NaNoWriMo 2011 - Day 17

[ladyseishou]

Day 17 - 13 days remaining

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

— Vladimir Nabokov



Has the plot bunny you followed down the rabbit hole deserted you to take tea with your Mad Inner Editor and left you wondering what happens next? Caress the detail! Rather than let a day pass without writing, go back and flesh out a bare scene or two with divine detail. And take heart - tomorrow is another day!

Today’s word count is 28,339! Questions? Comments? Share something to smile about? My favorite typo for the day: “Certainly, I would be happy for the whelp,” Dodd said. Apparently my subconscious sees the character as a father-to-be and not in need of a hand ;-) but it’s all good! Keep writing!

Comments

[dark_kana]

Has the plot bunny you followed down the rabbit hole deserted you to take tea with your Mad Inner Editor and left you wondering what happens next?
Something like that, yes. :(
I really should stop myself from rereading all I've written and just, write on... But *shakes head* My MC and even my villans are not cooperating for the moment. *rolls eyes* Perhaps I can bribe them with some chocolate...?

[ladyseishou]

Yes, try chocolate! For every hundred words or so, let them know there will be a small chocolate treat and then for a day's quota something really delicious!

How about archiving/hiding most of your earlier work except for the last paragraph or so? Tweaking your story can really put the breaks on story telling...

Hoping chocolate bribery helps!

[down]

40,816. The last thousand words before hitting 40k were like trying to chip bits of concrete off a massive slab with a blunt pickaxe. So of course, as soon as I'm over, the next 800 came easy. ^^;;;

I keep making myself keep going back and fill out the scenes/entire chapters which are so far blank, which is technically adding detail? Not that I need much encouragement on that score. XD My plan for tomorrow is to write the handy exposition-via-dialogue (to characters who don't know the place they're going) of the building complex they will be staying in, including history, style, and the various levels of paranoia which came WITH the historical events and how that changed the next layer of rooms until they ended up with the current warren. MUCH description, all engendered by how irritated the speaker is at this stupid history which means he ALWAYS GETS LOST THERE. XD

It's entirely relevant! Those old paranoid prejudices (against mages. I would say I've been watching too much Merlin, but it's spinning off a comment in the first book, in a chapter posted before Merlin was in existence. XD) get to be the main motivation for the immediate antagonist! And left a lot of nasty handy traps about the building which are meant to be GONE in these enlightened times... and are, um, not so much. And get reactivated when MCs are becoming too annoyingly close to working out the whole plot. >D

[ladyseishou]

Fabulous word count! And kudos for getting through the tough stuff! And personally, I'm very fond of exposition-via-dialogue! Hope tomorrow goes as well as the 800!

[lassarina]

39,196! A friend hosted word sprints and it turned out to be great for me. (Part of me is tempted to try to win this weekend; the rest acknowledges it would be wiser to aim for "before Thanksgiving.")

[ladyseishou]

Fantastic word count! It is hard to resist the siren call of the finish line! Pacing yourself is almost always the wisest thing to do but... ;-)