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电话录音卡: In the hours of distress and miser,the eyes of every mortal man turn to friendship;in the hour of gladness and conviviality ,what is our want?It is friendship.When the heart overflows with gratitude,or with any other sweet and sarced sentiment,what is the world to which it would give utterance?a friend
GirlyGurl: Heyyy there! Thanks so much for stopping by my journal. I hope this upcoming year.. does turn out a lot better! Happy holidays! Happy New Year!
Marie Elliott: Hopping over now..
Horoscope 2006: Very interesting site, beautiful design, thank.
Kati: Just a
Nienke: You crack me up! Hunter, if you count your blog entries in your word count, you'd be way up there!
Paisley Pixie: Have a wonderful day!
talula: KEEP ON CHUGGING YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Marie Elliott: Doesn't say much for my effort when I decided to try 6 of the least common balls in our English lottery, doh - not one came up!!*#$£
Spooky: It's good to have friends in high places.
D.N. Simmons: I enjoyed your first chapter. Good luck on your writing career. I just wanted to stop by and say hello.
Cherry: Wow Hunter -- you're deep. And I forgot my boots. Hmmmmm... see ya later, sweet potater!
Talula_: Howdy! I am actually knee deep in NANO pages. I just hit 29, 365 words. I've posted updates on http://talula_rouge.bravejournal.comI se eyou've been cooking yourself Hunter at 30k+ BTW the no cable only bothers me when I need a break from writing LOL
Hunter: My korner of the world IS down Louisiana Way. I'm so far into blues country that I wake up feeling bad, my woman done left me, and I'm drunk by noon. Uh huh uh huh uh huh!
Kris S: Thanks for stopping by! Ooooooh...I love the blues! Bring on Etta James!! Have you heard of Mark Broussard (sp) from down Louisiana way? His is kind of a funky Cajun rockin' blues that I just LOVE! Hope all's well in your Korner of the World. Indian Summer has FINALLY arrived here!!! Yesssssssssss!
Paisley Pixie: Hello-surfed through here from The Coffee Hut. Always love meeting fellow writers on BraveJournal. Have a wonderful week. I would definitly love to read some of your work as well.
Nienke: Do you have any of your material posted? I'd love to read some, especially if it's half as entertaining as your blog!
Night_Pirate522: hello there! have a good weekend and good luck with the killing off of the character..tis very difficult to pull off believingly
Kris S: Thanks so much for your comment, Hunter! It's a really dreary dark day here in Portland today...I'm just going around doing some catch-up on everyone's blogs. Hope this finds you having a good weekend!
spooky: You crack me up. I read some of your journal to my husband and he was laughing so hard.
Talula: This entry was hilarious. I like the image of popeye hiding in the bushes!! :) HAve a good day!
Kris S: Ha, what a wicked sense of humor you have...got a kick out of your journal here. Please stop by and say hi...the door's always open.
Dannelen: Hey thanks for stopping by my place! I agree Cole is a great name!!!
Marie Elliott: Hi Hunter, thanks for dropping by my site and thanks for your comments. You have an arresting style...
night_pirate522: haha i wish.. naw.. good old friendly nyquill at work there lol.does the job quite nicely teehee. forgot to mention you may add me if ya like. always fun to meet fellow nanoers and writers.
Hunter: Hmm. This is my first year at Nano. I'll check the coffee hut, although it sounds like you're kinda smashed. Is it Irish coffee? ;)
night_pirate522: sorry.. forgot the link lol
night_pirate522: fellow nanoer yourself eh? hmm yes the formatting does mock.. kinda like that dog in duck hunt.. lol thanks for stopping by. stop by the coffee hut as well if you haven't yet.. designed for nanoers and writers alike. wanna join just leave me a tag. seems like you're getting far as well on the word count..good stuffs! is this your first year or are you a veteren on nano? pardon the spelling mistakes.. head foggy lol
Jen C: Thanks a lot Hunter. Now I want a sausage biscuit too and when a pregnant woman wants something she has to have it. So guess what is for dinner tonight...
Deb: Whoa...man...get yourself a biscuit already! Funny journal - made me smile and with three wild kids about to get off the school at any second - a good laugh is just what I needed!
Hunter: Yeah.. I was busy. (By that, I mean I was passed out in someplace I've never seen before). I really should change the locks around here.
CherrySwirl: Duuuuude.... haven't seen you in: 2 days, 10h, 23mins... c'mon! You're audience awaits more Hunterisms!
Jen C: thanks for the tab. 10,000 already. i'm still stuck at 800. there's still 3 weeks right?
Eric: Thanks for your tag & compliment, I love your site too, & will be back. Please come anytime you needed to be refreshed & leave me a tag, we post new quotes every weekday! Have a great week .
Eric: hi there, just stop by to say hello
Kara: Oh, wow, you're writing erotic romance! Great subgenre to be in these days. If I thought I could write it and do a good job, I'd be there! Instead, I stick to plain ol' romance (though it's still sexy).
MizMonique: Derigible? It's so Indiana Jones. Adventure must be the trick to 8000 words, eh? That and.... plenty of SEX!!! (scenes)....
secretconfessions: Thanks for the tag! Please stop by often and see more secrets revealed. I really like your blog, good luck!
Emma: Hey! Thanks for stopping by my journal - You got a nice journal here! Good luck with your writing!
hunter: Yeah. 8000 is kinda a fluke. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Delilah Devlin: Thanks for posting to my blog! I like what you're saying about writing erotic romance! Good luck with the piece!
talula: HI! How in the world are you already at 8000 words! GOSH!!! Want to write mine too?LOL
CherryS: Led Zeppelin called. They want their dirigible back.

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Tuesday, December 6th 2005

9:45 PM (1127 days, 7h, 47min ago)

Where Do We Go From Here

  • Mood: diffident
  • Word Count: Stagnating

An Open Letter To The People of Earth:

While I would like all of my posts, my novels, my letters, even my normal dialogue to contain more quips and quotes than quacks and quirks... I want my epitaph to be an epigram.  Something like... "Hunter Cole was a merry old soul who typed one line at a time.  Before being buried, and as he was carried, he finished the last few lines."

Anyway.  Before I get off on a tangent - as I am wont to do - I should state that this post, in my opinion, may contain themes, ideas, and emotions that are:  depressing, sad, anger, and oppression.  All done with sock puppets.  No, just kidding.  I'm really serious.  This is a "dark" post.  My super identity has been reborn as "The Dark Hunter".

My quandary, it seems, is that I made somewhat smooth sailing through the first 40,000 of my novel (if, by smooth sailing, you understand it to mean constantly taking on water and slowly sinking).

Things were going good.  My characters were happy, sexy, fun and inspiring.

Then...  What happened?  Now they're old, crockery, mean drunks.  Figuratively speaking, of course.  Although *I* am still inspired by the story, my characters seem to have gone fucking bonkers on me.  They're not funny, witty, or sexy.  They're being very, very difficult.

Sure, I threatened them.  "Look what happened to (mysterious character that was killed off with one fell swoop of my fingers on the guillotine-like keyboard)...  Is that what you want."  I waggled my eyebrows.  I shook my fist to the sky.  I got drunk and passed out in the ditch in front of their imaginative house.  It was pitiful.

So there we stand.  40,000.  And where's the romance?  Where's the erotica?  Although I haven't focused on anything of substance in my blog since... oh, the beginning.  I still consider myself an erotica writer.  With elements of comedy and sci-fi (sometimes).  But without romance, I don't find it funny, sexy, or ... well, I guess it IS still Sci-Fi.  But the sci-fi elements on their own aren't what interest people in the story.  They want witty, three-dimensional characters.  They want sexy, exciting love scenes.  They want inventive soliloquies delivered with passion by characters draped in elegance and smothered with irony.  Well, really, they just want sex.  And clever stuff in-between it.

Oh, woe, what is an author to do?  What can save the day.  Should I toss it aside in frustration like Nabokov - hey, this is my blog, I can liken myself to whoever I prefer! - only to pick it up at some point in the future and make it even better. 

Should I just WRITE THROUGH IT?  I seem to have been doing that, and that seems to be what got me to this point.  As I look over the past few pages, I think to myself "Blah".  I don't know about writing through it from here.

I believe that my plan is going along the lines of "I will start charting a better course, and start in with some excellent writing NOW...  Then when I go back over the story, I will rewrite ANY section that needs it to be more exciting, fun, and sexy."  That sounds easy enough, although I think it'll be a bit of work.

What about you?  Surely you've been here.  (Not you, the other Shirley).  Certainly you've discovered the secret to eternal life, only to say "Oh fuck!  That's not what I was looking for - I just wanted fun characters" and toss it aside.  Or...  Something more exciting?

So, let me know what you think...

And now...  The Choose-Your-Own-Hunter-Adventure!
Should he:
1.  Start writing with renewed vigor now and fix the rest on rewrite.
2.  Start rewriting now, in the hopes that by the time I fix the last sections it will gear up towards a climatic and dramatic and sexy/funny/sci-fi/sock puppet showdown ending!
3.  Get drunk and throw the figurative script in the proverbial trash can?
4.  Something entirely different!

-Hunter

12 Scirigibles.

Posted by Spooky's House:

When I hit this low, I normally start my rewrite. Sometimes I find a plot change that puts everything back in proper order. Just start a rewrite and maybe you'll find a spot for your erotic work.
Tuesday, December 6th 2005 @ 10:04 PM (1127 days, 7h, 28min ago)

Posted by dee of honeyoaks:

Chase your 'pov character' up a tree and let the 'antagonist character' throw 'gummy bears' at him or her (or vice versa).
Just an off the wall suggestion.
I enjoyed your entry...don't ya just hate it when your characters won't behave?
Sculpting has quite a bit in common with writing in that respect.

Wishing you a dandy of the rest of the week!
Wednesday, December 7th 2005 @ 8:36 PM (1126 days, 8h, 56min ago)

Posted by Talula_Rouge:

Well thank you for the kuddos! I love Christmas but that line just struck me as hilarious .. so I hadddddd to write something. Hey, you've given me an idea.. the 12 dyas of Christmas... Mayhem and Merriment! AWWWW HUNTER HUNTER HUNTER!!! That is my project for the day! :P
Thursday, December 8th 2005 @ 3:27 AM (1126 days, 2h, 5min ago)

Posted by Nienke Hinton:

First of all, check out this hilarious post: http://zette.blogspot.com/2005/10/author-versus-character.html
I would suggest you do some "inner/outer" work with your characters. Perhaps interview them, write about them in a compmletely seperate and unique situation, go out and be them (if I were "" what store would I go to, what would I buy? etc.)
Just a suggestion. Either that or kill 'em all off.
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