NaNo ’08 – Days 1 to 3
Putting faces to names
writing
Carnivalesque
I'm starting to hear my main character's voice in my head while I write. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?! I can tell I'm deep into the story now, because I tend to think almost hyperactively, type furiously and flit around the house doing this and that and so-many-different-things-all-at-the-same-time. Phew! Either way,…
Hypnagogic
After last night's 11pm coffee fix, I almost couldn't turn my brain off, and ended up writing for another 3 hours. I suppose I shouldn't complain – there was a time where words failed to come to me at all, so really the inconvenience of having to get out of bed at 3am, turn the…
Room With A View
After brainstorming on 4 different short story ideas over the past week, I finally settled on one for my entry for the Candlelight Anthology. t took me 2 days and approx. 6 pages of handwritten notes to flesh out the plot and piece it together so it made sense, but having finally decided that I…
Gettin’ Dirty
This afternoon, I've been tracing plot threads, and fleshing out the personalities of my characters with their deeper motivations. I feel like much of my outline is still very disjointed, with abandoned ideas needing to be weeded out so I can see the whole story more clearly. But today is the first day in a…
The End Is Nigh
The end is in sight, and I now have something to strive for