Who's planning for NaNo 2010?

[twistingthetale]

Hi folks, just a quick post to find out if any of you have started to make plans for NaNo this year? As yet I haven't made a start on 'serious' planning, but I'll be writing about werewolves during the Victorian era. This will be my third NaNo, and it will be set in the same location as my two previous novels even though they don't form a trilogy (although there is more than just the location that links them).

I'm also taking part in the Two Year Novel course (2YN) at the Forward Motion site, which is a lot of fun and very useful. Hopefully I'll be able to use what I've learned so far with my NaNo planning :) With the course work and other projects that I'm working on, editing last year's NaNo - and 2008's - has yet to begin, but after a thorough read-through once it was printed I have an idea of which areas are in obvious need of attention.

This community was a great source of encouragement last year, so if any of you are taking the plunge again this year I look forward to working with you again :)

Comments

[naraht]

I think people vary in how absolutist they are about starting from scratch with a new story. I'll end up doing what works for me, although who knows whether I'll have the time in November.

What would mostly be motivating me is very simple curiosity: I want to find out how my novel ends!

[senmut]

YES! That's my problem. I had ten chapters plotted, and knew how they were to go, and in Chapter Four, it turned left at Albuquerque, so now I am all...what? Where are we going...oh, there. But...ending?

[naraht]

I'll admit that I totally misjudged the pacing of my story. I took seriously all the admonitions about how you could write tons of description in order to rack up word count, and it was great fun being atmospheric, but I realized that something was off when I was like 20k in (or was it 30k?) and one of the three main characters hadn't appeared yet. Then I started introducing subplots. And it became clear that I hadn't needed to worry about word count because I had a 100k+ novel on my hands and yet my goal was only 50k. Hmmm.

And I still don't know who the hero ends up with in the end...