#nanoplamo

...and hello, lovelies!

With the start of a new month, I thought it would be a good time to introduce some changes to our Twitter activity. While the blog has been wonderful for reaching out to all of you and answering your questions, it doesn’t provide us with much opportunity for back-and-forth and engaging with you during the writing process. Since this is the part of the writing community that I love the most, I knew there had to be a solution!

I know what you’re probably thinking right now:

Oh my gosh, I totally agree! How can I get more of Penney yelling excitedly at me about stories?

That’s so sweet of you! If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re in luck.

If you’re already following us (@plotlinehotline), you’ve probably noticed a slight increase in our Twitter presence as far as retweets and general threads are concerned. You’ve likely also come across the occasional prompts we’ve been posting.

This has been one of my favorite parts about working with our Twitter account for the past month— I’ve always loved working from prompts, and the chance to share those and talk with people about their stories has been amazing! 

It has been a little sporadic, though, and with April’s Camp NaNoWriMo coming up, I’d really like to make March a great planning month in terms of prompts and story starters. To this end, I’ll be posting new prompts daily with a different theme (and corresponding hashtag) for each weekday to help spur our creativity and get a few scenes under our belt before the new month starts.

The PLHL’s Daily Prompt List

Miscellaneous Monday— Anything goes! These prompts don’t have a consistent theme to them, but will instead offer different challenges to keep in mind as you’re writing your scene.

Character Trait Tuesday— Tell us about your character! All of these will be related to certain qualities about your character that you can exemplify in your scene.

Workup Wednesday— Practice your planning skills! We’ll be posting a final line for you to consider, and the goal will be writing a scene that builds up to that line.

Theoretical Thursday— Change things up a little! These prompts posit a “What if” scenario that challenges you to look at your story/character from a new angle, offering perspectives that you may not have considered otherwise.

Photo Friday— They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we want you to write them! Each prompt will consist of a single picture (with no dialogue or writing) that you can use as a basis for the scene you write.

Worldbuilding Weekend— It’s exactly what it sounds like! Each weekend, we’ll ask a new question about your world to help you build and develop the universe your characters live in. This doesn’t necessarily have to be a scene, but should help to get the ball rolling to save you a bit of time later!

I’m very excited to be introducing these prompts, and I’d very much like to hear about what you’ve decided to write and your thoughts on the process. As such, I’ll be regularly monitoring all of the above hashtags, as well as our NaNoWriMo-specific tag (#plhlsuperscribes).

I look forward to talking to all of you! Good luck with your planning, and happy writing!

Themes guiding the story are based around the concept of destiny and free-will. Is everything set out in a grand design or is there an infinite number of possibilities to any situation, leaving the future up in the air until it becomes the present?

Well, this one is pretty simple. I’ll write this one out real quick,

What is my novel about?

It’s that time of year, fall is in the air. The leaves are turning colors. PUMPKIN SPICE FUCKING EVERYWHERE! It is time for me to get to work on NaNoPlaMo, November is a mere month away. Yikes! So for this next month, I hope to psyche myself up here on Tumblr and the NaNo site.

In these next coming weeks, I am going to be posting on both my tumblrs, Here for updates and other misc posts of my amusement and enjoyment. On @the-dm-ego for any excerpts and titular characters and other more in depth story-work.

Without further adieu!

Let’s begin with the first question:

Why do I want to write?

I’ve narrowed my plot ideas for NaNoWriMo down to four. Which do you think I should do?

Crossing the Line: The Reaper, an ancient spirit of darkness and evil, has come to the physical world to wreak some havoc. Capable of influencing the darkest emotions of mortals, he causes these emotions to manifest in order to reap the benefits of the chaos and destruction they cause. Mike and Gabe work on behalf of The One and are trying to build up an army to combat the Reaper’s power. Good has to play fair; evil doesn’t.

Finding a Home: From the outside, Dana Evans seemed to have the perfect life–beautiful, popular, top of her class, perfect family. But a lot can happen behind closed doors. One horrible night, secrets are revealed and Dana learns she’d been living a lie. Truth is that she was kidnapped when she was five years old.

Love Along the Nile: Wenamon, a cruel and selfish nobleman, has been cursed by the gods and turned into a monster of the Nile; he will remain this way forever unless he learns to love and be loved in return by the time the yearly Nile flood has passed ten times. Time is running out when Hasina, daughter of a goldmith indebted to him, agrees to work for The Crocodile to pay off her father’s debt.