NaNoWriMo: Day 21
Wow. How did that number get so big? Apparently November is slipping by as fast as the rest of the year.
Yesterday, I wrote a little bit for the first time in…seven or eight days. Yes, I’ve done it again and saved all the work for the last week and a half. I don’t know why I can’t just be normal and write a little every day like everyone else.
Current word count is 22,079. About 4,000 from the past 24 hours.
The story itself is absolutely laughable. I don’t think I have enough plot to believably fill the 50,000 words, so it’s become almost a character study—getting into the brains of multiple characters, playing around with dialogue, and realizing that the main character I intended to write about is by far the most boring one in the story. Bummer.
I guess that’s NaNoWriMo for you.
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Joshua H on 22 Nov 2009 at 7:57 am #
I’m sure you can turn around your ‘boring character”. Monotone speeches are boring but people who speak that way can be really funny ( I’m thinking of Cameron’s speech on joy which was anything but boring
Alex B. on 22 Nov 2009 at 11:56 pm #
I agree with Joshua. You should have you “boring character” do something like a….like a…..uh oh……ummm……______beeeep…light bulb fizzles out. I hate it when that happens. Oh well just have him do something different, big, heroic, unexpected. You get the idea
your have way, keep going.
God bless,
Alex
Ben on 23 Nov 2009 at 7:01 pm #
You know, your main character can be boring. Just have some unexpected things happen around the character, you can make the characters reaction normal, or way over react/under react…
You see before you a blank character, make something out of it.
Laura on 26 Nov 2009 at 11:27 am #
Happy Thanksgiving, Beth! I have had a great time getting to know you these past couple months.
Have a blessed day!
~Laura
ps: congrats on getting over 35K!
Ben C on 27 Nov 2009 at 10:13 am #
*starts chant* more excerpts, more excerpts, more excerpts!!!
Ooh, and… idea for “boring” characters, whenever you think it’s helpless, and the character refuses to be exciting…
Kill him.
lol!
A Messenger of Christ on 29 Nov 2009 at 3:26 pm #
50,246 words!!! *YOU DID IT YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhh!!!* Congratulations!!!!!! Can we see it when your done putting the final touches on it!?!?!?!
Great job,
Alex
Laura on 30 Nov 2009 at 11:52 am #
YAY BETH FOR GETTING OVER 50K!!!!!!!!!! *gives her a HUGE bag of cookies and chocolate and all sorts of other goodies*
~Laura who won NaNo as well with 50,014.
Joy on 30 Nov 2009 at 2:06 pm #
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! GO BETH! GO BETH! 50246 words! **everyone claps**
Way da go! Seriously, I could NEVER do that. 