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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

Ha. I have to write the first draft of a horror story for the next anthology. I already have it in mind. I went to a name generator for proper names, but I need a surname (and possibly more than one). I decided to look for a generator to use in a pinch, so I ended up Googling the above link. Even if the surname changes later, at least I can generate one in a pinch. ;-) Thank you, Simthing Different 2! And yes, that is the name of the site.

JulNoWriMo Update, 23 July 2007 Monday

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

                I don't know if I'll manage to catch up with the word count, but it's still a good run, and I've so far written twice as much as I had, wither of the previous two months. A little over that, so the total's superior to the combined two.
                I'm still not fully awake. I would much rather go back to bed. Still, I'm going to try to get something written. I am still going to try catching up with the word count total.
                My current JulNoWriMo running tally is here on DeviantART, along with the total word count, and the separate writer's bible count. Where I'm starting today, with the previous word count, the scenes are going to overlap.
                Now, all I need to do, is to wake up... lol. I was in bed till almost 12:30. Didn't intend to stay in bed, asleep, for that long, but after the last week... bah. Except for being a bit tired, I'm so far faring a bit better.
                15,190 words to go, if I want to catch up with the 37,097 words that I am supposed to be at today. Let's see if it can be done. Total average of combined (minus one word for the eight remaining days, I think), is 3554 words per day.
                Wish me luck!

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

More later, but:

2298 / 2000 Glossary / Bible
21,144 / 50,000 JulNoWriMo Running (Story) Tally
41,181/ 70,017 Story Proper

Cheers!

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

Inspiration can come from anywhere. Hades, it can strike when you're mowing the lawn, and musing about irrelevant things. Hades, I was even looking at my daughter's textbook for history in the second grade and (though I never followed through on it) using it for an outline for an SF story, complete with the territorial expansion and stuff. It could still be done, but I'd rather work on my fantasy series.

Ideas for horror stories can rise from almost anything too, a random incident or person for inspiration.

Fro mthe fellow who crams his family in a closer because he thinks it's the end of the world, that turns into a murder-suidide, and Jim Jones (also murder-suicide, though on a much larger scale), to Charles Manson, to whatever news story inspired THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.

Some of the stories from the Bible are pretty scary too, when you think about the incidents depicted in either the Old or New Testament.

Actually, from romance, to horror, to SF or fantasy, you can glean inspiration and idea fodder from just about any source. Social trends (1984, Make Room! Make Room!, The Time Machine, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) and mroe abstract plots (Flatland, which isactually a combination) and cyberpunk. Axioms (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is one idea behind a time machine story that I have had outlined for years. I think I'm almost ready to start writing it, finally, but the plot had to sit in my brain and drive me insane for over a decade.

If you look around you, at the way you have always done things, and then look at one of your friends or neighbors and notice that they do things differently, sometimes by a major instead of a minor degree. These differences can also lead you to a story.

O' course, y' have t' train y'self up that way. ;-)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

Because I have been so lax. :)

7/12
2206 / 2000 Glossary / Bible
19,523 / 50,000 JulNoWriMo Running (Story) Tally
39,560 / 70,017 Story Proper

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

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    2142 / 2000 Glossary / Bible
14,602 / 50,000 JulNoWriMo Running (Story) Tally
34,639 / 70,017 Story Proper

I cannot get through to MySpace to update, but this poor blog has been neglected long enough. T_T