Camp Nano July 24

In the world of Erria, the human race faces a threat that is the wizards. The council of elders chooses a new leader to protect the humans each time the last one dies. This war has been raging for millennia, and yet everything is about to change when the council chooses Arth, an orphaned boy.

GOALS

-write 25,000 words
-write character backstories
-make the plot sound not cliche

Ooooh I love how the wizards are the threat and not the protagonists! Best of luck this month, Isbah!! You got this

Tropes are tropes for a reason! It's not cliche if you do something fresh with it
Best of luck this Camp! You got this!!

DAY 1

-833 words written
-Is it weird that I had alot of fun coming up with fantasy foods?
-I think I need to find better names.

You've got one intriguing plot here, Isbah :] And I think I really like Vyn, is it too early to say that he might even be my fav side character of your story? Love the names too, they're unique! Good luck with Camp NaNo

Fantasy foods are amazinggggg And LOL I felt that with the names xD

DAY 2

-wrote 646 words today
-the world name is actually giving me chills. It sounds like a frog or something
-new side character:

Spoiler

Cassemir
18
Extroverted and super friendly. Doesn't care too much about the rules. Wears his long black hair in a man bun. To people who don't know him, he seems like a cringe teen, but he is actually a really nice person who is very useful in stressful situations. His favourite color is purple. Preferred fighting style: sword fighting.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
~Stephen King

pssst...I also have an inspirational quote about writing for each day of the next month

Omg, I hate naming characters. XD

I want to know about the foods!

DAY 3

@Snoink the foods were something like:

Spoiler

onion candy
Deep fried Capybara
Mushroon cake
a bread called illeyote

@Roxanne Vyn might be my favourite character too. I think I kind of made him like Chaol Westfall from Throne of Glass, if you've read that? Chaol was absolutely my favourite character

-wrote 200 words which isnt ideal because I need to write at least 800 words each day to complete my goal by the end of july.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”~Franz Kafka

Hmm, no, I haven't read it. But Chaol must've been a pretty good inspiration, because Vyn seems really supportive and just a great character in general :]. Also, i love the quotes of each day, I feel inspired now too

And as much as we love goals , remember to take it easy. *gives a reassuring pat on the back* Find some inspiration, and some time, and then keep writing.
Oh and, *hands out snacks*, here's a little something to keep you going

Deep fried Capybara

WHAT??????

Omg, @EllieMae would be horrified. XD

Snoink wrote:

Deep fried Capybara

WHAT??????

Omg, @EllieMae would be horrified. XD

*screams in horror*

*but then realizes how epic this project is and stops screaming*

Sorry @EllieMae XD

-new character who hates Arth:

Spoiler

Pan
20
One of those really silly people who make someone their rival because they are afraid of how good that someone is (totally not thinking of myself right now) Pan also thinks a lot of himself and hates Arth. Maybe its because he was with Magnius before Arth came (Magnius is the person who took in Arth and gave him a job when his parents died) so maybe he's not that bad after all, just jealous and lonely.

-im mostly writing crap(aka first draft) but came up with this really great paragraph today:

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In his dreams, he saw his mother. She was there, in white like an apparition, a ghost. A wisp of smoke that would disappear from the flutter of a hand. She stood over him like a guardian angel from hell. Her presence had never felt so blissful and so terrible.

-wrote 737 words today

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.~Stephen King

DAY 5

-wrote 395 words today
-total word count is 2979 out of 25,000

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

Over 10% there!!! Most excellent.