"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/13/2015 at 19:49 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/13/2015 at 19:49 • Filed to: None | 4
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national novel writing month. 50k words in 30 days. Many top selling novels have come out of this event. I know as well that magnitudes of crap have been produced. It’s a community thing and I will learn from it.
The working title is ‘compression ’ and it will have quite a bit of automotive content and emotional button pressing inside. There is a serious lack of that in fiction. A good deep story for the car nuts I hope. Set in the rural america area near larger populations in a not-far-away-not-so-dystopic future. We shall see. The goal is further learning of the process to turn an idea into something good and clean enough others want to read and not put down. If it reaches that goal, we shall see about how to distribute it. But really, it’s the one story in my head that lends itself to learning this talent and I already see the path it’s taking itself. It’s a dark ride.
JGrabowMSt
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 20:07 |
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Im thinking of participating as well, but I dont think I could make it. Im going to try and write for an hour minimum every evening...but my topic is difficult. We’ll see what happens...
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 20:07 |
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I'm excited. I'll read it.
Jedidiah
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 21:10 |
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I’ll read it if it involves supercharged Duramaxes
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> Jedidiah
08/13/2015 at 21:23 |
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Well....something along those lines....might be a combination of things. Curious if the actual engine choice will make people ‘close the book’ and throw it away. Are there that serious of fan boys who would ditch a good story based on that? I really wonder some times.
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Grindintosecond
> JGrabowMSt
08/13/2015 at 21:30 |
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1667 words a day every day. Honestly, if you can stick to a routine you could do it. King writes for only 4 hours a day. When I did that, I discovered that trying to go more is just fatiguing and you lose the edge of creativity and logic...and usually after 4 hours I have 2,000 words or something especially if i was really on fire. Remember thats just to a first daraft, not a finished revised and edited story. That’s for later. this is to just hammer out a story.
My subject is tough as well on one half, and that’s the part that will make it or break it. I need to consult a clinical psychologist for it too to get it right. I hate stories that don’t know what they’re talking about.
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JGrabowMSt
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 21:40 |
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Im thinking of writing about the long road of living with someone else with PTSD. We’ll see if I can keep it going for a full month.
I was almost an english major, writing comes naturally to me, but I need the motivation. We’ll certainly find out.
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Jedidiah
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 21:45 |
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You’d be surprised how deeply routed their brand loyalty goes.
Everyone is guilty of favoritism. My first love is Oldsmobile, but I’d still rock plenty of Fords.
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Grindintosecond
> JGrabowMSt
08/13/2015 at 21:45 |
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My motivation has been stories no one else is writing that I want to read.
I’ve been reading about that in time periods. Another project of mine has a character coming home from WW1 fighting for the Canadian CEF, before America entered the war...so he starts suffering from PTSD (then: shell shock) and can’t tell anyone why or he will lose his citizenship for doing what he did. Also the treatment then was ‘shaming’. great. Families shipped their disgracement off to a facility or if they had money would get treatment, hidden away.. There wasnt any veterans assistance group until AFTER WW1: The American Legion ... Terrible stuff but that’s just background to him while hes dealing with it, getting caught up in the actual story.
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> Jedidiah
08/13/2015 at 21:48 |
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As long as they can appreciate what’s going on, that’s all I want. The protagonist isn’t a fanboy, it’s just what he has to work with from a what will be 80 year old truck from his grandfather.
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Jedidiah
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 21:51 |
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I wouldn’t be into Oldsmobiles if it wasn’t for my dad, so that’s where my favoritism comes from.
The family heritage is a big deal for some cars/owners.
Most people I think on Oppo will be able to appreciate the story. People that browse other forums, not so much.
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JGrabowMSt
> Grindintosecond
08/13/2015 at 21:55 |
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We should keep in touch, our stories will have plenty of parallels.
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> JGrabowMSt
08/13/2015 at 23:02 |
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shhh....(nanowrimo, writersdigest, wordpress: i’m Rob40, i just started a second blog- roughdrift -click on the about tab, its been fun so far.) the November piece is the compression story, the WW1-era piece comes after when i learn quite a bit more on the process of generating a concept from start to finish.
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JGrabowMSt
> Grindintosecond
08/14/2015 at 00:16 |
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Ill check it out when I have free time hopefully tomorrow. Easiest way to reach me is email actually [username] @ gmail. I have a great deal of experience with ptsd (my girlfriend has it), but its not combat related. I do know a number of vets, but most are largely unaffected, only a couple ever talk about it, but its certainly a very broad topic though, causes, triggers, how it affects people...my reasoning for trying to write it all down is simply an awareness thing. Im not shy about talking about how it affects me, but I think many people out there who dont suffer from it, but are close to someone who does, are often very confused about how to handle things. I dont want to get too far into it just typing away on mobile, but its a really important topic, and I saw a law and order episode today that just reinforced how badly its handled, especially by people who dont want to believe that truly horrible things happened, or they just arent able to recognize a cry for help.
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Grindintosecond
> JGrabowMSt
08/14/2015 at 21:08 |
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Have you read King’s “on writing” memoir? It’s frankly wonderful. My father, who is NOT in any way a king fan, gave it to all of his new journalists in the newsroom. It’s that good on looking at writing. first 100 pages are about him growing up. Last 50 or so are on the accident with a truck. Middle is gold.
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JGrabowMSt
> Grindintosecond
08/14/2015 at 22:12 |
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I haven’t, but I think i’m going to look for it tonight.
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> JGrabowMSt
08/15/2015 at 18:23 |
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its a great read. great page turner. I’m going to look for some George V. Higgins books now just because of what he said about great metaphors. “It was darker than a carload of assholes.”
He hates terrible and tame things so this makes him smile aparently. I start-stop laughed for an hour.