Nano Update

[jethrien]

Heading into the home stretch. It's pretty clear I'll make my 50,000 - I think I might even finish the damn story by the end of the month. I'm already looking forward to revising - there's so much I've learned, about writing and about my story itself, and so much I can fix. Of course, I'm not sure whether I've got the skill to fix all of it. But there are character arcs I'm only just realizing now that are happening that I have to go back and fix, and development I didn't have time to do, and world-building to flesh out, and some really awful terminology issues I need to figure out a solution to.

It's both worse and better than I'd feared or hoped. In some ways, I feel like I've built a really ridiculously detailed book outline over the course of the month, and when I've finished, I'll need to go back and actually fill in the rest of the book with all the bits that actually make you care as opposed to just what makes the plot tick along. At the same time, some of my characters are finally declaring what their personalities are (turns out, not what I originally thought at all, in some cases). One is far more vicious than I'd imagined, but it works. One is only just starting to figure out who she is.

OK, I'll stop babbling now.

Comments

[elissali.livejournal.com]

see, to me... that's what can be so awesome about NaNoWriMo. One doesn't have repeatable, great writing, or build the skills you need to be a novelist... but it does give you a taste of what it's like to write something and have it evolve, especially with the added time pressure forcing you to spend time on it. The first year I did it, I chose a story with only the barest sketch of the two main characters. Writing that story was like tuning in to my favorite show to see what happened next; the plot revealed itself to me like fog rolling back ahead of me. The details I was about to write were clear, but the larger plot was still unfolding. Big fun, in my opinion. :) I wish I'd had the time to do it this year. Maybe dushai and I will get off our butts in summer and do our own NoWriMo - we've talked about it before, because November is so bad what with fellowship apps and for him, WSL writing. :)

write like the wind!!! and *hugs*