... of the story I had planned to write, I paused to think. My mind began to turn as I listened to the song currently queued in my playlist ran through my head and formed another plot, completely different, albeit still fantasy, formed. I had to at least get the beginnings of it down before it disappeared, as I have a horrible memory and must write things down or they will be lost to the chaos that is my head.
I now have two plots and two beginnings to stories. And I'm torn as to what to continue with.
Do any of you have similar stories, or just other funny/disastrous, from the first day of NaNoWriMo?
Sean
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36,097 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 40
Just pick one and keep going; don't kill the other one, you can always come back to it during the off-season.
This is actually a far more regular occurrence than most people realize - after spending weeks prepping a story it is not unusual for the real story your subconscious wanted to write to come billowing to the surface. We often have no idea what the story is, until we sit down and knock all the dust loose in our brain.
Have a look at the two of them and see which one strikes you as more appealing. Often it ends up as the one which will be more fun to write, but not always.
=Betty=
----------(Who was really clunking along until she introduced her secondary character, who owes a serious stylistic nod to John Ringo's "Cally O'Neal", and discovered that she [a] has a big mouth and [b] is entirely too much fun to write and may end up hijacking my story....)
Participant / Winner: 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 ...09
Winnipeg, MB Municipal Liaison: 04, 05, 06*, 07*, 08*, 09*
* with help
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36,670 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 07 56
I had something similiar happen last year. I'd spent a couple weeks on prep for that year's NANO then two days before the started a new idea hit. I had to force myself to stick with the original. Ever time something new for that idea would pop in to my head I would write it down and then go back to the planned NANO. in the end I had a pretty decent collection of ideas for the new story.
That idea from last year turned in to this years Nanowrimo and now has a year worth of prep and thought behind it.
----------Blog - http://betweentheticks.blogspot.com/
Web Novel Carpe Arcanum - http://www.carpearcanum.com
44,897 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 09 31
What I'm writing now was not what I originally intended to write. My original plan was laid down as far back as last winter. I guess this isn't the same as it wasn't last minute, but my current plot jumped into my head in early summer and wouldn't be ignored. A month or two later, another completely different plot hopped in. I currently have three full plots vying for control of my brain. Based on the first day of writing, this may become a distraction.
----------http://hypnerdic.wordpress.com/
http://z3.invisionfree.com/10kClub/
http://twitter.com/Zenbomb
3,300 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 11 30
I have had an idea for the past couple of weeks and was researching it daily.... Last week it seemed to lose all steam and 3 or 4 ideas began to pop in my head to replace it. I had no idea where I was going to go when I finally sat down to begin yesterday. Just as a tried to open my office program a virus ate my PC. I ended up staying up very late fixing it and only put about 500 words down. I think I have found my stride and already dropped almost another 2000 words today. I don't know where I am headed.... but at least at the moment I am moving.
46,291 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 15 49
I think it's normal for our stories to swoop and swerve - - part of the creative process. must .. focus on daily word count, can't... stop now...
42,693 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 17 54
My plot is currently vying for space with homework, Gulliver's Travels in particular. However my growing dislike of homework has been excellent novel fodder, and very liberating to be able to tell a fictional teacher just exactly what I think of GT at the moment.
----------NaNo 2008 - Death Sentence (won - 90,112)
NaNo 2009 - Shift
40,025 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 18 43
I think you're normal, and don't loose the other story.
Last year was my first, and I finally wrote the story that has been in my head for several years. It changed as I wrote. (I think all that thinking made my plot way to complex.)
This year, I didn't even know what I was going to write about until two weeks ago. Since then, another story, in a very different genre has popped into my head. I'm leaving to perk back there and will use it to begin the 10K month group.
And an interesting thing is happening with this very fresh story of mine - it's writing itself almost.
Lady Bhugg