| mscaramia | Doomsday is near |
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Oct 28, 2009 - 17 23 |
What are you all doing to prepare? Outlines? Going over potential dialogues in your mind? Character analysis? How do you do it??? How do you decide what you're going to write? I have my topic in mind but one of the things I keep playing with in my mind is the biggest decision of all - what perspective do I use? Or do throw myself a loop and flip perspectives? Love to hear what you are all experiencing. |
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Oct 28, 2009 - 19 45
I've had character outlines for a while, and a starting point, but I'm really just hoping that even though the initial fixation with the plot has worn off, I won't get bored and have to restart like I did last year.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 00 14
Oy vey! Such dilemmas I have!
First of all, yes, perspective is a biggie. I can't decide whether it needs to be in third person or first person, and if it is first person, which character should narrate. That is a major thing that needs to be resolved in the next couple of days.
Secondly, I need a mechanism for a certain event in the story...it is a critical and life-changing event for one of the protagonists, but I still have no idea how it happens.
Thirdly, I have no antagonist. No character, no force of nature, nothing...
Finally, I've no idea how it ends.
I say again: Oy. Vey.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 20 00
Actually, I've just had an idea I wanted to use for a while and figured this would be a good excuse. So far, there are only two characters, a title, a plot, and an opening line. The rest, I feel, will write itself. I think that's the beauty of NaNoWriMo.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 01 46
It's 2:34AM... Do you know where your Wrimo is?
I am chewing the Nano over real slow. I may even prepare an outline. I feel like I have been waiting for this forever, and yet I have only know about this site for five days.
Should probably get some sleep now.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 21 52
I decided I was going to do Nano this year maybe... a week or two ago. (the deciding factor was discovering that they are handwriter-friendly and I wouldn't need to type it all to win.) At that point, I had no idea what I was going to write about... then it just came to me. I don't know if it'll last 50k words, but I have a basic plot, and I'm certainly going to try!
POV has never been hard for me. The protagonist is the point of view. But if you want to use first person and can't decide who you want to narrate, you can always switch off narrators -- that's always interesting. Or if you write it one way, you can always change it in December when you go back to edit.
I made a vague sort of outline, but I'm not really an outline person. I never know how things will turn out until I reach the conclusion, because that's the way life is. I let the events unfold, let the characters act as they will. It often takes a different course from what I predicted, but I find that when you try to make things happen a certain way, it feels fake and doesn't flow right.
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