Camp NaNo 2014- Day 05
Hello there, folks!
Tada :) I'm still at it and even in time. I didn't make it to daily entries here, and neither have I hit the right amount of words every day so far, but I did write something on a regular basis. That's pretty good for me so far. I didn't even restart, which is... something worth noticing with me. I might even stick with it all the way through and finish it at 50k. I'm keeping my fingers crossed there. If I write one chapter in four days, the story will be through with seven chapters, a prologue and an epilogue. Sounds fine with me.
Another thing that I'm doing for once is sticking with one real main character, one Point of View. Usually I have about eight of them (...and more), but I'm really challenging myself this time around. A new genre and a new way of storytelling all together. This time around, the Prologue is the end of the story, and then I write the chapter's 'backwards' start with the thing furthest off from the prologue, and with each chapter I get a year closer to what's happening - and the Epilogue will pick up where the Prologue left off. Or that's how I planned it. Other new things? I'm trying to not describe too much. My Main Character is actually... not clearly on the good side (I'm still not sure whether or not the term villian applies). I pretty much know where and how to end it. I'm also limiting the things my character actually sees, so it's a more unreliable third person narrator of sorts. Though it still is no first person narrator. I just don't like these. Or to be honest - I despise them so much when most people write them, that I'd hate to write them myself and end up despising my own story.
What else can I tell you? My cabinmates over at Camp NaNo are a nice bunch. We're twelve ( I think) with five or six active ones. Of those five or six ones I think four are on time, one is a head and then there's me, who's wavering between being on time and slightly late. It's also the first year people really talk about their novels. We're all writing something dystopean, and yesterday someone started a conversation on the horrible things we did to your characters so far. Boy, there's some serious mass murdering going on in our novels. I feel like I belong righ there ;)
But, I think I'll call it a night here for now. As the first chapter's done now, I'll post it. Don't be confused by it being called "VI". The next one will be "V" and so forth. A countdown of sorts, as I explained above. (And don't hit me for typos and grammar issues. I'm doing that myself already. It's hard to write something and not read through it again. My inner editor hates me.)
Tada :) I'm still at it and even in time. I didn't make it to daily entries here, and neither have I hit the right amount of words every day so far, but I did write something on a regular basis. That's pretty good for me so far. I didn't even restart, which is... something worth noticing with me. I might even stick with it all the way through and finish it at 50k. I'm keeping my fingers crossed there. If I write one chapter in four days, the story will be through with seven chapters, a prologue and an epilogue. Sounds fine with me.
Another thing that I'm doing for once is sticking with one real main character, one Point of View. Usually I have about eight of them (...and more), but I'm really challenging myself this time around. A new genre and a new way of storytelling all together. This time around, the Prologue is the end of the story, and then I write the chapter's 'backwards' start with the thing furthest off from the prologue, and with each chapter I get a year closer to what's happening - and the Epilogue will pick up where the Prologue left off. Or that's how I planned it. Other new things? I'm trying to not describe too much. My Main Character is actually... not clearly on the good side (I'm still not sure whether or not the term villian applies). I pretty much know where and how to end it. I'm also limiting the things my character actually sees, so it's a more unreliable third person narrator of sorts. Though it still is no first person narrator. I just don't like these. Or to be honest - I despise them so much when most people write them, that I'd hate to write them myself and end up despising my own story.
What else can I tell you? My cabinmates over at Camp NaNo are a nice bunch. We're twelve ( I think) with five or six active ones. Of those five or six ones I think four are on time, one is a head and then there's me, who's wavering between being on time and slightly late. It's also the first year people really talk about their novels. We're all writing something dystopean, and yesterday someone started a conversation on the horrible things we did to your characters so far. Boy, there's some serious mass murdering going on in our novels. I feel like I belong righ there ;)
But, I think I'll call it a night here for now. As the first chapter's done now, I'll post it. Don't be confused by it being called "VI". The next one will be "V" and so forth. A countdown of sorts, as I explained above. (And don't hit me for typos and grammar issues. I'm doing that myself already. It's hard to write something and not read through it again. My inner editor hates me.)