The author of my long time favorite webcomic, The Phoenix Requiem, has started posting daily journal entries by her characters (daily from their point of view, that is, to help keep track of time in the story). I think this is beyond fantastic, both because it does well with that narrative, and because I'd like to do the same thing.

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Yup yup yuppers.

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My muse ran off. Probably with some flighty dream, the fickle thing.

( Letters )

( Letters again )

You can tell this is going bad when the letter posts come with no actual story in between. Taking time off is never a good idea as far as NaNo goes; still trying to get back into it.

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Rough night. However, there may be something there that wasn't there before.
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Slow going calls for a coping mechanism. A lack of character deaths calls for letters over tombstones.

( Batch Two: To the Cast )

Another coping mechanism. character tombstones.

RIP Orion's mother
Hunting parties. They happen to the best of wolves.Um. I'm really, really sorry. I know being killed trying to protect your pup, only to have him adopted by a human is kind of... well, unacceptable, but he's really not doing that bad, all things considered. Give it another six ( Read more... )

A novel-writing coping mechanism I like particularly is writing letters to your characters, and letting them write back to you. From yesterday, here are the cast's to me:
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Tonight's french homework is to write a personal ad. I thought, well, this is NaNo, why not get into my characters' heads a bit? It's in both languages because blog_of_cool requested it thus, but pardon my french, for I am only a poor student, and very sleepy.

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