It's that time of month where a bajillion writers gather to cram out a 50,000 word novel in a moth. YAY for National Novel Writing Month! I totally love this program. I heard about it in 2010 for the first time a few days into the session. Needless to say, I didn't start because HELLO, what was I going to be writing? Okay moving on, so next year I was totally determined to do it. So I did. I grabbed a random idea from my Idea Bank, one that was from a genre I didn't even know how to write, wrote my butt off and ended up this:
Okay, so I love the concept of Nanowrimo and that fact that it helped me push and get my first DRAFT finished. Cuz, trust me, I've got a lot of UNFINISHED ones on the shelf. I'm already getting into the swing of things and planning my new hit. I"m REALLY excited about this book. I've been playing with it alot in the past couple months and just planning things as basic as a Power Balance (YES THERE IS MAGIC!) is so much fun.
But honestly I'm hitting the SAME road block I hit last year. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN MY BOOK? I mean I know like two scenes a few flimsy plo thappenings, but the one thing that is still veiled is ....Who are you Villain? What is your Goal? Characters are totally irritating sometimes. Trust me, I have dealt with some SASSY people in my brain.
Sometimes I try to force them to tell me what is going to happen and about themselves. But that just makes my brain hurt. Other times I just wait till they come to me. But that can take a long time! So I really don't have an honestly good solution to this problem.
How do you connect to your characters? Do you run through exercises A list of questions? Take a field trip? Spill the Beans - I mean, share the beans- I'd love to get some tips.....
.........from my currently non-existent audience! ;)
