NaNoWriMo 2011 - Day 9

[ladyseishou]

Day 9 - 21 days remaining

In a good story the opponent will push the hero around a great deal,
in fact, the more the better. This builds conflict and forces the hero
to dig deeper to fix the great weakness that's ruining the hero's life.

— John Truby



It’s called the Traveling Shovel of Death and if you aren’t familiar with this specific NaNoWriMo brand of tool, let’s just say that it’s a device that you can use to dig up some dirt to throw into your plot. It’s a killer idea and one you might consider if you feel the need to get your hands dirty and you know where all the bodies are buried. Or could be.

Is that groaning I hear? Come on! It' all good clean pun!

Today’s word count is 15,003! What’s your hero up to today? My MC is about to set a trap to catch a killer and there may be a shovel involved ;-) Questions? Comments? Famous last words? How about: Keep Writing!

Comments

[ladyseishou]

Beautiful word count! And that does indeed sound like an interesting challenge! Hope it works out!

And alas, the bad guy outwitted my hero and escaped! Which then caused the poor boy great anguish and a certain amount of soul searching :-( But things will start to look up very soon. Maybe. *evil laughter*

[dark_kana]

Very interesting challenge indeed. ^^ And it did work out. More or less. Will work on that part some more later on. :-)

Oh, poor hero. :D But it is always more fun if the bad guy can outwit the hero a little bit. :p