Some years ago, I've read in an essay about creative writing that making one line blurbs is simply an art. Needless to say, I since then I have become obsessed with writing the perfect blurb for each of my stories (sometimes it takes me weeks...) Am I the only one so crazy about it, or is there actually somebody that understands me? xD
Also, if we're still here, how could you summarize your nano in 25-30 words?
Mine would be something among the lines:
"If you told me that tomorrow I would be hitting my heard and started hearing the thoughts of all the people crushing on me I’d say you were out of your mind…"
Sorry if this topic has already been posted, I didn't find it. :)
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Nov 30, 2008 - 12 56
Hmmm... interesting...
"When the good guys act like bad guys and the bad guys act the same, how come it's up to the accidental vamp to save the day?"
I swear I didn't mean to rhyme... lol.
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Nov 30, 2008 - 13 03
"Vampires suck."
Okay, not really, but I couldn't resist. :P
----------Title: Breaking Light
Goal: Finishing this novel. (Probably be 100k-120k at this rate.)
Sanity level: Do you even need to ask?
50,239 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 13 15
Okay, not really, but I couldn't resist. :P
Quite literally :P
50,052 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 14 21
"There need to be more books in the world with nightmares, puppies, angst, and ferris wheels."
Um, yeah. That's really all there is to know about my novel right now. It's getting edited like whoa...after Christmas.
----------NaNo '06: A Tale of Peace and Fire (Win)
NaNo '07: The Winding Way (Win)
NaNo '08: The Importance of Asking Why (Win)
And what do I have to show for it? Absolutely nothing but lost sanity!
Totally worth it!
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Nov 30, 2008 - 14 22
Tee-hee :3
"Five different people with five different sets of grades get into the same school, and they all have powers... what the hell is going on with this college?!?"
[*counts* 28 words! Hell yes. :D]
50,001 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 11
I can describe it in one word: "Chaos"
----------"I feel lost to-night without my smiles. I rose a moment ago to look for it in my
mirror. I like to believe that she has it now."
J. M. Barrie
53,159 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 15
Heh, it's sort of like movie poster taglines!
Uhh... "Life is hard." I don't know. I'm terrible at this game.
----------UNGH THE SOLILOQUOY
Do it again!
52,610 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 37
Bug: Once it's gone, it's gone.
I'm serious-- I was thinking about this when I was writing it
50,780 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 42
Memories are chancy things, especially when you can't remember anything that happened to you prior to waking up with what looks like a fatal scar on your chest and the idea that somehow, some way, you have to prove yourself to the world and overcome the past you can't remember.
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Nov 30, 2008 - 15 50
The memories of the school's past resurface as five students find more then they mean to uncover in the hidden truths of years gone by.
BAM!
25 words exactly. But maybe it needs tweaking..
In an asylum-turned-boarding school, five students find more then they mean to uncover in the hidden truths of years gone by.
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~ Olivia and Caroline
61,458 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 53
Following the dreams of others teaches you who you aren't; it's only when you've got nothing left to guide you but your own heart that you learn who you are.
50,087 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 57
"Sense is always the most nonsensical when you don't know what side of the battlelines you're on."
I suck at summarizing. >.<
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Nov 30, 2008 - 16 10
A mutant clone with anger management issues kicks the shit out of a secret military base. And zombies.
I thought of this at work last week and actually laughed out loud in front of my coworkers, yah, they think I'm crazy
But, believe it or not, my book isn't quite as silly as this makes it sound B3
50,054 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 16 22
When personalities clash, bad things happen and when you are having an argument with a werecat, be prepared to lose.
Hmmm...
I guess that explains my conflict. :D
20,284 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 19 07
"For the future's teenagers, high-tech, high-stakes crime is somewhere between skateboard and cigarette; but when a heist goes tragically awry, one boy decides to live straight, and in the process learns the meaning of justice. "
omg...it sounds so sappy when I put it that way...
50,323 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 19 11
Is a life spent indoors much of a life at all? Giving up everything you know is hard, but it just might bring about something that seems an awful lot like happiness.
Oops, too long...
How about...
Home shouldn't just be a place you're trapped; it should be a place you're wanted.
61,272 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 19 47
Rule # 1: Never discuss your plan to overthrow the crazy sorceress queen in front of her pet vulture.
lol, 19 words. That's just the one people seem to like. If I had to do this for real...
When you're the illegitimate daughter of the King, when the world thinks Snow White is your fraternal twin, when trust is only a rare treasure to be betrayed, there is only one truth: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You The Villain.
41 words. Too bad, I like it.
Or just "What doesn't kill you makes you the villain". That's practically the theme of my book now. o.O
50,376 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 20 08
Nothing is as it first appears.
That is my story and I'm sticking to it. 6 words.
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Nov 30, 2008 - 20 13
Hmm.... this is hard I have way too many characters in my book but I will try anyway.
Forgive the past, keep moving forward and live a life without regrets.
51,509 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 19 35
"One missing kid who reads The Great Gatsby, one crazy, alcoholic playboy of a computer genius, one mob boss who drinks too much coffee and hasn't eaten or slept in two days, and terrorists from the Soviet Union...and poor Dria is left to deal with all of them."
Yeah, I could do better, but that's basically the story.
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Dec 1, 2008 - 22 01
Best summary evar! XD
And that's a wonderful tagline! 8O <3
I'll give mine a shot:
"Surrounded by death and trapped in darkness, three happenstance companions find that conquering the demons in the streets isn't as difficult as conquering the demons in their hearts."
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Dec 1, 2008 - 23 24
"Who had the power to save the world, and who has the potential to destroy it?"
Yuppers, there it is!
----------I think. I dream. I write.
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Dec 2, 2008 - 04 37
"The training ground for spies has been betrayed, and mercenary-pirates attack the ninja-spies."
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
----------"Be nice to the imaginary people. Don't kill too many." -- e-mail from my youngest sister, June 23, 2008
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12 18
The last sentence of my synopsis, just minorly tweaked: "Byron woke up one morning, and his nightmares awoke with him." Dun dun duuuuuun!
----------In your dreams....anything is possible.
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12 19
"The world is hypnotized into doing what the evil Government wants except for a small village of crazy Brittish people"
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Dec 3, 2008 - 14 08
First person from my MC:
"Just because I'm a heroin addict, a prostitute, poor, steal to make money, killed a man, had parents who were German spies, and was nearly convicted of arson does not make me a bad person, and you Mr. Devereux, will fall completely in love with me, whether you're too pig headed to admit it or not."
Yeah, she's quite a complicated MC =]
64,473 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2008 - 17 12
Quoted from one of my MC's:
“Sometimes, one must face their worst fears to bring out their gifted abilities.”
----------Amanda Panda
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2008: Mercury: Sci-Fi/YA: WON! 64,473
50,331 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2008 - 17 41
My Novel in one sentence?
"Fucked Up." xD joking.
hm, this is interesting but so hard!
I guess I'd go with:
"A guy with childhood issues-- and superpowers thrown into the mix-- has to face his biggest fear."
Such a generic story line and yet it has its purely unique moments =)
50,324 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2008 - 23 47
While coping with a difficult older parent, a middle age woman works together with neigbors, gang members, farmers and FBI to kick terrorist ass. --24 words baby!
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Dec 4, 2008 - 10 48
What happens when the world thinks you're Jesus?