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Novel Novels
Nov. 11th, 2008 12:56 pmHmm, this whole NaNoWriMo thing is pretty interesting. I think that what will pass for a novel in my case will end up being a collection of various wistful thoughts and ideas put into action by a very small cast of characters--somewhere between 2 and 4 people.
I have started writing character sketches in my mind, but haven't yet committed them to the fragments because I'm saving them for a moment when I'm feeling relatively uncreative and just want to paint a verbal picture of a person.
It's kind of fun, this whole writing of fiction business. You can make characters do whatever you want. But it's challenging, too, to keep them from flying from one place to another without explanation. And I'm finding it odd to dash back and forth between material events and the mental space of my protagonist. She's a pretty confused person.
The best part is that my protagonist can take immediate action on many things that usually leave me feeling wistful--for example, today she and her partner (they're awkwardly not married) went backpacking to the ocean in Washington.
I have so far to go. I've only written 2,000 words. But on the other hand, structuring the whole writing process in terms of word goals is nifty because there's incentive to produce some kind of tangible outcome, even if it's terrible and dashes all over the place and just ends up sounding like a whole lot of homesickness.
Not all of it will be homesickness, though, because I have to work in a Scrabble game at some point, and the Scrabble game is most strongly tied to *this* place, Arizona, in my psyche. In the very least, *I* will find it interesting.
I have started writing character sketches in my mind, but haven't yet committed them to the fragments because I'm saving them for a moment when I'm feeling relatively uncreative and just want to paint a verbal picture of a person.
It's kind of fun, this whole writing of fiction business. You can make characters do whatever you want. But it's challenging, too, to keep them from flying from one place to another without explanation. And I'm finding it odd to dash back and forth between material events and the mental space of my protagonist. She's a pretty confused person.
The best part is that my protagonist can take immediate action on many things that usually leave me feeling wistful--for example, today she and her partner (they're awkwardly not married) went backpacking to the ocean in Washington.
I have so far to go. I've only written 2,000 words. But on the other hand, structuring the whole writing process in terms of word goals is nifty because there's incentive to produce some kind of tangible outcome, even if it's terrible and dashes all over the place and just ends up sounding like a whole lot of homesickness.
Not all of it will be homesickness, though, because I have to work in a Scrabble game at some point, and the Scrabble game is most strongly tied to *this* place, Arizona, in my psyche. In the very least, *I* will find it interesting.
