First line of yesterday, Into Lannamer:
He sat back and glared at her. “You want to disguise me.”
Last line of yesterday, Into Lannamer:
He’d have to pay closer attention if he didn’t want to get caught in the middle of escaping.
290 words yesterday on Into Lannamer, bringing the total to 3582
Total of 2673 words yesterday, bringing the total to 10,258.
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First line of today, Into Lannamer:
He gaped at her. “I want to go home. I’m the-”
Last line of today, Into Lannamer:
“It’s like throwing a blanket over a goat and pretending it’s a table. But if you add enough blankets, even a goat-herder might be fooled.”
628 words today, 3292 words running total on Into Lannamer.
A grand total of 1,283 words today, bringing the total to 7,585.
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First line of yesterday, Into Lannamer:
It was a good choice
Last line of yesterday, Into Lannamer:
She settled cross-legged with her knees nearly touching his, so that she, at least, didn’t need to raise her voice.
808 words yesterday, 2664 words running total on Into Lannamer.
A grand total of 1,655 words yesterday, bringing the total to 6,302. Whee!
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First line of today, Into Lannamer:
“The remaining army will need translators and, mm, cultural interpreters.”
Last line of today, Into Lannamer:
… or risk his own life by starting to complain again.
803 words yesterday, 1856 words running total on Into Lannamer.
A grand total of 1531 words yesterday, bringing the total to 4647. Whee!
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First line of today, Into Lannamer:
The war was over.
Last line of today, Into Lannamer:
But he was unlikely to be swinging any scythes either way.
1053 words into this project, 2268 words today and I’m not quite done yet.
(there was a write-in, and then I spent some time sitting outside feeding sticks into a fire. The wifi doesn’t reach to the firepit, soo…)
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The war is over. Rin wants to go home. But if she doesn’t take the recalcitrant, difficult Girey with her, he’ll either be dead, the center of a rebellion neither nation can handle right now, or both.
Girey just wants to go home, too. But chained to the back of Rin’s goat, he’s finding himself going in exactly the wrong direction.
This is going to be a long journey!
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Rin is the fourth? in line for her grandfather’s throne. Some of those before her in line have recused themselves – not interested in leadership, focused on a calling in the priesthood, interested in romance with someone who didn’t want to be in a leadership position, or not interested in creating heirs for one reason or another. Many have died. Her grandfather is quite old, and has outlived handfuls of his heirs.
More than half of the royal heirs went into the army. Calenta has a heavily meritocratic society – their rulers were originally war-chiefs of nomadic tribes – and earning a high position in the Army is one way to prove your merit. However, it’s also a good way to die, especially with an active war boiling on the front.
When Rin left to study healing, she was fourteenth in line. When she left for the army she was ninth in line. Her cousin Elen was three behind her and now is one behind her.
Her mother recused herself long ago. Her mother is a scholar and prefers her books to people.
Probably –> recusing yourself is acceptable (being removed from the inheritance is not, is considered very shameful, and it /does/ happen), but it is a one-way street. You can’t decide to un-recuse yourself.
While I decided to get rid of the immensely complicated inheritance system I’d originally thought of, it still flips genders. I.e., since the Emperor is male, his heir WILL be female, his daughter or a granddaughter THROUGH a daughter, or, if one suitable cannot be found, from his mother’s or grandmother’s line.
This has made Rin’s uncle, who needs a name (though he might have one in an earlier draft), exceedingly cranky.
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(From here)
Basic Questions
What is your full name? What name do you go by?
Arienyankarina, Rin
(Ah-reen-nyan-kar-in-nuah)
Do you have any other nicknames? Where did they come from?
Ariena – standard shortening of long names in my country
(Ah-reen-na)
What is your age?
I have had twenty-five birthdays
What is your birthday?
I was born in the rainy season, on the first day the rain came as water and not snow.
Where are you from?
Lannamer, the capital of Calenta
Where are you living now?
Oniarika, a city on the Bitrani-Calenyen border
Basic Questions
What is your full name? What name do you go by?
Girey Tel Darion, son of Fenry Ron Darion, king of Bithrain
Do you have any other nicknames? Where did they come from?
Prince, your lordship, your highness
What is your age?
Twenty-three
What is your birthday?
The first festival of Veignevar in the hot seasons
Where are you from?
The capital of Bithrain
Where are you living now?
Oniarika, a city on the Bitrani-Calenyen border
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I was going to write up a post of links to word trackers, but this site has lots of the widgets.
Do you track your wordcount? When you’re doing nano, do you use their site exclusively, or do you keep your words somewhere else? A widget tracker? A spreadsheet? What about when you’re not doing nano?
I like tracking things. I like tracking things a lot.
My current monthly wordcount chart looks like:
some other charts and tables of mine visible here.
It was modified in part from Svenja Gosen’s awesome sheets, which I seriously recommend you check out.
While that’s where I started, there are a few other sites that look good for spreadsheet templates:
This one actually looks nice, though the page itself is a bit iffy.
Nidonocu’s site is a few years out of date, but their (2009) tracker includes a calculation for words per minute, which is interesting.
The Sprint Shack (follow them on twitter if you like wordsprints!) has a very stripped down words/day whole year tracking spreadsheet
Here’s another whole-year tracker.
Justin McLachlan’s makes good use of conditional formatting, showing you % complete and +/- goal numbers.
This form is so stripped down as to barely be worth the bother, but the tips are kind of interesting.
And this Nano Report Card has some nice journalling stuff, rather similar in concept to Svenja Gosen’s but with a less pretty interface and more journalling. (“Primary Writing Location?” “Morale?”)
This one comes with a big thermometer-like bar showing progress!
There are probably more; I only went through two pages of google results. <.<
Tracking is, I think, very individual. What do you want out of your tracking (if you want it?)
Do you know of other tracking resources – or even other SORTS of tracking resources? Let me know!
Bonus link: this page has some generators and some other interesting stuff as well as spreadsheet links.
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So, you’re writing something! Good, good, that’s always a good first step no wait.
So, you’re planning on writing something! (or pantsing, in which case come back to this post in November, or whenever you write it 😉
You probably have characters, and they probably need names.
(I got through two very long chapters of a theoretical serial without naming the characters, once. I’m pretty sure the Finder is just named Finder by now).
Names with Meaning
Behind The Name is the most accurate, comprehensive name site I’ve found.
Think Baby Names is also pretty good.
20,000 Names has nice lists: “Dark” Names. “Weather” Names. And so on.
Want to name a character appropriately for a historical American era?
the Social Security Database goes back to 1879 with the top names for each year.
Via ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anke: “In case anyone wants to name someone from Germany, www.beliebte-vornamen.de has lists of the most popular baby names from 1890 to the present. just pick the birth year and see“
And here’s a huge resource on historically accurate names: The SCA’s name articles
A Name-suggester site (“I like this name.” “Try these names.”) via meridian_rose
If you can still get your hands on a phone book, that’s a great way to pick out surnames.
Or check out Wikipedia’s lists of most common surnames by location.
Names with no Meaning
Fourteen Minutes has a lovely random-name-sound generator
Springhole has several name generators
Seventh Sanctum is like the granddaddy of name generators
Chaotic Shiny has quite a few name generators, too.
This one’s new to me (Mithril & Mages) but makes some fun names.
Serendipity Generators via meridian_rose
A list of Naming resources via meridian_rose
Baby Name Wizard, via inventrix and Cal’s long and useful discussion on Behind the Name and Baby name Wizard.
There! Now that all your male characters are no longer named Jack (or maybe that’s just my problem), you’re ready to go.
Well, I mean, your characters are ready to go…
…well, at least they have names.
Know any more great sites? Let me know!
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