I've been writing a very broad outline, plenty of room to be flexible. It was going to be a romance, angst, and suspense type thing about when a 15 year old boy is kidnapped while his 23 year old brother is in the hospital with stage 3 kidney cancer. I've been planning to do it strickly from the kidnapped victim's point of view, but my characters don't want to coroperate with me. They insist on me writing half of it from the older brother's and police's point of view in their search of the boy, turning it into partly a mystery. I've never written a mystery in my life, and I don't know how to. I love reading them, not writing them. I've tried steering my characters away from that, but they were dragged kicking and screaming. They know what they want, and it isn't what I want. Should I change my plot?
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NaNo: 2008: A Strange Relationship Between Two Brothers (50 K)
NaNo: 2009: All to Save a Brother
Jamie has been kidnapped by a pervert, just to save Markie.
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Honestly, Sam, I would change it. NaNo is very much NOT the time to try and fight with your characters, especially when they're as strong willed as yours seem to be. You can always go back and re-write it when you're not working under a thirty day deadline :)
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OR continue the writing with the thought of dividing it into sections for the various points of view.
By the way, my first Nano was a mystery - and I'd never made an attempt either at a novel or a mystery before. It almost wrote itself. Unfortunately, it didn't complete itself. ;-)
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