Week Two NaNo Update
NaNo is going slowly. I've been hovering just above 20,000 words all week. It's not that I'm not writing. It's that I've reached the stage in this novel where I am fixing inconsistencies. That means I'm editing and re-writing as much as I'm writing.
Yes, yes, I know. Save the editing for December. But I want this novel done. I want it done this month. I want to be able to send it off to a beta reader on December first and say here you go! Give me your thoughts in the spring.
At 150K, I've certainly surpassed NaNo's goal. I've passed the end of the story and gone back in to edit, which was my goal. Whether I reach 180K or not, I'm considering this month a success.
Though sometime in December I'm going to have to lay out a timeline of how things happen. I have no idea what kind of timeframe my story takes place in, and once they're given a deadline, that actually kind of matters.
And I've realized my MCs never lose a fight. Granted, people tend to die in the fights they get in so they can't really die, but still. Gary Stus, anyone? They get injured (slightly) but they never actually lose. How can I make them lose without dying?
And it's entirely possible that all of my LGBTQA characters are non-human*. Um, yeah, that's a problem. That will have to be adjusted. It shouldn't be hard, but I will have to make sure to reference it in story, not just in my character notes. I'm with a number of other people on this - if it only happens by author's word of god after publishing, it doesn't count.
*= With the possible exception of Ano, though he's more straight-except-for-Yaki, rather than bi or anything else. (Heteroflexible maybe? Ano's of the "fuck it" opinion when it comes to what to label him, so I don't know. He's not talking.)
Yes, yes, I know. Save the editing for December. But I want this novel done. I want it done this month. I want to be able to send it off to a beta reader on December first and say here you go! Give me your thoughts in the spring.
At 150K, I've certainly surpassed NaNo's goal. I've passed the end of the story and gone back in to edit, which was my goal. Whether I reach 180K or not, I'm considering this month a success.
Though sometime in December I'm going to have to lay out a timeline of how things happen. I have no idea what kind of timeframe my story takes place in, and once they're given a deadline, that actually kind of matters.
And I've realized my MCs never lose a fight. Granted, people tend to die in the fights they get in so they can't really die, but still. Gary Stus, anyone? They get injured (slightly) but they never actually lose. How can I make them lose without dying?
And it's entirely possible that all of my LGBTQA characters are non-human*. Um, yeah, that's a problem. That will have to be adjusted. It shouldn't be hard, but I will have to make sure to reference it in story, not just in my character notes. I'm with a number of other people on this - if it only happens by author's word of god after publishing, it doesn't count.
*= With the possible exception of Ano, though he's more straight-except-for-Yaki, rather than bi or anything else. (Heteroflexible maybe? Ano's of the "fuck it" opinion when it comes to what to label him, so I don't know. He's not talking.)