❛ the lazy writers ❜ V2

[TheSongOfTheStars]

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?
Hmm, let's just go with main/semi main characters...
So about 13-14 main characters die 'on screen' so to speak in my one project, but I've killed, mangled, and destroyed countless minor ones.

[Silver Pandorica]

@Ranger and @Wren- Sure thing! I'll be sure to send 'em to you guys as I go along ^^

@Winter- I do hope to publish it someday. That's a huge dream of mine

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?
I don't think I've killed any characters. Just Nathan, but that was just a flashback, not an actual death during the story. You know?

[Simonpet]

Hello! I'd like to join this club. I'm Simonpet, a person who is currently writing several fanfictions which will probably be in progress forever, as well as writing a book.

[Woogwoo Wren]

Hello! I'd like to join this club. I'm Simonpet, a person who is currently writing several fanfictions which will probably be in progress forever, as well as writing a book.

Hey! Welcome! You sound like you'll fit right in. Watch out for carrots. (You too, Free. Man, you are mean to those poor woodchips)

[.Spaceman.]

I've been pretty inactive on here, but I'm planning on doing Nano and I'm very excited! I'm doing the story that I was working on the last camp, which I only got about 500 words done for. (Those 500 words were scrapped and the whole story changed so I'm starting over lmao) I might share snippets but I won't be posting the whole thing online because this is one of my more serious projects that I hope to get published before I graduate^^

@Simonpet - Welcome! Be sure to avoid carrots c:


For those of you who have done Nano, what's the best way to prepare?
Ahh, I just have like a plot outlined and also some character sheets?? Ooh, I also did a basic overview of the world and other little fun facts about the story. Whatever works for you :D

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?
uhhhm. I had counted a long time ago, but let me think... not all were main characters, but I killed off multiple families amounting to several hundred to maybe close to one thousand. And I tend to bring back Felix, but he's probably died 3-5 times tbh. He's basically become an easter egg to see if the reader can spot his cameo.

[TheSongOfTheStars]

*whistles innocently*
Wait, what has Ranger told you?


So... I'm thinking of putting up a fanfiction on here, it'd update maybe, but if anyone wants to like... be an accountability partner would ya pm me? Nothing big, just reminding each other to write or put up a chapter and stuff..

[The Worst Username]

...... I actually had to look up the word Reverend and all I can find are things about churches.... I'm so confused.

Oh yeah--that's because "reverend" means someone who's part of the clergy in a Christian church, oftentimes a pastor. (I definitely get how religions you weren't raised in can be very confusing; I'm embarrassed to say I don't even know who leads a Muslim congregation and what such congregations entail.)

@Bert

If you divide 50k by the 30 days in November, it's about 1,667 words per day. Good luck with Nano!

@Silver

Congratulations on the chapter! Yeah, story theft...that's probably one of the worst things that can happen to an online author. Good luck with keeping up CITR (and those writing memes, holy heck, #3 is the best).

For those of you who have done Nano, what's the best way to prepare?

Oy vey, I don't even know where to start. Ummm...outline everything down to the last scene, keep your outlines on hand, make character development arcs, make character sheets, and stock up on candy in October if your country celebrates Halloween.

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?

I'm actually not all that into killing characters? Probably because I have casts of four people max; everyone else either disappears after a scene, or is only mentioned by the characters and never really appears. So that amounts to me killing...one named character in a three-story series. I need to get with the murder program. I sometimes kill people in one-shots, and thousands/millions die in natural disasters and wars and stuff, but there's not much else.

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[b]Are you doing Nano? What'll your story be about?[/b]

@Simonpet

Heyo, welcome to the echo chamber of reclusive school- and college-age storytellers that we call the Lazy Writers. Do you have any nicknames? (Also, avoid carrots and smoteners.) What's the book about, by the way?

Also hey who wants to read me trying to get out of writer's block by writing some one-shot about a fox/it's actually not so bad for writer's block? just kinda rambly:

The barren trees flash past her, the trail between them opening wide like a great cougar’s maw. She kicks up dust as flecks of snow start to fall from the clouds; perhaps they’ll thicken into a blanket that’ll cover her tracks come morning.
She so badly wants the snow to cover her pawsteps, her little stamps in the dirt. Then, she would be like a shadow, a phantom, gone without a trace, so her captors wouldn’t know whether she ran, whether she sprouted wings and flew, whether the ground split and ate her up. They would simply know that she had gone.
They’re her captors no more. She, little red fox, grandmaster of trickery, bearer of deceit traveling on small black paws, has run. Never again will she be with a roof of concrete over her head. Never again will she be trapped in darkness during daytime. Never again will she cower before one of those disgusting, furless, pink-flesh creatures. Never again.
She races away, the trees thickening around her, the path dwindling into dark shadows and low branches and stabbing underbrush. It’s all for the better; she, little red fox, grandmaster of trickery, can doge such branches and leap over such underbrush. She wears the darkness as a cloak, letting it envelope her, guide her, to freedom.
She’s never been in this place before. Some of the scents are familiar, almost: the smell of rabbits thinned by wintertime, the smell of voles and birds and trees and dirt, but many are new. None of it matters. She is off. She is running. She, little red fox, is free.

*jumps into shame corner*

[Woogwoo Wren]

Are you doing Nano? What'll your story be about?
I don't knoooow. I reaally want to but I just don't know if I have time to with school and exams and everything...It's a month away, I guess. If I work really hard then maybe I can have time to do nano...
If I am going to do Nano, I'm probably not going to write a story. I'll try to finish the one I'm working on I have so much to do send help and work on world building/plot/characters etc. and maybe write some short stories about women from history.

[Aliria]

For those of you who have done Nano, what's the best way to prepare?
It really depends on your writing style. For me, huge amounts of planning usually use up most my excitement for a story and I end up writing less in the end, but for other people, it's really helpful to plan every little detail. Honestly, the only advice I think applies to everyone is that you should always have at least a few vague ideas about what to write so you don't end up staring at a blank page for days before coming up with an idea.

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?
I.. actually can only think of one character I've planned a death for, and I still haven't written his death scene. I basically never reuse characters between stories.

Are you doing Nano? What'll your story be about?
I hope not, but I'm probably going to be dragged into it whatever I do. Nano isn't good for me. I have absolutely no idea what story I'll be writing when I do get dragged into it; it's still a month and a half away! Lately I've been doing a lot more revamping old stories than starting new ones, so I'll probably be doing more of that.

[BucketORandomness]

For those of you who have done Nano, what's the best way to prepare?
Well, I did the camp this July. I'd definitely suggest having a plot outline ready to go, because there will be days when you won't want to write. If you have the plot worked out, you can then go through on those days and write from one point to the next and fix it in later drafts.

How many characters have killed? And have you brought some back to life in another story just to be eventually killed again?
A little morbid, but no. I haven't actually done it. I did have this story planned out that I never actually wrote where a side character was found dead, and later the main characters had to talk to him using someone who could talk to the spirits of the dead, so that was kinda resurrection, but not really.

Are you doing Nano? What'll your story be about?
I don't think I will, for the same reason I did it in the summer. School is problematic, and I'm getting nightly homework that's hard enough to keep up with. If I did, it probably would be a collection of short stories or maybe one long one on a response to a quote out of context or nine. ((If you're ever looking for things to write about, listen in on someone else's conversation long enough to catch just one line, and use that as your starter. It leads to some interesting results!))