Stories of Significance
29
Nov
Thank you, thank you. I’d like to thank the academy.… Just kidding. But today I completed my 50 000 words for Nanowrimo this year, and a few hundred words after that I finished the actual story, very rough first draft. Phew! I am hoping to get in on Holly Lisle’s new class, How To Revise Your Novel (which this one will […]
Tags: Holly Lisle, Nanowrimo
28
Nov
25
Nov
Had an unexpected plot twist that really helped motivation for a planned event. Thank goodness I went with it when I wanted to write the death of the really bad guy instead of following the outline points! It has created a much more tempting internal conflict for our heroine and while it didn’t add a whole new scene, it makes the story […]
21
Nov
Well, I’m truly in the final stretch of this novel. The Great Betrayal has occurred, my protagonist doesn’t yet know what’s in store for her, but I do and it’s gonna be fun to write! I am writing the scenes to fit into the 50 000 word count. A few bits I wrote today could be expanded into full scenes of […]
20
Nov
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Nov
16
Nov
I’m looking forward to re-reading my story, if it counts as reading when you write it the first time. I’ve been able to enter the Nano flow so well, letting new things emerge and connect, it’s been really neat. A lot of the time I know I used the same word last sentence, and that people are nodding altogether too […]
Tags: Nanowrimo
12
Nov
I stopped writing today at just under a hundred words from the 20 000 word milestone. That’s pretty darn exciting. With several extra-writing projects requiring a lot of time and energy, this is particularly significant. Thankfully the words came easy today, as I was writing a fight scene. I hit a thousand words in just half an hour. So nothing profound to say here, just celebrating […]
10
Nov
I’m getting to a new meaty part, the second beginning almost concluded. There’s a lot of high action toward the end of this novel, but now I’m still putting in place relationships and politics and various more subtle forms of conflict that will eventually culminate in the exploding helicopters type of conflict. I did my best to plan each scene […]
Tags: Nanowrimo
8
Nov
This novel is following the ‘Three Act Structure’ commonly used. The first quarter of the book is the introductory Act 1, the next two quarters are the main story part as Act 2 and Act 3 is the climax and denoument, the final quarter of the book. I always struggle with beginnings. Middles and ends I’m quite good at, but […]
Tags: Nanowrimo
