No Internet access at home, so I’m now hiking up to the local library in order to get my daily fix. Maybe some regular out-of-the-house time will be good for me?
Work continues on my NaNoNovel, even though November is over. I’m currently back in the outlining stage, as it turns out I didn’t do as good a job as I thought I had, and I’m flailing about a bit. I’ve been listening to my characters, and they’re all “We’re all fine here, thanks”, so I need to check what my bad guys are wanting to do in order to shake things up a bit and get them moving.
I’m also pondering whether I can actually continue with the first-person perspective I started with, or should I rewrite in the more usual third-person limited. It would free me up somewhat – as it stands, everything has to be seen or heard by Betto, my ex-monk, and letting go of that would allow me to spend time with other characters. But on the other hand, it would be a lot of work, and on the other other hand, I quite like what I’ve got so far, and don’t see that changing perspective will necessarily make it better.
As I’m no longer NaNo-ing, however, I may take some time out here and there to work on other projects, such as The Eleven Second Club, which is a monthly character animation competition. Plus, Intrepid should be needing new CGI soon.
All in all, life goes on.
Tags: diary, NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo 2007
To stay with the 1st person POV, what about some “I later found out from X that Y happened. If I’d known that at the time I would/wouldn’t have….”. He could bump into people that just happen to know what Z said to A about B, which is vital to the tale…… Being the genre it is, can you employ witcher/seers/runes?!?!?!?
My only other comment (gleaned from some book or other on Creative Writing) would be to hold off on a major re-write until you have something resembling your Compleat Fyrst Drafte. Then you can play around. Otherwise (at least for me) you only ever get half way thru the story, as one keeps on re-working the beginning…. but that might just be me!
Well, I certainly plan to get my first draft in before attempting to edit. As I have heard several times, “The scene doesn’t have to be perfect. The scene has to be written.”