yeah, he just needs something random to happen. I might drop the parents and church storyline. Or he hears people making out and cockblocks them in the bathroom or something? IDK. He has a clothes shop as well. That sounds random.
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Ugh! Project CC needs a title!
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO COME UP WITH A TITLE?!
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Worked on chapter 1 last night, and I shall do one writing session of 45 minutes then end with a 15 minute break of something.
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Wow…my writing sessions usually last about five or ten minutes tops. (♯^.^ღ)
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Honestly, I normally just hyperfocus when I write. It’s just doing it that way leaves me physically exhausted afterwards.
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All my NaNo endeavors followed a pattern: chapter 1 and 2 set up the story. Chapter 2’s ending is where the main plot begins. Chapter 3, we are in the main plot.
I suppose I did that to keep myself and Wattpad readers interested.
Now I’m wondering if I should continue doing it like that. If the main plot doesn’t start at the end of Chapter 2, the beginning needs to be cut down? Maybe? Idk.
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Godzilla vs Kong but with Dragonball Fighters quality of dialogue.
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Right at this moment, I am trying to figure out how and what caused me to reach the end of The House of Naivin’s anthology novel.
I should do another anthology novel the exact same way, but I need a story to fit that.
So, I know I am working on Project CC, yet I need to try something different in terms of format for Alagossia.
Another thing is that I am too focused on worldbuilding and stuff and less on the characters and plot. That’s not good.
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Just what exactly is it a collection of? You could create the same kind of collection, only new plots, of course. (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭‧˚₊･*̥✧
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It was the same plot, but from each sibling’s point of view. It started off with the mother telling her story then goes from the two sons and the daughter and it was supposed to the uncle’s point of view, and I believe the father’s POV in the second edit. That of course didn’t happen.
Each of the siblings and the mother had a chapter broken into six or seven parts, telling the story from their POVs.
EDIT: That isn’t an anthology after all, probably.
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@Akje: Got anything to add because I have a thread for my comment?
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@Qualeshia12 You once asked about humor in stories.
I think this is funny.
Oddly, he was in good spirits. No one would have been able to guess he had ten tantrums and sleepwalked to the kitchen to stuff his face with biscuits in the dead of night, causing the family dog to bark at a supposed intruder.
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You mean anything to add about The House of Naivan ? I don’t know if this will help you, but I’ve found it’s really helping me. I was having trouble getting my current project to work because there’s almost too much in it as far as plots and subplots, so I decided to try outlining someone else’s book instead of my own to figure out how she worked so many subplots so seamlessly into one story. I did it chapter by chapter, just writing a bullet list of the things that happen in each chapter, and then I saw how it came together. Really eye opening!
So I tried that with my own project, making a list of the things that need to happen in each chapter to move the story forward, etc. Just a bullet list, so this shouldn’t interfere with a pantser’s inclination to discovery write. Just the major things that logically need to happen if the story were a real world situation. Maybe outlining your old book that way and then applying that info to your new book might help you too?
Possible things to include
• How has the protagonist or another character changed in the chapter?
• How does the chapter move the story forward?
• Are any new characters introduced? What is their purpose?
• What new information is revealed?
• Were any questions set up in this chapter to be answered later?
• Were any questions answered that were set up previously?
• Does the setting change? How did the characters get there?
• What big decisions are made?
• Are any subplots introduced or resolved?
• What obstacles are now in the character’s way to make things more difficult?
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I can’t do that. I got rid of the stuff for it.
Yeah, I am bad with these things.
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Stuff for it? I don’t think you need any stuff, though. You didn’t destroy the manuscript itself, did you? You just read the book and make notes as you read, analyzing your own work as if it were someone else’s work. Or, if there’s someone else’s work you really admire, you could analyze their book the same way. ( ˆ◡ˆ)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )
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I sure did…sadly.
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