pre-nano jitters
Getting both excited and a little daunted by NaNoWriMo. I am nearly as ready as I can be, though I am still missing some key pieces of characterization. Though, thinking about it, a lot of the time, I learn just as much about the characters as I do about the plot while actually writing.
My biggest problem right now is that I still don't know what my main character's primary motivator is. I don't know what he wants. Though thinking about it, maybe he doesn't either. Maybe the majority of the story is him going along with what everyone tells him he is supposed to be doing, and then at some point he figures it out. And in fact, I already know when he "figures it out" and it wouldn't be too much more to have him figure that part out, too. If I can't figure it out by then, I am having some serious issues anyway.
I have been working on making a video. I was using Windows Movie Maker, but it wasn't working quite as well as I wanted, so I downloaded another program, which I can't remember the name of right now, and is working quite a bit better. But I get distracted rather easily so it is still going rather slowly. ;-) I am doing a Heroes vid with the song "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars. And my OCD/perfectionist tendencies are showing.
My biggest problem right now is that I still don't know what my main character's primary motivator is. I don't know what he wants. Though thinking about it, maybe he doesn't either. Maybe the majority of the story is him going along with what everyone tells him he is supposed to be doing, and then at some point he figures it out. And in fact, I already know when he "figures it out" and it wouldn't be too much more to have him figure that part out, too. If I can't figure it out by then, I am having some serious issues anyway.
I have been working on making a video. I was using Windows Movie Maker, but it wasn't working quite as well as I wanted, so I downloaded another program, which I can't remember the name of right now, and is working quite a bit better. But I get distracted rather easily so it is still going rather slowly. ;-) I am doing a Heroes vid with the song "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars. And my OCD/perfectionist tendencies are showing.