NaNoWriMo – Day Seven – 6055
Terrible, just terrible.
I should have 11,669 words by now, and I’m nowhere near that number. Worse yet, my plot seems to be falling apart. After getting stuck on a scene for more than an afternoon, I decided to outline my entire story, chapter by chapter, breaking things down to specific scenes and what happens in them. And then I realized that my characters didn’t really have much to do.
If I continue things as they are, pretty soon my flimsy plot is gonna rip, and even the characters will be wondering what the heck they’re supposed to be doing. They need a reason to be meeting, to be doing the things they’re doing, and the Devil (I have a Devil character) needs a reason for not just gobbling the world up and spitting it out (he can do that if he wanted to, you know). I need a reason for everything, and the reasons just don’t seem to be coming to me.
I’m considering changing stories. The Hand of God is a great concept, but trying to make it fit NaNoWriMo I tried putting the concept and characters into a forced plot that was bound to unravel. And now, 6055 words into my story, things are starting to make no sense. Hrm.
(Still, I love my characters. ^__^ I can’t wait to create a plot that they would fit nicely into.)
So. What to do, what to do? Should I proceed with this thing, try to make it work along the way, eventually either landing Gold or falling in Shite? Or should I go with a plot I’ve been working on for years that’s sure to have less kinks in its fabric but doesn’t have much of a theme? Or, there’s this other story I’m considering that I haven’t spent much time thinking about, but has the potential for a solid plot, some romance and really wicked action?
*le sigh* This NaNoWriMo business is tough.
I think for now I’ll work out the plot lines of these three things, and by midnight I’ll (hopefully) decide what to go with. And then, I’ll work like hell to catch up with the word count. I’m already more than five thousand words behind schedule.
Darn it.
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