Showing Its Origins
I’m running the NaNovel through critique group right now, and even though I made several passes through it and tried to flesh it out, it’s still kind of rushed. It used to feel very much like… if you’ve ever heard Jaws, the screenreading...A farewell to pantsing?
If I look back over the stories I think have been the most successful and easiest to write, they have something in common. A sense of structure. Even before I wrote the first word I had some idea of the story’s structure. It’s a lot easier to write that...I haven’t been plotting enough.
What with all the NaNoEdMo and hurricane story revisions, I must not be doing enough plotting. I’m having really narrative dreams again. Tonight’s was a murder trial, the witness in danger from a serial killer, the people trying to save her life, and...I take it back.
The hurricane story is not the literary equivalent of a Rorschach test. Out of seven Critters critiques, I had four full groks, two partial groks, and an “Oh, God. Your story is so long and it has so many characters and I give up! I’m not even going to...I should be editing, but no.
I’m distracted by my first Critters critique for the hurricane story, which I expected. I always think I’m being obvious when I write. I give the story to Brian, who understands it completely and effortlessly. I sent it in for critique. *Wonk!* Now,...Cheerleading!
From Jennifer Pelland, a discussion on the importance of having a writing cheerleader. I actually tried to do that with NaNoWriMo on a sikrit friends-only LJ, but no one commented, alas. Maybe I should have mentioned that was my plan. What, my friends aren’t all...Or, maybe what I need is a lack of distractions.
1533 words written today, for a total of 4582. That’s almost NaNoWriMo productive. Note to self: Distraction=Evil.No, it’s definitely stalled.
I’m not sure what’s up with the story, but it’s at 3049 words and just doesn’t want to move at all. Maybe this is the equivalent of the NaNoWriMo week two, and I should try to plow forward. Maybe I should set an arbitrary wordcount and do it...200 words, yay! or something.
Last night, I added 200 words to a story I hadn’t touched in over a year. I really like the story, so I hope this means I’m going to finish it now. Of course, I’m also wibbling that I think you can tell where the join is, blah blah, but I should just...Subscribe
