Discussions at the write-in today showed that these pesky novels of ours have a habit of taking us off to places we weren't expecting, which made me think it might be fun to compare notes as we enter the final week.
If you fancy joining in, list 3 things that you have planned for your novel before the end of NaNo.
Then when you win (note when, not if!), please report back and tell us how many of these actually happened/ what happened instead.
Here's mine:-
1) My female skeleton is going to get all her flesh back overnight. (Too predictable?!)
2) My main character is going to get arrested for something petty as a wake-up call.
3) A much-loved treehouse is going to meet a sorry end.
What are you going to make your characters do this week? Do you think they'll oblige, or have they developed preferences of their own?
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
NaNoWriMo 2006 - When It Got Warmer - won
NaNoWriMo 2007 - Empathology - won
50,163 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2007 - 13 39
Mmmm... I'm not sure I have 3 plot points left, LOL
1) the conspirators go on trial
----------2) my main character gets married
3) ummm... oh yes. The Big Bads decide to try again... ;)
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Winner, 2007: "Baptism of Fire"
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2007 - 14 12
Hmmm...
The agents are currently en route to NYC with the explosives expert, to put a stop to the bombs about to go off... so...
1) they successfully manage to disarm all the bombs, but find out there was one not on the Group's list, and so the explosives expert couldn't warn them about that
----------2) they hot foot it over to the new bomb's location, but don't manage to stop it - boom!
3) one of them dies, the other three are seriously injured, and so the rest of the novel is then hospital, and beginning to grieve for their lost colleague (part of the end scene is actually the opening scene of the book, except you don't know then, who Vaughn is grieving for, or who is comforting him)
BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131
61,353 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2007 - 14 14
Heh. I get to spend this week changing what tense almost all of my novel is written in. Fun!
50,163 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2007 - 14 16
NaNoEdMo starting early for you then ;)
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Winner, 2007: "Baptism of Fire"
55,139 / 50,000
Dec 5, 2007 - 05 01
So did your characters do what they were supposed to, after all?
1) My female skeleton decided she wanted a much bigger build-up before she had her big "Wow!" moment. She's still not there yet.
2) My main character didn't get arrested, but her best friend did on a teenage drink-fulled night out. Still a pretty good wake-up call.
3) I couldn't ditch the treehouse. There was a fire, but it got repaired afterwards.
I've written a few more thousand words and there's still no sign of it finishing...
How about you?
Emma
----------"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
NaNoWriMo 2006 - When It Got Warmer - won
NaNoWriMo 2007 - Empathology - won
50,163 / 50,000
Dec 5, 2007 - 07 38
I've written exactly 16 words since I crossed the threshold on Friday - I'm taking a well earned break from writing ;) I may go back to it between now and Christmas though, there's still a couple of chapters to write.
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Winner, 2007: "Baptism of Fire"
50,246 / 50,000
Dec 6, 2007 - 05 11
The agents are currently en route to NYC with the explosives expert, to put a stop to the bombs about to go off... so...
1) they successfully manage to disarm all the bombs, but find out there was one not on the Group's list, and so the explosives expert couldn't warn them about that
2) they hot foot it over to the new bomb's location, but don't manage to stop it - boom!
3) one of them dies, the other three are seriously injured, and so the rest of the novel is then hospital, and beginning to grieve for their lost colleague (part of the end scene is actually the opening scene of the book, except you don't know then, who Vaughn is grieving for, or who is comforting him)
Did all these :-)
Haven't touched the novel since, but I have been wanting to revisit last year's instead...
----------BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131