| InjunJoe | Just trashed my entire plot |
   52,334 / 50,000 Joined: Okt 16, 2006
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Nov 3, 2009 - 08 15 |
But I like the MC so he gets to stay, and I'm keeping everything I wrote up to this point because it may be useful, it's fiction and it was written in November. Hey, it's only Nov 3, PLENTY of time left. Right? or is that Write? |
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Nov 3, 2009 - 09 13
Plenty of time. I like to tell people that my first Nano, I signed up on November 8th and started writing on the 9th, and still had completed 96K before the end of November.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 09 34
That's alright, I just trashed mine as well. Put all previously written in italics, and did a hard restart.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 18 13
No idea I'd have so much company in the plot-trashing department. I did the same thing on Day One, have worked on an outline the past three days, and now I'm revving the engine for a restart.
Can't get the pages back on the calendar though. If you master that time warp continuum thing, lemme know.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 21 19
I just did the same thing. (Buh-bye, historical fantasy! Hello, political satire!) However, the new plot is really making me fire on all cylinders, which the old one never did, so I'm optimistic about my chances despite the late start.
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Nov 6, 2009 - 20 22
Yeah, I trashed my entire plot after writing the prologue. It just seemed like it wasn't going to be fun to write. No more murder mystery with weird corporate greed undertones. A spy-ish sort of thing I think is going to be more fun. Now, I'm just kind of free writing the whole thing. We'll see if that works.
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Nov 12, 2009 - 07 41
I haven't yet trashed my plot. It still seems like it's got some promise, I'm just not at all sure I'm the person to fulfill that promise. Part of me wants to just chuck the whole thing and write 50,000 words of Harry/Draco smutty fanfic.
Maybe it would help if I tried to find parallels between my current characters and characters in Harry Potter. THOSE characters I know. Mine are still rather opaque. I don't know what they're doing, let alone why.
I'm sure if I keep plodding along, eventually we'll get to know each other, and maybe then things will get easier. *sigh*
Or... there's always a Dobby/Giant Squid romance just waiting to be written.
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