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Ablean Buckslinger	Michael's NaNoWriMo	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4433 (10/28/09 00:09:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I wrote this synopsis: The usual suspects were busy tonight. Eccentric Internet millionaire Jonathan Wheelock has invited some guests to his beautiful country home. The evening all seems to be going swimmingly, until his body is found in the wine cellar. The only clues are a broken webcam and a missing flashdrive. The suspects? Everybody in the house. Was it Michael Irving, the death-obsessed journalist? Greg Frost, film producer in search of his next big hit? Dai Senft, political speechwriter for the German government? Jack Corcoran, young fashion designer with a dark secret? Martha Gorman, the education minister who's just gone through a messy divorce? Or maybe Jane Couch, Jon's put-upon chef who is stuck working long hours ... again? The clock is ticking. Notes for geekery: 1. "The usual suspects were busy tonight" refers to the suspects in the board game Cluedo (Clue). It's always them, but not tonight. Then again, having said that... 2. The suspects surnames are translatable back again ... Irving means "green water", Senft means "mustard seller", Gorman means "little blue one", etc, etc I've never written a murder mystery before but I'm just going to get stuck in and not think too hard about it at first. I don't think I'll even know who did it until nearer the end of the month. Thoughts and opinions are appreciated. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt
CabbyHat		#1	[-]
Posts: 152 (10/28/09 03:11:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Interesting. I think it could be a lot of fun writing a murder mystery like that, just having fun and discovering along with the characters. Of course, I've never written a murder mystery either. Your friendly neighbourhood Canadian!
WhiteWyvern		#2	[-]
Posts: 227 (10/28/09 18:42:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sounds cool, can't wait to read it... I've never written anything except fantasy, but going in make sure each has a motive, time, and something hidden to make them all seem suspicious.
Ablean Buckslinger		#3	[-]
Posts: 4438 (10/31/09 23:38:29) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE! Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt
Naito		#4	[-]
Posts: 10 (11/01/09 01:09:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ablean Buckslinger wrote: I THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE! Quick! Call an ambulance!
Ablean Buckslinger		#5	[-]
Posts: 4439 (11/01/09 02:16:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's OK, I got out 1,718 words in just under an hour. That's me done for the day. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt
Lord DragonFang		#6	[-]
Posts: 2076 (11/02/09 01:43:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahh, nothing like a good old murder mystery to start your month of writing. Keep it up, Ablean!
Ablean Buckslinger		#7	[-]
Posts: 4447 (11/05/09 14:00:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just hit the 9,000 mark a day earlier than scheduled, so feeling really good about that! Just introducing the final suspect as he recieves his invitation to the dinner party. I'm actually quite impressed by how much sense this is all making. I have motives down for everyone and everything ... why Jonathan invites who he invites, why they all attend, why they'd all want him dead... Borrowing from Lost and Heroes, etc, I've had many of the characters backstories link up, as in they've been in places at the same time as one another, just never known. A couple of them have met. And I'm also busy sticking with the Cluedo colour theme of suspects ... red, purple, green, white, blue and yellow, with the victim in black. I intend to enter a load of exposition about colour psychology too over the dinner table before the murder. I'm just worried I'm going to run out of story before I reach 50,000 words. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt
Qwertyman		#8	[-]
Posts: 222 (11/05/09 14:26:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I suppose if they find out whodunnit before 50,000 words, you could always play the Chthulhu card. Y'know, the inspector does his big speech then in one last-ditch attempt of freedom the killer summons up Chthulhu to destroy all humanity.
Ablean Buckslinger		#9	[-]
Posts: 4464 (11/20/09 14:50:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	OK, so here's the thing. I will not be able to get 50,000 words in the next 9 days, I feel far too far behind thanks to a combination of sleep, social life, work and, yes, a little bit of laziness. But I'm actually OK about the whole thing. NaNoWriMo got me writing again, something I've barely done since graduating, and that has made it all worthwhile! I will be continuing this novel but at my own, slower pace and I will very probably join in again next year too, and see if I can do any better. I'll still put my final word count up at the end of the month, but I'm taking things slower. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt
CRtheMighty		#10	[-]
Posts: 1268 (11/21/09 23:12:03) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I know quite where you're coming from, Bean. I'm way behind myself, for many of the reasons you've mentioned, and if I hit 50k by the 30th it'll be a miracle. But I also have gotten back to writing, which like you I hadn't done in ages. It is great, isn't it? If you try to eat a penguin, turn to page 6.
Ablean Buckslinger		#11	[-]
Posts: 4466 (11/22/09 06:27:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It is, I remembered why I started doing it all in the first place. I've got lots of ideas again now, I'm gonna get started on some good stuff. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do. Of course, there's strength in numbers, but there's strength in sharp weaponry too... I'm a social networking slut. Come join me! Facebook --- MySpace --- LiveJournal --- Twitter --- Tumblr --- YouTube --- DailyBooth --- deviantArt

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