In which Sky talks about NaNoWriMo things.
Nov. 4th, 2011 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cerulean_sky• NaNoWriMo has started (obviously) and I am writing. Slowly, but surely. I am several thousand words behind (at 3026 currently, when today's goal is 6666) so I don't know if I can catch up. I think if there were a couple nights when I wrote 2k words I would be able to, but I haven't yet managed that. We'll see.
• Unfortunately, I don't have an antagonist for my novel yet and, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girasola pointed out, having one might come in handy. I have a small conflict that I am going to use, and I shoehorned a character in to do so, but it's not going to be enough for the thing as a whole. It really is only going to affect the two of the main characters. So I am pondering this.
• I am also pondering how my main main character meets two of the other four main characters. Two I have down (or have planned in my head) but the other two are a little more nebulous. To be fair, so are those characters, so maybe if I had a firmer grasp of who they were, I would be able to figure out how to have everyone get to know each other properly.
• Wow, trying to talk about this without revealing anything about the story is hard.
• I am worried about other writing during NaNoWriMo. As a student getting a degree in Creative Writing, I have to actually do some writing for my classes. I have 2 papers to write during the month of November, not to mention the Peter Pan story I am working on which I still want to use for my workshop day in one of my classes. And I have to write a creative non-fiction piece (which will likely have some of my thoughts on Fantasy in it, so it won't be entirely disconnected from the things I love). That's a lot of words that don't go towards my novel. And it would obviously be cheating to count them as such. So. I feel like there's only so much writing I can do, and that writing things not for NaNoWriMo will distract me and make my wordcount drop. :/ Maybe I will just have to buck up and do them both. Like a reasonable and normal person would.
• I don't really read when I am writing. It's weird. Not out of any design, but because I am putting all my energy into either writing or thinking about my writing and thus don't even consider picking up a book (or reading fic). I really ought to see about changing that somewhat for this NaNoWriMo as there are no movies that I own (except maybe A Midsummer Night's Dream or the Lord of the Rings movies) that are inspiring for the particular thing I'm writing. I ought to read bit and pieces of things that are related to my topic.girasola once pointed out that my research methods were kind of meta, and yeah, that might be true. But they're also entertaining.
• Unrelated to NaNoWriMo: I'm going to see In Time with a friend tonight. It has lots of awesome people in it, so hopefully it will be at least entertaining.
That's all.
• Unfortunately, I don't have an antagonist for my novel yet and, as
girasola pointed out, having one might come in handy. I have a small conflict that I am going to use, and I shoehorned a character in to do so, but it's not going to be enough for the thing as a whole. It really is only going to affect the two of the main characters. So I am pondering this.• I am also pondering how my main main character meets two of the other four main characters. Two I have down (or have planned in my head) but the other two are a little more nebulous. To be fair, so are those characters, so maybe if I had a firmer grasp of who they were, I would be able to figure out how to have everyone get to know each other properly.
• Wow, trying to talk about this without revealing anything about the story is hard.
• I am worried about other writing during NaNoWriMo. As a student getting a degree in Creative Writing, I have to actually do some writing for my classes. I have 2 papers to write during the month of November, not to mention the Peter Pan story I am working on which I still want to use for my workshop day in one of my classes. And I have to write a creative non-fiction piece (which will likely have some of my thoughts on Fantasy in it, so it won't be entirely disconnected from the things I love). That's a lot of words that don't go towards my novel. And it would obviously be cheating to count them as such. So. I feel like there's only so much writing I can do, and that writing things not for NaNoWriMo will distract me and make my wordcount drop. :/ Maybe I will just have to buck up and do them both. Like a reasonable and normal person would.
• I don't really read when I am writing. It's weird. Not out of any design, but because I am putting all my energy into either writing or thinking about my writing and thus don't even consider picking up a book (or reading fic). I really ought to see about changing that somewhat for this NaNoWriMo as there are no movies that I own (except maybe A Midsummer Night's Dream or the Lord of the Rings movies) that are inspiring for the particular thing I'm writing. I ought to read bit and pieces of things that are related to my topic.
girasola once pointed out that my research methods were kind of meta, and yeah, that might be true. But they're also entertaining.• Unrelated to NaNoWriMo: I'm going to see In Time with a friend tonight. It has lots of awesome people in it, so hopefully it will be at least entertaining.
That's all.
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on 2011-11-05 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-11-05 04:42 am (UTC)Hm. Or maybe it does.
On the other hand, that likely means I need a fifth main character for my main-main character to be with in the end.
Hm. That might actually work.
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on 2011-11-05 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-11-05 04:51 am (UTC)I don't know much other than that. Hm.
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on 2011-11-05 04:55 am (UTC)IDK. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF A PLAAAAAN.
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on 2011-11-05 04:59 am (UTC)DON'T FRET.
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on 2011-11-05 05:06 am (UTC)I AM FRETTING. I AM FRETTING A LOT.
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on 2011-11-05 05:09 am (UTC)But keep meditating on what your MC wants. I know that can be a very hard question to answer when the characters come to you without a complete story. I find it easier in some ways to deal with stories that come plot first and characters second, but I am rarely that lucky.
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on 2011-11-05 05:32 am (UTC)I tend to get premises before I get plots. And characters often come with the premise. (I had to explain why the two are different to my writing class a few weeks ago, and I was sad. "How do you not know what a plot is?")
But yes. I am meditating on my MC. And the others. And an antagonist. Because that might solve my problems.
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on 2011-11-05 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-11-05 05:56 am (UTC)On a totally related note: I went to a lecture by Mr. Starr tonight about The Republic.
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on 2011-11-05 06:15 am (UTC)We spent most of an entire seminar trying to figure out what the analogy that this one girl was saying was.
I finally got up and drew it on the board and was like, "OKAY, GOT IT? GOOD."
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