it seems to me 98% of everything that wins on NaNoWriMo has to be crap -- mine certainly was, although it might be possible to salvage it with a great deal of revision work. I can't imagine how to get that many words written in a month and end up with a comprehensive story, unless you're planning to put another six months of work into more drafts.
It's kind of true. At least, I know my winning one was a load of crap XD I didn't have any ideas til the day before when i was on a bus and drove by a woman in tracksuit bottoms standing by a bus stop talking to a guy in a suit. After that it was just random characters and it sucked.
I actually came up with some ideas on a bus yesterday (yay, me and buses, huh? :-P...perhaps I should base it on buses hahaha)...
Sure, a story about buses! Or, more specifically, a story about people on buses; that might be how the plot for "Speed" came about!
I feel a little guilty over complaining about my story, now: I had an outline and character list all done before the month started, so I was ahead of the game.
Actually there's a whole twisted-serial-killer story in my mind right now (well, I have the part where there's a serial killer. Who is very normal. And goes on buses. And chooses people from them to kill. How does that sound? XD)
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I actually came up with some ideas on a bus yesterday (yay, me and buses, huh? :-P...perhaps I should base it on buses hahaha)...
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I feel a little guilty over complaining about my story, now: I had an outline and character list all done before the month started, so I was ahead of the game.
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