Novel-in-a-Day 5: Go Set A NiaD

Literature & Writing Novel in a Day
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I live “the west” but I sure don’t know anything about 1867 Arizona territory. Just going with good old human interactions and emotions. I don’t think they’ve changed much in 150 years…
Got 1500+ words down. This is great fun. Nighty night.

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I’m American. But live in Connecticut. At least I’ve read almost every book Elmer Kelton and Louis L’Amour have ever written and wrote a western for NaNoWriMo a couple years ago…

Now just working up to writing this chapter.

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I found the PERFECT playlist to write this to. 8tracks.com/melsparrow/in-the-wild-west

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Well… almost had to bow out, but at the last minute my gray matter capitulated. 1300 into the first half of the chapter. Calling it a night.

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Calling it a night (nearly 1am here). Getting too old for this late night nonsense. :stuck_out_tongue:

See ya’ll in the (my) morning!

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Sounds like a plan!

The email questions have dried up now… Looks like everyone’s either gone to bed or not got up yet so I’m going to go grab a quick couple of hours myself. Hopefully nothing urgent will come up in he meantime. If anyone does need anything, type really loudly and I might wake up! :smiley:

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OK. First draft done. Now I just have to go back and put in all the expectoratin’. I think the aliens will probably take care of that, though. They and the elves don’t hold with a lot of spitting in their magic forest. It’s okay I put that in, isn’t it? You said extra characters were okay.

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Okay if someone else is doing aliens and elves I’m totally putting in the UFO scene I wasn’t sure about.

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I hate you all. :smiley:

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Okay so its the first year trying to write with a daughter… NOT ONE WORD WRITTEN! I dont suppose it would be NIAD without me cutting it right to the wire… I’m blaming her!

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Can I blame your daughter too? Please? :blush:

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Although in my head the ‘Triceptacon’ battle section is pretty much done…

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I’ve asked her… she’s fine with it… :laughing:

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A western - awesome!
I never thought about writing one myself, so this is really cool!

I got two questions:

  1. Does the Wells Fargo man riding into town to alert the Marshal have a name or do I need to call him “the Wells Fargo man”, which might become rather strange?

  2. Does the Marshal knwo about the contents of the stolen cases and / or is the content of any importance (to the story).

Cheers and happy writing!!

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Done for now. I will wake up and look with fresh eyes. Can’t wait to read the rest of the books. Had a great time, thanks again for the invite.

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560 words so far.

Time for a break.

I had a few problems with getting WordPad to open the instruction file, but it worked OK in Libre Office

There’s a lot that has to happen, and I have a feeling that my chapter is close to the end. The events fit with the genre conventions for that.

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Hey Catcher74.

  1. I’ve not given him a name anywhere. You can refer to him however you like!
  2. The contents are mostly papers and a little bit of cash. Huge irritation to the bank, limited benefit to the robbers.
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It’s not often I get told that! :smiley:

Assuming, of course, that I have any familiarity with the genre conventions. :blush: :smiley:

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400 words short and the chapter is ‘finished’. Have to see if I can stretch it out some more.

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I opened the pack before bed, a little drunk, and almost cried at the amount of info given! It’s obviously a good thing though, so drunken me should get a grip.

Everything I know about westerns comes from Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox, which is great for the soundtrack to get me in the mood but bad because that game is set a full 40 years after this story! :open_mouth: