[CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest
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I'm currently at around 32K words with my story Elements of the Field. I'd hoped to have got further by now because I really do want to get another story in as well if I can, but Elements kind of expanded in scope this last week so I'm calling what I'm working on right now volume 1 and there will need to be 3 more volumes after that (it has to be 1 volume or 4 because reasons). I'm still targeting 50K words for volume 1 plus the now 6K words of "fanbook" content I've already got.
My biggest problems currently are a few plot holes that I need to work through, so that might take a few days to sort out, and death flags - I think I have a chapter with too many of them!
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Well, I think I am going to keep my ending—tweaking it a bit—though the criticism probably still fits—I am at risk of putting something hokey and unrealistic in a place that I definitely dont want it. But maybe it will work well enough that it won’t matter. Still have a lot of other things to figure out—and even the stuff that is there is mostly only roughed in —I have a lot of dialogue and some action, but lacking in world-building, transitions and polish. Still, I feel better about it than I did a week ago, though I am not on schedule for finishing on time.
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Well, since this is what brought me out of my writing slumber and created an account, this shall be my first post here.
Haha. It is good to be awake again
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Just over
40k42k43k words in now and the cracks are really beginning to show 🙄 I had to rewrite some chapters because of inconsistencies, a minor plot point is at risk of turning into a MacGuffin, I've realized that I seem to have subconsciously based one of the female characters on my former [redacted for the sake of propriety],and the whole thing is now becoming too unbelievable. Writing pr0n is just soooo much easier![Edit] I've just been catching up on Tearmoon Empire and decided my story is far more believable than some of the things Mia gets up to!
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I was just starting a new story when I heard about this. It might be fun to submit if I end up finishing it.
If I write 5k-10k words a week, I should finish in 10 weeks... So there should be more than enough time at least.
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"Works should be complete stories, as they will be judged only on the submitted text."
Does this mean I have to write a singel light novel volume, that is complete without any second part (like the first Volume in Villainess Level 99 ~I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord)?
Or may I leave much room for a second volume?
And if no, how is it with the rights for future books playing in the same universe or using those charakters?I already completed writing a book playing in the universe of the storry I am writing for this contest and almost completed the second book of it, though I did not approach a publisher with them for now.
So how should I approach the overall feeling of the novel? Is the complete story a "complete for there will never be anything else" or a "complete story that is fun to read and might be continued if there is demand"?
I need to know if I want to get the right pacing! A hundred thousand words is really not that much. -
@Ade It simply means the story you submit needs to end in some manner, even if it's inconclusive or a cliffhanger. If it cuts off arbitrarily, then you may be judged negatively.
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@myskaros Okay, thats the best answer I could hope for. Thank you
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@Ade I guess another way to put it would be "it should be something where if someone reads it, and it turns our you never wrote any more of that universe/story, that the reader wouldn't feel like their time was wasted reading it"
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Woo! Hoo! I finally made it through a scene that was just dreadful to write—I was stuck on it for weeks! It doesn’t read bad though.
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@jazzyjeoff round of applause👏
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@Lily-Garden
Thank you! Thank you! You’re too kind!So, how are things going on your end? Well—I hope.
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@jazzyjeoff it's been hard to find the space to write with all the reading light novels and anime, not to mention all the other stuff I have to do...
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@Lily-Garden Well, good luck—and as long as you enjoy it —keep with it!
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@jazzyjeoff Even if we get hundreds of submissions, I bet there will be hundreds more people will have started but never finish. And then of those hundreds, maybe 10s will be fondly remembered by their authors and years later they will finish the story and self publish or apply to the 13th JNC original light novel contest or something and win.... so many things could end up originating here in the future, I can't wait.
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I'm 47K words in now and I think I've sorted out the inconsistencies, MacGuffins and plot holes, but it's hit a sort of mid-life lull where I can see that nothing much is going to happen for a chapter or three. For my usual storytelling style, that's no problem because the less plot there is, the more PLOT I can have, but trying to keep things safe enough for Auntie Amazon is getting really difficult!
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Just wrote a chapter that was the exact opposite of my painful chapter. I just thought I needed a filler chapter between two big events and ended up creating two characters that I really like and will continue through the story. It is so much fun when something like that just falls out of the sky!
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Alright, 3 weeks in and 16k total words so far. I should hopefully reach my goal of 75k words before the first week of January, which gives me a week or so of wiggle room to do whole-draft edits.
We'll see how it goes, but so far so good.
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Ha! I changed the name of my main character over a month ago and I’m still finding her old name sprinkled throughout my story. Of course, if I was using the most simple word editing program I could just do a find and replace—but I am using Wattpad as my editor. Why? I have a bizarre form of laziness—instead of making the one-time tiny effort required to use the right tool for the job—I use something perfectly awful that makes things needlessly inefficient every-single-day. I might as well just use a manual typewriter—at least that would be romantically ineficient —of course, I am much too lazy to actually find a typewriter…
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Still only at 49K words. 2K in 20 days isn't very promising for finishing by the deadline, but my story seems to have gone beyond mid-life lull and entered mid-life crisis mode now! Actually I've written more than 2K because I realised that the part I've been working on would need to fit in with something from a later volume (if it ever gets written) so I wrote a few pages from volume 4 as well just to avoid a possible retcon later on.
@jazzyjeoff, I used to love my manual typewriter, I gave it away to a charity years ago though otherwise you could have had it :)
