about NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo

up untill now I thought I would probalby not even try to write a novel on the novel writing month, but I just recently thought. why not? I don't have to actually publish it and I don't have to try to win anything, it's novel writing month and I usually whine myself about not having deadlines to inspire and force me to write. This time I would have, a month.
Now today is kinda bad idea to get an idea. I mean this is exactly what happened with one contest I was going to be part of. I had to write a novel and I had certain amount of months time. The idea what I could write came when I had week left to send it out. So you people probably guess what happened. I can't write a novel in a week

So I have time today to get the idea and kinda plan it out and tomorrow I should start writing it. (Instead I am writing a blog post about my struggle how sad) Anyway!

I am probably going to start working so that I'll have some kind of idea what I am writing tomorrow morning. I hope you guys are just as excited as I am. :) Good luck with your writings and have pleasing moments while writing, weather you are writing for NaNoWriMo.

-Nemesismerri (with once again very short posts)

Quick update

NemesisMerri's random update nro 1

, on wensday and on saturday. I am not quiteWhatsup guys? I'm back. But only for a little while I'm afraid, because I am going to be a little busy with school work,but I'll try to do something else. I might actually plan these posts.

Anyway something important to say the NaNoWriMo is comming soon. Are you people exited?

Now I don't remeber if I already said this but I am actually not taking part in that contest. I will continue to study writing an improve it. And perhaps some year I feel like I am ready to write a novel in 30 days. But November is going to be celebrated. I am going to probably post few tips everyday. Even though the posts might be random and small, but I'll try to come up with something you can read and smile about while working on your novel.

But sweet peas on sunday is the first of November and I am thrilled. Because also Christmas is coming. Thought I'll have to start saving to few christmas presents. It's coming too soon. I am not prepared.

Now let me tell you a random fact about November. In Finnish it is marraskuu. Marras is designation for phenomenon and omens about death. Marras can mean a soul of the dead, a soon dying person or an omen of death, sometimes they are nether world creatures resembling goblins.

So if that is not isnpiring then I don't know what is. Okay, so these random facts I am bringin up. Actually that inspired me a lot.

Also I found another death omen creature named Huu. It is actually from swedish but is is really interesting. So it is an omen before someones death, or a ghost who soon after their death creates bruises or other marks on the skin of their next of kin. And they are called Huubites.

So this is something about mythology and I am probably looking into it and I am going to write about them. I wonder if something will actually come of it. I'll continue with the death theme I promise. I have things to say about them.
 And few things I am also going to say about Finnsih mythology. It inspires me

NM's creating a story pt. 1

Creating a story (style Nemesismerri)

First of all yes I have too many projekts going on. Trust me I know, I should write challenges, and the book reviews (I'm sorry I'm slow) And other stuff. But I desided that since I got over my art block I could start to work on one of my short stories. Or it might turn into novella, or novel. I don't know. But I wanted to give you guys tips how to actually get started to write a book. A road to actually publishing something. (it's gonna be long so this is why I have the part one) And this is a long process, and don't cut anything away compleately. I mean that there are the points like planing, first draft, second draft, other drafts, "final" draft, editing. So don't just start writing straight away without a plan the final draft and cut the drafts and editing and planing. You can try to edit less if you prefer to be faster, but do edit your work.

Now let me just say that the final part, publishing ain't gonna be easy. And it isn't going to be out anytime soon, because I am only at the first part. Planing.

1) Have an idea. You can get it from pictures, music, movies, quotes, other writing, from the text in popcorn bags, from dreams, or from observing people.
 Sometimes it is difficult, but that's why probably everyone who blogs about writing, talk about writing, authors, writers, novelists, and anyone who knows something about writing will tell you to keep a notebok or something similar with you, all the time.
My problem is that I know when my inspiration will stricke but I am never prepared fro some reason. Usually I get tons of ideas in the midnight. But sometimes I have my phone and I can write them up. But if you don't have battery (though nowadays you can in some trains charge your phone so that should not be a problem) you can write on anything. just write your ideas up.

My idea is from the ten book title challenge, actually I had a difficulty to deside which one I should pick so i asked from the most important person of the world (well my world) (and no I did not ask myself). And he chose the hunting the void for me. So I'll write that.

The second part is difficult for me, because I am perfectionist in writing, I want the plans to be perfect and the final to be perfect, because I have read so many awesome books that are perfect. Which is kinda dumb, because I know the books have been through editing rewriting and rewriting and countles of months or years planing.

2) Anyone ever heard of snowflake method. Yeah well it's on planing bethod of some sort. So Look it up, here. And in writing communities people talk about lot of different ways to plan a novel or a story. And for example today I have read three articles of the snowflake method from one site. And the fourth one from different site.
Few tips in planing it. Close your computer, close the TV and hide your phone. If you have to keep a track of time, get something little more disinteresting, like a regular clock, or alarm clock. Hide any distracktions and well take a comfortable place and plan. I am going to use snowflake planing method for this one.

1. write one sentence summary of the novel. Young scientist visits a viruslab and gets stuck there with supernatural beign.
2. Write an entire paragraph. From where it begins to where it ends. Now I am not very good at this and I am probably going to keep it as a secret what happens. 

Now this is as far as I am going in this part. But I'll see you as soon as possible in the next part.
-Nemesismerri

Theme Day

Theme of the day

once again this picture, I'm probably using it for the whole week

 

NOw I am not quite sure what's with me and these theme days but they make me happy, so I suppose I'll come up with something for every darn day. Seriously though if I succeed at that, it's a surprise.

Now people, I don't throw dices and just randomly pick a theme, I follow my instincts. So don't worry I got this.

Today's theme is story outlines and plots. (Why? because I need to actually tell my mind that to day you will write clean your story outlines, perhaps several of them, and work on the plot and subplots.

I have read several articles on several blogs about subplots, but I find it hard to attach any subplots to my main plot. But today I kinda feel like I could do it and work on the plot.

Now I'll try to kinda give you an example. I'll just think of my failed stories and the plots. Okay. I used to have this sci-fi story (I am not really good at sci-fi) that I had my dream about. And it was about three girls from another planet who had a mission on a different planet in a country named Mostraqua. (I wonder how I came up this name) And they needed to save tha country from some dark forces that was stealing light, there was at that time only one place with light. Okay and the get a young priest student or something like that to help them. And they tried to return the light to Mostraqua. Well the subplot idea that I had was to make one of the girls fall in love with the priest student and stuff like that. Another subplot idea could have been that in the small village that had light in a wine store there was a helper of the dark force. Actually at one point in the wine store Roneta is offered a drink and they said that it was pepper coffee. Now in my original story line it was just wine but there could have been poison mix. And then Ferlyen (the priest student) would have been worrying and stuff. Oh and about that scene since it is important one glumsy subplot could be Roneta making pepper coffee, jk. (I should actually try it out)

But yeah today's theme is plots and out lines, and now that I have told my own example, I probably should be working on my plot. (probably going to write.)

Dead poets society

About movies: Dead poets society

So as I told I did watch the dead poets society. I loved it, it was awesome. It was inspring, it made poems to seem easy.   But though today isn't a poem day anymore, I thought about writing a few ones today.

It was awesome, and I'd just like to talk about it but I don't want to spoil it. Well I recommend it. It's fantastic. And it is the reason why I woke up today cranky. ( I had to go to school) I stayd up for too long watching it. So I've desided that if I have school or anything important the next day I won't stay up too long writing and stuff, because it always means I am going to wake up cranky.

Well I try to not to spoil it but I must say that, in the end some thing tragic happened. Surprisingly I didn't cry. (unlike while watching V for Vendetta) But in the end I think it was kinda happy ending. Yeah it definetly was a happy ending in it own ways.

Now go watch it. Please :) It's awesome. And even if you don't like it you know what not to watch. But there are some really cool actors. Robin Williams and Kurtwood Smith.

So this post isn't that long, sorry about that.
-Nemesismerri

Theme day: poetry

Poems and stuff

I'm sorry for the small texts but the octopus and the ninja should make it up

 

I have been talking about this subject before. One of my posts was almost compleately about poems and poetry. I have writen an essay about poetry, but in the end I don't write that many poems. But still. Todays theme is poetry for some odd reason.
I'd like to announce a poetry theme day.
So people, today take sometime to live in the moment and write a poem for it. Or if you just happen to find an inspiration in a elevator then sure go ahead and write it there. My own poem for today is about nature, because of my dear sister who is quite serious about global warming and such. So I'll write a poem for it and start using less electricity and what ever things are right now on the door of our fridge.

slowly but surely
leaves and plants
wither away
ground is cold
colors are gone 
but still within me
one faint hope lives
still at least once
I shall see the spring

but what if one year
it won't come back
what if we won't reach the May
because of our ignorance
we lose this all
the warmth, the colors
the flowers, it all
the earth, and ourselves.

My sister though has a point. We have this one planet and we're just gonna throw this away?
Anyway as you can see I am not a good poet. I know how to write poems about love, but not really about nature. Oh well, sometimes I'll just have to step out of my comfort zone.

Actually it would be more accurate to say that this day is for poems and our dear nature.

Any final words? yes actually I have. today I have a movie recomendation, and I'm gonna tell about how I have been. Once again. :) Movie recomendation: Dead poets society. (I'm gonna watch it today and perhaps you could too)
More info, I might just start writing on wattpad if any of you are familiar. So soon enough there might be an account named Nemesismerri. :)
And yesterday I didn't write again :'( I'm slipping from my goal but it's all because my sims was working. I'll try to write today.
-Nemesismerri

Gathering your thoughts pt. 1

Mind Maps 

So I want to talk about the important way of gathering your thoughts when writing a book, or writing. (Or just gathering your thoughts (this also makes studying easier)) And finally some pictures in my explanations. I'm trying to add more of them, but it's sometimes difficult. And this is my first part of gathering thoughts, because there are several more ways to gather your thoughts. Some of them I have already spoken of. :)

So you can do mindmaps in many ways. I'm gonna show how.

Paint etc

in other words drawing on computer. I myself use Krita, but really, gimp, paint, sai, anything is fine. And also I use wacom drawing tablet, but let me just say, it doesn't have to be wacom, and it doesn't have to be drawing tablet. Obviously. But for example here is my beautiful mind map.

are you an author? find out

see? doesn't have to be fancy. And see those beautiful cute drawings there. :) So simple.
And with this mind map you can look if you can be an author :) JK, authors are made of will of being an author. But those things are useful.

Draw

you think using computer is hard and takes time? Yeah me too. So I usually just draw them like people used to do few years back. And it would be best to draw these on a paper without rows or squares. But I'm too lazy often to find any clean paper so my mind maps are a mess.

oh it's not the squares that make my mind maps look like a mess, it's just me

Loving the quality? me too :)
I'm sorry. But you get the point.
That's my mind map of one of my main characters. And surprise surprise it's from Freaks and demons
Yeah it's about Sariel-Azrael. But it's writen in Finnish so unless you know the language, you can't get much spoilers. (If I even ever finish my book)

So heres this style.

Using programs 

I think you can use libre office draw.You might have different program than libreoffice (like openoffice) but the idea is the same. If you know what you are doing it's super fun and super easy.
If you don't find any program to do this with. No worries. you can do it online. Google Drive. And then create a new drawing. I think I could sometimes do a blog post about using this method. With instructions how to do it. And pictures with friendly guiding red lines.

that's me

Yeah well here you go. And as you can see, I added some extra things not needed in here.

-Nemesismerri

Theme Day: Fanfic day

Theme day

So I feel like writing but obviously I can't come up with much to write to my current projekt Freaks and demons which I have mentoined in a few of my past posts. So I thought that I should write something compleately different and work on that project later today.(I didn't write it yesterday and I may have to delete scenes so today I better write a lot.)

This is Freaks and demons. sorry for the camera quality

Fan Fic theme

Today I thought about writing a fanfic, I'm not going to publish it because I am going to just write with the flow. It's going to be complete and utter nonsense, but it's fine. Trying to get rid of a writer's block requires sometimes utter nonsense. Writers have to write sometimes complete rubbish. And it's getting my imaginative muscle warmed up and perhaps I even end up writing few pages of my current projekt. (Or start another)

So people who are reading this, feel free to write nonsense it's fine. Just for once write without any red pens, don't edit, don't think, just write. Don't care if it's crazy. Sometimes it has to be. Don't care if other people wouldn't like it. They don't have to read. Not every piece of work has to be perfekt. Just write like I do.

Today's theme could be fanfics, but mainly the theme is to just write without minding your inside head editor. Writing without stress.

oh the quality

Just write paragraph after paragraph. Sentence after sentence. Word after word.
Just write. If you dare, you can write anything.

I wanted to add one comic I was drawing about the editor inside our heads but my krita stopped working and well you can see my camera quality. There's some scratchs on the lens. I should stick to taking pictures with my web camera.

12-Day writing challenge pt. 2

writing challenge day 2: character

Alrighty So todays challenge is to create a character. With personality traits from someone I love. And appearance from someone I don't care for.

So this one I won't probably do any differently than the challenge says.

So here comes the character
Name: Henry
age: 16
sex: male
Personality: loves to work out, energic, doesn't like studying, happy and positive, a bit lazy, stubborn, lovey-dovey, artistic, social
appearance: lightbrown short hair, grey eyes, quite tall little less than 185 cm. (sorry for people in USA, I don't know how many icnhes that is (if that even was the unit of measure you used T-T))quite muscular.

I don't know. This person I don't really care for, I don't remeber what he looks like.

And about my Writing project: I just couldn't write yesterday. Well I wrote few lines, but I think I will have to delete the scene I am writing right now. It is compleately irrelevant. I could try to think what to do with that scene but other wise I'll have to delete that scene.Today I'll try to write something else

Freaks and demons

Freaks and demons facts

Here's some facts about one of my stories that you might not know.

-I have been planing and editing the plot for over two years.
-the main character was created with my friend.
-I have started writing the raw version, I'm on the tenth page now
- originally Sazra was normal demon and had never been to hell.
- There are 4 languages at the moment in use in the story. English, Angel language, Hell language and death language.
-This is my 14th time writing this story.
-once I wrote it from the point of view of Raphael.
-It has few different worlds. Purgatory, Heaven, Hell, earth and afterlife
-there's probably going to be sequels
-I have too many characters in that story


So I am going to be using a lot of examples from this story in my future posts when I talk about creating the story world. And so on.

P.S. random info. on my course of mother tounge and literature I have to read a book about another culture. And I chose A Thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini. I recomend it. So if you have time. read it. I have the Finnish translation but it was absolutely briliant. And I loved it the first time I read it.

Carry your thought with you

Carry your thoughts

Maybe you've guessed it, I'm talking about cute, small notebooks which you can easily carry around. Or a recording device
if you prefer that. But as a writer I prefer notebook, because writing.Though recording is easier and faster.

Notebooks

the notebook I am using

 So on the left you can see my beloved notebook and two pencils poorly set on the notebook to create more writer like feeling.
Random info about it: the notebook and the red ballpoint pen are from Germany, I bought them from the airport of frankfurt. It is not required ofcourse to buy expencive pens and pencils and notebooks from airports. The situation was unfortunate. I had to wait about six hours for my flight back to Helsinki-Vantaa. And I was struck by amazing ideas and I needed to buy a notebook to write them up. And I went to a bookstore where I bought them. So expensive.
The pink propelling pencil was bought from Japan. Because While I was there I lost my ballpoint pen and I needed to write.


The point is that notebooks are kinda usefull. If they are small enough, you can fit them in your pocket. And your handwrighting is seen. And you can draw on it. It might note be the fastest way to gather your thoughts with you but it is one creative way.

As you can see on the right. I have used highlight pens to highlight certain types of ideas. On green

are character ideas. For example One green highlighted text says Eva. Eva is 10 years old girl perhaps around time Jesus was alive. And her family was posessed by demons. (I don't know why everything I write has to be something with demons.)
 On yellow there are random elements for story. On yellow highlight text says knife hidden inside a sleeve.
And pink highlight are something I should do.
For example do some research on religions.

Recording devices

It's a phone actually

 I don't have much info about recording devices but I sometimes use Audacity to record my thoughts and to see if theres any useful crap there. Most of the time, there is not. But it is a quick way to record ideas which might be hard to put into words. Thankfully for writers many phones have now recording device thingy. :)

Recording device versus notebook

recording device                                                notebook  

pros                                                        

* tone of voice                                                     * handwriting 
* quick                                                                 * color use          
* explaining can be longer                                  *writing (like writers do)

cons                                                      

  *surrounding noises                                           *takes time 

Thank you once again.

I finally had some pictures in this post. Thank god.

-Nemesismerri                       

12-day writing challenge

12-Day writing challenge: part one

So I found this awesome writing exercise and thought that maybe I could do it actually and publish it online. Since I have really been lazy to post anything here, and there's not many book reviews yet. So I did the first part today. And I am going to do a little bit more than that. If you want to check the exercise out you can find it here

Day 1: write 10 potential book titles of books you'd like to write.
Now I am also going to tell a little bit about the story of the book I'd write.
Also I am writing the raw version of one of these book titles.
1. Freaks and Demons
     Tells about a young demon lord who was killed and sent to purgatory. There he was taken to heaven as a prisoner because of fighting in the purgatory, and after spending a while there he tragically falls in love with one of the archangels.
2. Apocalyptic Chronicles
    Once the apocalpyse has begun life gets harder, not only because of the zombies wondering around, but because of the so called fantasy creatures roaming the earth. One day Riia is in a train that is one of the only working trains in the world, it gets into an accident and slides of the rails. She is saved by a demon. This mysterious demon keeps bumping into Riia on her survival trip. and so on
3.Nightmares
    Maizi at the age of 16 fell ill. The doctors noticed an odd bacteria but noticed also it didn't do anything really. It didn't cause any problems. But Maizi notices a difference, while she is asleep she enters a dream world, and can see nightmares and dreams, as humanoid creatures.She meets a certain nightmare who seems to know a bit more than normal nightmare would about Maizi.
4. pain of unknown familiarity
    Maria has amneisa, and she has developed a habit to write things to remeber in her notebook which she always keeps with her. One morning she wakes up and sees one page torn from her notebook on her blanket. She picks it up and it reads "Don't trust Samantha". Soon after that someone knocks on her door and says " Hi Maria! It's Samantha"
5. Fiance of hell
   Merric is 18 years old young man who was at the age of five hurt so badly his left leg was amputated. He learnt how to make prothesis and he begun to desing prothesis. One day he meets another boy who he helps to steal back a gem, they are caught and just when he thinks it's over the boy reveals his secret.
6.hated by my sin
   David Mason is 19 years old and ever since falling into an old well at the age of 8 he has been able to see ghosts of dead people. Sometimes he finds it difficult to see which people are dead and which ones alive. He drinks a lot so people would dismiss his odd behaviour as a drunken mans behaviour. One day after once again thinking about suicide he decides to go and talk to a doctor about it. And he goes and registers himself into a mental asylum. David only realises how much in trouble he is when on a phone his sister tells him that that mental sylum has been shut down since there was a huge fire there which killed many people few decades ago. 
7. hunting the void
    21 years old scientist Davy Lozé has the opportunity to visit a virus lab. He takes the opportunity. In the middle of his visit, an emergensy shuts all of them inside the lab. Davy helps the eployees of the lab to take care of the situation by going to look for a girl who has escaped his room. She was there as a subjct and when Davy finds her she seems to have obtained some abilities that come in handy when situation gets out of hand, and mysterious steps without a material figure start following them.
8. Don't look out during the fullmoon
    22 years old clinic psychology Manda Payan has arrived to her new job in mental hospital. She was called there to work on a young ten years old boy who apparently had some symptombs of psychosis. When Manda is talking to him an emergency alarm starts rining and the boy starts panicing and asks Manda to take him to the first floor. The only get to the stairs when the boy hears steps from the stairs and then asks Manda if they could get back to his room. Manda agrees. They both hear steps from the hallway and three creepy knocks on the door, and Manda is sure that it is not anyone working in the hospital.
9. vision of hell
    during the many years of wondering, Dexter has the chance to visit hell. He has been seeing dreams about it. Quick flashes, but still doesn't know what's it really like. Is it worth checking out. Leave all this behind and go to hell and see tortured souls, and the demons. 
10. angels of the forest
     One day 17 years old Carly is out a bit later than she usually is. As she is walking from her friends house to her own,she scents a horrific smell. She wants to find out what it is and then drifts off from her path towards the forest near her home. As the stink gets stronger it gets harder for Carly to breath. She walks in the forest and before she sees three things. A river, a fire and a strange person facing their back towards her. Carly gets suddenly chills and runs back to her home, fearing the stranger saw her. As she got to her home she realized nothing had followed her. Only thing she remebers is that horrific stink, and few things about the stranger. When things get stranger Carly begins to investigate herself.

So here is my list. Now if you really wanted me to write any of these, just say so. I might as well strat working on them. And if any of them peaked your interest, just wait. I am probably going to write more about these stories.
As for my daily goal of writing the raw version of one of my stories. (it's one of the stories above)
It's going great. I started it on tuesday and to day is saturday. I'm writing this in the morning so today I still haven't writen it, but yeasterday I reached the tenth page. So you can see I usually write a little bit more than one page.
  One more info! Today I will be telling more about one of these stories, probably starting from the first one. And tomorrow I will publish another challenge.

Cya -Nemesismerri 

Writer's block

About Writer's block 

Oh wouldn't all the writers just love if this disease didn't bother us no longer. But no, it's still there and all the writers are fighting to over come this. 
First of all, I haven't updated my blog in a while and I have to say I am really sorry for being so lazy. But this update, this post is inspired by writer's block so you can thank it.
Second of all, I have finally started actually working on my novel. I am writing the raw version on paper and I desided that I write one page everyday (at least). I started this on tuesday just before midnight. I wrote the first page, and on wensday I wrote almost three pages. But today I just can't write. It might be because the scene is stuck, or because I am not inspired but I desided to (once again) look for help from internet. I collected some tips and I realised that some tips wouldn't help me. Why? because I didn't have problem with comeing up with something to write.
One tip was to write, and that's basically why I am writing this blog post.

    Now there are several types of writer's blog but the solutions are different. A bit.
1. WRITE! wheter it's your inspiration that's gone, or that you don't know what to write or you don't feel like writing, it is certainly not getting better by surfing the internet, playing online games or lying in your bed and thinking "what should I write next" just write something, anything is fine.

If your story is stuck, you need to unstuck it. 
think about the scene you are writing. Where do you want it to go? Why does that scene exist? Is it good like that or should you change it or just remove it? You need to know what is supposed to happen in that scene.

Start writing another part. A part you know you are enthusiastic to write, and can't just wait to write. Write that, because in your sleep your brain might just give you inspiration and solutions to other scenes that are stuck. And if you get to the writing part, you might just figure out how to get your scene going again. 

If you don't know what to write, figure it out.
use prompts from internet or ask you friends. Or just go through random book and pick a paragraph or a word and write about that. 

Do something creative. Paint, dance, draw or write different type of text. A poem? or perhaps a monolog? jourunal? review? blog post?

freewrite, then pick random word or paragraph or something from the text and write about that. 

Go to sleep, or drink.

You have problem with one character's appearance or past or personality

close your eyes, imagine that you have invited that person to some situation you like. Think about how that character feels about the situation, how does he/she talk to you. What does he look like, and what does he tell you, and what he keeps hidden from you. If some certain question is bothering, ask them. (for example my character whose name I unfortunately cannot recall (it started with letter A) I invited him over for teapart, very childish teaparty, he kinda felt awkward about it but yeah. I figured out his nature.)

You just can't write

try exercising, or dancing. Just keep moving and don't stop. imagination can be thought as a muscle. You don't try to run marathon without warming up and stretching your muscles first. (Well I might be stupid enough to try and run a marathon without warming up.) By doing exercises you get warmed up and perhaps your imagination is now ready to the actual performance. 

speak, record it if you can't write it. Or call your friend and talk about something. Just use words. 

Some other tips.

1. read words from dictionary.
2. read synonyms for familiar words
3. read anthonyms for familiar words
4. read
5. read newspaper events and rewrite them from character perspective
6. put "writing" on google images and want to write.
7.be crazy, like Rick Riordan said (on his twitter account) "You *have* 2 be crazy 2  dream of being an author! It's required. (I think it was 17 july (checked on google images) don't know what year)
8. freewrite
9. write different kind of stuff
10. try writing on paper if you use computer and try using computer if you use paper
11.change enviroment
12. write with colored pencils
13.eat
14. sleep
15. get off internet
16.write about your dreams

Yeah well now I hope I have got over my writers block, and if not I always have some awesome sauce tips right here :) oh well. see yah
-Nemesismerri