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submitted by Vee R., age 11, New York, NY
(April 4, 2013 - 8:49 pm)
(April 4, 2013 - 8:49 pm)
Hello, fellow New Yorker!
I'm writing a fantasy for Camp Nano, which is really a bunch of random mishmashed fantasy.
(April 5, 2013 - 4:09 pm)
Cool. I am writing a poem for my school newspaper. Here it is:
Everyday I'm watching, watching
Waiting for my gullible prey
Everyday I'm waiting, waiting
I'm the lion, and that I'll stay!
What do you think? Anything I could improve?
(April 7, 2013 - 1:11 pm)
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(April 5, 2013 - 4:10 pm)
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(April 5, 2013 - 4:11 pm)
I'm writing a story about an artist who doesn't want to paint anymore. I need something that will get him out of his depression. What??? Any ideas?
(April 5, 2013 - 4:16 pm)
@ Gollum; My plot is taking no real direction, and has no personality as of currently. Ergh!
Anyway, yeah, mine's fantasy too, though about Peter Pan.
@ Lillie; Neat idea! Hmm. Life changing experiences... You could go off on a Narnia syndrome, and have him enter sum fantastical world. Or one day, he just randomly paints something, and its magic, and he can step into the painting.
Anyhoot. Anything goes in a story, unless you want it specifically to be realistic. So, really, reach into the most ridiculous things in your imagination, and your bound to find something. Heck, I made up an exploding bed out of a bomb! (Teresa can back me up on that). So really, anything goes. Just remember that.
And now my long, probably clique "advice post" is done. You may now laugh if you have the unexplainable urge.
(April 7, 2013 - 5:41 pm)
Yes, she did. If you want to see the whole story go to Story Chain on Inkwell.
(April 9, 2013 - 3:04 pm)
If it must stay within the realms of realfic, I suggest a foster child forced upon him/her or somesuch thing. If not, mutant pegasi!
Yava: expm.
--L
(April 7, 2013 - 6:01 pm)
1. He somehow ends up in an art museam or an art museam tour, and realizes what a contribution that he's making to society.
2. He volunteers to help with a community project, and realizes what a contribution that he's making to society.
3. An adorable admiring little girl shows him a painting that he inspired her to make, and he is in turn re-inspired to paint.
or
4. He goes on a wildly fantastical adventure in which, at the end, he has to save the world by making a fine painting.
5. In a dream, a mysterious figure shows him how powerful and life-changing art is.
6. He wakes up the next morning, seeing all the world as a painting. The flowers and hillsides, mountains and valleys, and cities and farms. Turns out, this was a dream too, and he wakes op with a multitude of paintings in his head, enough to last him his entire life, and with his dying breath, he paints the last stroke of his last painting.
How's that?
(April 7, 2013 - 7:20 pm)
He falls off a cliff and a magical flying paintbrush saves him.
(April 10, 2013 - 5:06 pm)
I am writing a NaNo! I recently wrote a very amusing line:
"My house!"
"Not anymore..."
It had been destroyed by supervillains toting entertaining weapons. Because why not.
Inicidentally, I need ideas for amusing powers for people to have. Powers that people don't usually think of and would usually be written off as ridiculous. Like the power to summon chairs from nowhere, a la Brian Brianson (do not ask about the name).
(April 7, 2013 - 6:13 pm)
To be able to turn steel into wood.
(April 8, 2013 - 5:16 pm)
Okay, first, mutant pegusi are just plain awsome.
Second, ridiculous superpowers... I suggest writing Theo through Nano, as this is probably right up his/her alley. As for my suggestions: Can summon any sort of hat for any occasion, summon children's storybook characters for advice (like Tigger!), can sing melodious opera (if there is such a thing), and turn himself pink (really, I have no idea where that just came from). Random things... Ooh! There's one! Can make random things appear.
(April 8, 2013 - 9:23 pm)
L, I shall partically steal this idea for my own nano and BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!! Hmm... what would be a random, useless power that would freak people out???
Gah, I can't think of anything super random that would really work with my story, so if your hair is an unnatural shade of yellow, you can talk to either small rodents, plants, or immediate objects.
(April 10, 2013 - 5:21 pm)
Hi. So. Right now my nano is so boring, I could die.
@Vee R, does authoring count graphic novels in your opinion?
(April 9, 2013 - 8:25 pm)