Pre-Writing?

I don't pre-write. I just take really good notes. :) I write down the most important details of the scenes in my journal and reconstruct the image in my head on paper from the keywords when Nov. 1st rolls around. But I know that not everyone works from images in their head like a movie like I do.

Jen AKA Genji

~Nanowrimo is all about preventing the creative process from getting in the way of the creative process. ~

I generally do that, working on images I mean. The scenes usually play out in my head. The problem is that if I wait too long, the inspiration leaves me. At the same time, I don't want to start "early" on NaNo. I think I might go ahead and get started, take the bull by the horns. I'd hate for my idea to disappear just because I waited too long.

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
-James Michener

I'll admit I;m struggling with this.

I know I'm not a good writer. I'm kind of like those middle aged pudgy guys that suck at golf and play anyway.

My golf is writing.

I have an idea now that Im noting the heck out of...because I like it and I'm afraid it will go away.

If you really feel you need to start, you can just only count the words that you do once November starts.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~ Gene Roddenberry

I write scenes between the characters that don't take place in the book. This both stretches my writer's brain AND gives me a better grasp on the characters, while placating muses and not violating NaNo rules..

I'm busying myself with doing research for my story...

Seeing as I'm writing a book that has two contrasting settings (real life vs. virtual life) I have to essentially create my own MMO. I've decided to base it off Celtic mythology, and give the game a setting similar to that of Ireland landscape.

How fun @o@

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
-James Michener

This is what I do. And I write them all first-person from the character's point of view. Sometimes I write the same scene from multiple characters' points of view. Mostly this helps with characterization, but I've found it also helps develop plot and especially subplot. Sometimes, when I have a lot of time on my hands, I write scenes with characters I don't plan to use. This lets me expound on different physical areas of the world and gives me a feel for how I want my world to work and how the characters and general populace want the world to work.