Re: /

by Guest Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:09 am

Hatch your plot in the form of your significant situation.

When I saw that I thought of "in medias res". Basically you don't start your novel with your character awaking and getting ready for a new day at work/school. Instead you start the action when the MC's boss slap the MC in the face. Or something like that. Because the getting to the action isn't interesting, while the action is.

by Guest Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:04 am

by **Artorius** Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:57 am

Miss Dagger wrote:
Hatch your plot in the form of your significant situation.

When I saw that I thought of "in medias res". Basically you don't start your novel with your character awaking and getting ready for a new day at work/school. Instead you start the action when the MC's boss slap the MC in the face. Or something like that. Because the getting to the action isn't interesting, while the action is.

I was thinking the exact same thing, and I often like to begin in this manner. I/ve read too many epic poems haha I use a lot of epic poetry elements just because its my main style of book I read.

by Guest Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:00 am

Miss Dagger’s Fogathon Profile

Title: Master Status (tentative, very tentative)

Description of Story: After humiliating her teacher on a guild task in the desert, a young adventuress must now wrestle her studies and a revenge-thirsty teacher to achieve her master status.

Start date: 9th May (2011)

Word count progress/points
May 31: 3969 words / 0 pts.
June 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
July 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
August 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
September 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
October 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
November 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
December 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
January 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
February 29: 0 words / 0 pts.
March 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
April 30: 0 words / 0 pts.

Excerpt: In progress

by Guest Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:46 pm

by **Kalon Ordona II** Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:36 am

Kalon Ordona II's FOGATHON Profile

Story Title: Elemental Arc

Story Description: T'hareth Gaden is a peaceful land ruled by three sister dragons. Suddenly, out of nowhere, untold monsters begin to appear. Few and scattered at first, the danger becomes a great scourge. Many lives are lost. Many heroes arise. This is the story of one.

Progress & Points
MAY 31: 5,326 words / 60 pts.
JUN 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
JUL 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
AUG 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
SEP 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
OCT 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
NOV 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
DEC 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
JAN 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
FEB 29: 0 words / 0 pts.
MAR 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
APR 30: 0 words / 0 pts.

Story Excerpt
Light glistened through sparse drops of early morning rain. Gently slanting rays of sunlight filtered through the budding shapely leaves of beech and farlin and hicora trees. The quiet clearing sparkled as water dripped from the newly blooming foliage of spring. The only sounds were the far distant echo of a vague melody, the unsteady plip of the vestiges of rain, and the constant tak, tak, tak of a scabbard's metal tip on rock.

Camalon sat wrapped in an oiled cloak, his knees drawn up and his leather boots flat on the protruding boulder. He wore a distant expression, the sword-hilt resting on one shoulder behind his head, as he continued to tap with one hand holding the tip of the scabbard and the other arm wrapped around his knees. It was two years since he'd come of age--the same two years since his elderly father had finally succumbed to grief and died. But Camalon had never felt alone. There were others. It was not the past that he pondered, now, but the future. In two years, he had learned and experienced much about the life of a hunter's swordsman. Before his parents had died, it had been Camalon's dream. Now, after pursuing it this far, he wasn't so sure.

"Am I afraid?" His voice was neither high nor low, though it was no longer a boy's. Camalon had not always talked to himself. It happened only after he'd started going out on the hunts and then coming back to the quiet woods of home. Somehow, he just felt the need to fill the silence. He continued to tap the rock with the sword's scabbard. "What do I want?" All he knew was that he wanted more, but, "I don't want to lose anything else." Tak, tak, tak, tak... Spring was finally here. He could finally go hunting again. Maybe that was close to what he really wanted. Out.

The last echoes of the distant melody faded. The rain, too, had already stopped. Everything seemed that much more silent. Camalon couldn't sit there any longer. Even the fresh scents of wet spring did little to distract his senses. He uncurled his spine and unfolded his knees before standing up on the boulder and sliding down to the ground. The cloak fell into place around him as he turned back toward the trail out of the clearing. Grateful for the sound of his footfalls on the damp earth, Camalon made his way along the trail he'd worn over the years, between the clearing and the house that was now his.

It was the familiar pacing along that path which, in the end, solidified the idea forming in his mind. One of these days, he thought, "I'll just keep on walking." If only he could convince himself to leave everyone behind. His resolution fell as quickly as it had risen. Such had been the manner of his thoughts, though not as defined, for some time, back and forth between the two great pulls on his heart: the familiar and the unknown. With a sigh, Camalon just kept on walking.

by Slenderella Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:52 pm

I'd like to sign up if you don't mind.
I think this will really help me keep motivated to keep writing once we actually start in May. Very Happy

by Guest Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:27 pm

by Slenderella Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:34 pm

Slenderella’s Fogathon Profile

TITLE: In My Head

DESCRIPTION OF STORY: She's always been there for him, through thick and thin. The two have been inseparable since they were kids. So why aren't they together? Why aren't they dating? Well, its as simple as this really; she is his imaginary friend.

WORD COUNT PROGRESS
May 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
June 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
July 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
August 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
September 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
October 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
November 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
December 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
January 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
February 29: 0 words / 0 pts.
March 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
April 30: 0 words / 0 pts.

EXCERPT:

by cindrella Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:10 am

Hrm, I started my story already, no idea if we were allowed to do that...
If so though, I wouldn't mind being signed up, since my story is actually being posted on FOG in place of me not role playing on the forum. (:

by Guest Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:00 pm

by cindrella Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:33 pm

Woo, mkay I'll make a profile later~

by Tartra Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:02 pm

I'm thinking there should be a separate thread for the profiles only so they aren't lost among the discussion.

by **Kalon Ordona II** Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:19 pm

They're linked on the first page. Wink

by Tartra Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:23 pm

Ooooh, fancy! Smile

by cindrella Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:45 am

Cindrella's FOGathon Profile

TITLE: Random Occurence

DESCRIPTION OF STORY: Mainly it's a horror story about vampires terrorizing a particular city. The main characters that don't die is a girl named Odette who was an orphan who got shipped to a mental asylum and grew up there. Her romantic interest is the Werewolf who is a couple centuries old and bound to her by an oath his father had taken to swearing that him and his children would forever protect those with the blood of her great-grandparents, and though faint, it was still there. They later team up with a girl who had a pretty normal life up until that point named Alba, and it pretty much justs follows the group as slayers. :3

WORD COUNT PROGRESS
May 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
June 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
July 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
August 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
September 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
October 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
November 30: 0 words / 0 pts.
December 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
January 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
February 29: 0 words / 0 pts.
March 31: 0 words / 0 pts.
April 30: 0 words / 0 pts.

by Guest Sun May 01, 2011 9:34 am

I haven't finished planning yet. I'm getting close, but I'm not there. Plus now I'm getting into the last month of my studies, so I have a lot to do there. So I'll post my words and such, but I won't be getting many points this first month me thinks.

by Guest Sun May 01, 2011 10:27 pm

by **Kalon Ordona II** Sun May 01, 2011 10:58 pm

I've been doing a lot of planning today, still. I hope to write at least something before the end of the day.

by cindrella Mon May 02, 2011 12:45 am

I haven't wrote in awhile, but I hope to get my third chapter out after returning from my 33 hour long trip.

Hope everyone else is doing good! Very Happy

by **Kalon Ordona II** Mon May 02, 2011 5:42 am

Day One: Success! cheers

by Guest Mon May 02, 2011 8:10 pm

by **Kalon Ordona II** Tue May 03, 2011 6:08 am

Day Two: Success! cheers

Huzzah for having plans!

by Guest Tue May 03, 2011 6:51 pm

by **Kalon Ordona II** Wed May 04, 2011 6:36 am

Day Three: sort of half. I did more planning that writing, but I suppose that counts for something. I was kinda tired all day today for some reason. :/

by **Kalon Ordona II** Fri May 06, 2011 5:51 am

Hit a setback. I got LOTS of planning done, though, so it wasn't really a loss, just a different sort of success. Good for the long run, bad for my fogathon. I had to scrap a bit of my writing so far, so I'm down to around 1,000 words instead of 1,500. It's definitely better for it, though. Hopefully I'll catch up. (Of course I totally won't, and I say that to avoid jinxing myself into not, even though I'm totally not superstitious at all, so that I actually DO catch up. Sneaky me, only now that I said this it probably won't work, so now it won't! There! Hahaha! Shhhhh.)

Edit:
Day Three: Complete!
Though I'm on Day Five, so I still have that writing to do. I'm back up to 1,331 words, though.

by **Kalon Ordona II** Sun May 08, 2011 5:12 am

Mother's Day is putting me behind. But that would be true of any month, really. Just have to work through it. ^_^

by Guest Sun May 08, 2011 10:13 am

by Guest Tue May 10, 2011 3:29 am

Started writing yesterday. Wrote 992 words. Smile

by Sponsored content