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Gengar’s Camp NaNo July 23: Not My Circus



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Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:08 am
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GengarIsBestBoy says...



Perhaps my goal of completely editing all ten chapters before the end of the month would be done a lot faster if I would stop making dragon puppets

But then again, I need to make enough so that I can legally add “Master of (Dragon) Puppets” to my occupation list on my profile

I’ve done the prologue and the first 3 chapters
That’s the thing with life: no one makes it out alive.

—Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice the Musical

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Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:56 pm
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I’m editing my story to be more emotional and
I’m legit crying. omg this is so sad, what kind of evil author would do this?
That’s the thing with life: no one makes it out alive.

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Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:27 am
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Big update:

I’ve completed my goal; all 10 chapters are done and edited!

Not to get rambly, but when I started writing this, I seriously doubted myself. I expected this to be an overly ambitious project that I wouldn’t actually get done; it was more of an annoying brain child that kept begging me to be written.
But I got it done anyways, and that’s super awesome! I also think I’ve found new methods of writing that work for me, because before Camp NaNo I couldn’t write a lot at a time.

Oh, one more thing: I want to just state that it’s going to take a couple of chapters for the actual plot to kick in. Just wanna put that out there
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Sun Jul 30, 2023 2:38 am
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That's amazing!! Great job this Camp NaNo, Gengar!! =D
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Big congratulations!!
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Also here’s a line from chapter 10 because I think it’s funny

Keith could not contain his inner mythology nerd. […] Now that he thought about it, though, mythology was probably reality for some non-Earthlings.
That’s the thing with life: no one makes it out alive.

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Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:32 pm
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Oh, since I forgot about this:

Total Wordcount: 16,942

Also, I may just release the prologue as the first chapter instead. Initially, it was only a couple hundred words and was structured in a way that made sense for a prologue, but I completely re-worked it and it’s the length of a normal chapter.

Also, I’m kinda sad that I’m going to be losing the original prologue chapter title (“Don’t You See? I’m the Narrator and This is Just the Prologue”), but that was based on a song so I took a different lyric from the same song for the new chapter title (“I Believe This May Call for a Proper Introduction”)
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—Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice the Musical

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Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:52 am
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Not My Circus | Ch 1

I’ve published the first chapter!

(Btw, I’m not going to post any more chapter updates in here; I’m just putting the first one in here just cause I want to show progress I guess)
That’s the thing with life: no one makes it out alive.

—Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice the Musical

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It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien