Back Into The Flow Of Things
November 18th 2009 20:48
So I'm back into the flow of things, my mind is working after a brief OD on sleep, and I'm back to writing.
Now that Phoenix Falling is finished I'm working on something Entirely Different. It was supposed to be a book called Astarael, which was supposed to track Astarael's life, the building of the Drakor kingdom and all that good stuff.
Well, apparently, my muse has other ideas.
I'm now writing a novel entitled Snapshots, which isn't really a novel at this point, rather a connected group of short stories which all intertwine. Not every Snapshot is a story of it's own. They're kind of like chapters, but I'm not writing them in order.
This is a big experiment for me and as such is a big risk for me to do during Nanowrimo-I mean, I'm already almost 30, 000 words behind-and that's even having dropped my goal to 350K, and it could fail at any moment-but so far it's been working.
So far it has been mostly linear, but I can tell that soon enough my characters are going to start jumping around in terms of what they want me to write, where, and when. I'm pretty sure that this isn't going to become one cohesive novel at any point in time, rather a mess of background notes for a number of different books.
And of course Jihad, which first was one book and then decided it wanted to be seven, now wants to be ten.
Will it ever end?
Now that we're just past the halfway point, you might be slowing down. You might be thinking, oh, I can rest on my laurels and still win. Not so. You have to make an effort to write something every day-even just a paragraph or two-or you'll lose focus and you'll get derailed.
Go ahead and take one day off-but once you've taken more than two, you're running the risk of never catching up.
There is, on the other hand, still plenty of time to catch up-you just have to be willing to work at it every day.
More tomorrow.
Now that Phoenix Falling is finished I'm working on something Entirely Different. It was supposed to be a book called Astarael, which was supposed to track Astarael's life, the building of the Drakor kingdom and all that good stuff.
Well, apparently, my muse has other ideas.
I'm now writing a novel entitled Snapshots, which isn't really a novel at this point, rather a connected group of short stories which all intertwine. Not every Snapshot is a story of it's own. They're kind of like chapters, but I'm not writing them in order.
This is a big experiment for me and as such is a big risk for me to do during Nanowrimo-I mean, I'm already almost 30, 000 words behind-and that's even having dropped my goal to 350K, and it could fail at any moment-but so far it's been working.
So far it has been mostly linear, but I can tell that soon enough my characters are going to start jumping around in terms of what they want me to write, where, and when. I'm pretty sure that this isn't going to become one cohesive novel at any point in time, rather a mess of background notes for a number of different books.
And of course Jihad, which first was one book and then decided it wanted to be seven, now wants to be ten.
Will it ever end?
Now that we're just past the halfway point, you might be slowing down. You might be thinking, oh, I can rest on my laurels and still win. Not so. You have to make an effort to write something every day-even just a paragraph or two-or you'll lose focus and you'll get derailed.
Go ahead and take one day off-but once you've taken more than two, you're running the risk of never catching up.
There is, on the other hand, still plenty of time to catch up-you just have to be willing to work at it every day.
More tomorrow.
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