Out Living Life As Well As Writing About It
So it looks like I missed my first day of November blogging on here. There are worse things that could happen during November for sure.
I did buy my writer's notebook at about 2:00 p.m. today and then went home and took a nap while watching this special on the History Channel on what an earthquake would do to New York City. Here's a hint - total destruction. Kind of what like the mad writers of Chicago are going to do to them. As of yesterday evening, which was the last time I could actually get on the NANO site, we already had 10 people above 5,000 words. And my friend Mary was already at 20,000. That girl can flat out write.
Then my friend Samantha, who is also NANOing called saying how tough it was to write once she actually started.
She has written about three scenes and is only at 4,000 words. I told her that she needed to add more descriptions. She told me that she hadn't done much dialog yet and I told her that dialog is half the fun of NaNoWriMo. We ended up discussing it a lot. Sad thing is, she's got way more anecdotes to work in than I do. If I could borrow her life (she's writing semi-autobiographical) and work some of that in with my unlikeable characters (she hates movies with truly despicable types in them) and my dialog than together we could set the speed writing world on fire.
After that, I sat down for a solid hour and finished off the fight scene. I won't say what Kate and Andy fought about but it involved a different sort of stain than the cat left. I think it goes to the lengths (no pun intended) that the dysfunctionality of their relationship has reached before the reader is dropped in.
Tomorrow's (later today's) writing is going to involve Kate finally deciding to walk out of the situation and Andy searching for her all around town (using his cell phone of course since if he actually physically searched it would involve going out of the narrator's view.
I haven't plotted too far ahead so once the breakup happens, there's no saying where the path of the Little Green Envelope will go. I'm guessing he's going to go back to the warehouse where the reader gets to meet some other Little Green Envelopes and such. I know he's going to be sent to a cheesy party where Andy is going to show up so he can catch back up with his storyline soon after.
But I have no idea where it's going to go after that. So at about 10,000 words it's going to get difficult again. I'm just going to relish the words while they're still coming.
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Even though I wasn't writing tonight, I did do something speed writing related.
I went to see a play at former Editor Adam's theater. More to the point, I went to see a collection of 18 scenes. 9 of which were by the original playright, Suzan Lori-Parks and 9 of which were interpretations of the same name of the scene by Chicago playrights and other writers affiliated with the theater.
It was a great experiment in what different authors can do with the same starting point (in this case a name).
Even though some of the scenes left a lot to be desired.
It's off to sleep now though as I have to go into work tomorrow. After that, I hope to get to about 8,000 words (putting me a bit ahead of the game). But I'm sure I'll get distracted a bit more. The good thing is, I'm not falling behind. I'm just not getting ahead either.
I just have to start thinking further ahead. Something has to happen that's exciting. I just have to figure out what that is.
I did buy my writer's notebook at about 2:00 p.m. today and then went home and took a nap while watching this special on the History Channel on what an earthquake would do to New York City. Here's a hint - total destruction. Kind of what like the mad writers of Chicago are going to do to them. As of yesterday evening, which was the last time I could actually get on the NANO site, we already had 10 people above 5,000 words. And my friend Mary was already at 20,000. That girl can flat out write.
Then my friend Samantha, who is also NANOing called saying how tough it was to write once she actually started.
She has written about three scenes and is only at 4,000 words. I told her that she needed to add more descriptions. She told me that she hadn't done much dialog yet and I told her that dialog is half the fun of NaNoWriMo. We ended up discussing it a lot. Sad thing is, she's got way more anecdotes to work in than I do. If I could borrow her life (she's writing semi-autobiographical) and work some of that in with my unlikeable characters (she hates movies with truly despicable types in them) and my dialog than together we could set the speed writing world on fire.
After that, I sat down for a solid hour and finished off the fight scene. I won't say what Kate and Andy fought about but it involved a different sort of stain than the cat left. I think it goes to the lengths (no pun intended) that the dysfunctionality of their relationship has reached before the reader is dropped in.
Tomorrow's (later today's) writing is going to involve Kate finally deciding to walk out of the situation and Andy searching for her all around town (using his cell phone of course since if he actually physically searched it would involve going out of the narrator's view.
I haven't plotted too far ahead so once the breakup happens, there's no saying where the path of the Little Green Envelope will go. I'm guessing he's going to go back to the warehouse where the reader gets to meet some other Little Green Envelopes and such. I know he's going to be sent to a cheesy party where Andy is going to show up so he can catch back up with his storyline soon after.
But I have no idea where it's going to go after that. So at about 10,000 words it's going to get difficult again. I'm just going to relish the words while they're still coming.
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Even though I wasn't writing tonight, I did do something speed writing related.
I went to see a play at former Editor Adam's theater. More to the point, I went to see a collection of 18 scenes. 9 of which were by the original playright, Suzan Lori-Parks and 9 of which were interpretations of the same name of the scene by Chicago playrights and other writers affiliated with the theater.
It was a great experiment in what different authors can do with the same starting point (in this case a name).
Even though some of the scenes left a lot to be desired.
It's off to sleep now though as I have to go into work tomorrow. After that, I hope to get to about 8,000 words (putting me a bit ahead of the game). But I'm sure I'll get distracted a bit more. The good thing is, I'm not falling behind. I'm just not getting ahead either.
I just have to start thinking further ahead. Something has to happen that's exciting. I just have to figure out what that is.
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