It's October 1st, Wrimos! How are you plotting your novel?

[ecosopher]

Is everyone as excited as I am about next month?!

I'm doing a fair bit of pen and paper plotting this year, and so far I've lots of different scenarios which hopefully will result in many words.  What do you use to plot your novel?  And do you find it helps, or do you get to November and just dismiss the preparation altogether?

Comments

[murf1307]

I already have a title and a premise, and I'm going to start the Mechanicals tomorrow.

Title: Protagonist
Premise: Leina Davies has never been the main character in her own life story -- she's always played supporting roles in everyone elses'. When the world starts ending, she figures that isn't going to change. Then she meets a man who will change everything, and then the Call to Adventure gets dropped in her lap. Can she become, for the first time, her own life's protagonist?

[slhmurphy]

I'm murf1307 -- I'll be using this account (slhmurphy) for posts about stuff that isn't fanfiction. Just figured I'd mention it here.

[slhmurphy]

Also, I should mention that I'm using a few different methods to plot here. I'm thinking about the Post-It method, given that there's nothing on my bulletin board at the moment...

[hitori_ryuu]

I'm going to try and plot out as much as I can, because what I'm working on this year I don't nearly have as strong a grasp on, story-wise.

[jennicide]

I have a feeling I'm going to be spending most of this month settling on one idea. I have three kicking around already, the first 3-ish chapters of one of them already outlined, but it's a genre I've never written before, so I don't know if I'll stick with that.

Last year I just wrote very much off the cuff, and I won, but I'm pretty sure it's garbage and I haven't brought myself to look at it since November 30th last year. lol

[bailzzararco]

My main problem with writing is knowing how my story is supposed to end. I can think of all kinds of great things to happen, but I never know where it's headed. I am going to try to think of at least ONE thing that will be the conclusion if it kills me! I've managed to write 50K twice, but never wrote a whole story yet, because I just didn't know where they were going, and I just got tired of the story. This year I am hoping to have some idea so I can work my way to that conclusion. Wish me luck!

[marycatelli]

I had a lot of trouble with that. I recommend an outline. It helps if you insist it tell you up front.

[imissimissyou]

this year is going too fast, I can't believe it's november already! I haven't really had time to figure out much as to what I'm going to write.

I'm thinking about wirting this idea that I've been thinking about for about 7 years, about a girl who sells her soul to the devil. Either that or a story titled "Everything", which is just a title I like, but I used to come up with titles before stories when I was younger. I'm hoping this will help my dry spell in writing (writer's block... sucks).

Or, I'll do as I usually do during NaNo: come up with my idea around Oct 28th...