NaNoWriMo is approaching, and she’s coming fast.

I’m currently plotting a story on my wall, pics to come when I buy some batteries.

Hopefully I can get the NaNo Tracker working and let you see how I’m doing throughout the month.

Wish me luck, and good luck to all of you out there participating!

So…  200 words in, 5 days left…
I don’t think I’m going to finish in time.
Sorry folks?

I’ll still work on it and update things blog, but November was filled with work and tests, so I put those at higher priority since I now have to pay for schooling…
So yeah, sorry.  School came first.

NaNoWriMo has begun!

My banner has shown up, and I’m still at 0 words.  I better get started as should you!

Unlike some people, I’ve read about on the NaNoWriMo forums, I’m hoping to get a sensible piece of work out of NaNoWriMo.  I understand that most decent novels aren’t written within 30 days, but with some good planning, I think something decent could be created.

I don’t have pictures at the moment, but when I do get them, I’ll upload them immediately, but here’s how I’m plotting the novel so far.

I bought a pack of post-it notes.  On one post it note, I wrote where I wanted to have the novel start.  On another post-it note, I wrote where I wanted to have the novel end.  I tried to be descriptive enough for me to remember what the scene means and some major events that happen in that scene.

I place them on my wall work area a decent place apart.  Then on the other post-it notes, I write out different scenes I would like to include in the storyline.  I place all of them on the work area as well.  I then attempt to arrange them in a way that will make sense and aid the story.  I’ll add and remove more post-it-scenes in order to make the story complete.

The same thing can be done with bubbles on paper, but I find post-it’s easier to remove and change than redrawing lines and erasing multiple times.

Another thing I do is character sheets.  Since my main setting is a school, I put their friends, schedule, and anything else that could be helpful on the sheet.  I usually do this prior to the post-it-plot because it helps to keep things sound.  I don’t want to have the characters in the same class one scene, and in another scene their schedules are completely different.  I also don’t want to have them bump into each other in a location that seems off (although, there can always be an excuse provided).

I also draw out where certain areas are.  I don’t get to specific, only the places where different scenes take place.  This allows me to decide which scenes seem geographically logical and help to think up other scenes I might want or need.

It’s up to each writer how much they hope to outline prior to beginning, but I’m trying to get enough ideas to write a sensible 50,000 words than to start adding random things to my text.  I also hope that I don’t have to resort to stretching my way to 50,000 words by stating full names all the time, removing hypens between words, making a single word multiple, or avoid contractions in speech.  I hope to keep the characters true to the text and stuff.

NaNoWriMo is coming up!

The book I will be working on this NaNoWriMo is called “Reveries.”

Well, this is the first NaNoWriMo I will be participating in.  I think I picked a bad time to start since I’m busy the whole month, but I figured I’ll put my freetime into it and hopefully produce something nice.  I’ll be sharing excerpts of it, so I hope anyone who reads it will enjoy it.

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