Nano! With bonus lack of planning!
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elabyI'm up to date on my word count this year - ahead, even. It's November second and I'm about to introduce my third main character. For perspective, most other years, I've hit 20,000 words without yet introducing my second. Things are pretty boring so far, but I think they'll get better once the more rowdy characters show up.
I'm writing a magical girl story this year. It's utterly self-indulgent. Five girls at an eccentric boarding school are endowed with powers when they each find a small pitcher-shaped vessel. The vessels contain a fragment of power, a particular abstract trait, of a warrior goddess from another world who sacrificed herself to bequeath her power to mortal women so that they could save their people from destruction. The vessels somehow made their way into our world and were purchased as art pieces for this school, where they have drawn and given their gifts to countless girls over the years. But some of the students didn't become magical girls when the vessels called out to them - they simply disappeared. And something with a sentience entirely its own has sprung from those vanished girls.
MAYBE THERE WILL BE A HOT SPRINGS EPISODE.
I normally plan out my Nano scene by scene, so I don't get lost and frustrated and lose the will to continue. This year, I've planned the backstory and the characters and the framework, but I have no idea what's going to happen or the order it's going to happen in. People say that when you wing it, wonderful things happen. I often find that when I wing it, boring things happen. However, I have so much fun writing magical girls that I hope this will cancel out the boring XD I'm giving myself permission to be completely cliche and fangirly and maybe even translate my dialogue into Japanese (when I can think of it off the top of my head) to give myself more words. MOST SELF-INDULGENT NANO EVER, WHAT? :D
I'm writing a magical girl story this year. It's utterly self-indulgent. Five girls at an eccentric boarding school are endowed with powers when they each find a small pitcher-shaped vessel. The vessels contain a fragment of power, a particular abstract trait, of a warrior goddess from another world who sacrificed herself to bequeath her power to mortal women so that they could save their people from destruction. The vessels somehow made their way into our world and were purchased as art pieces for this school, where they have drawn and given their gifts to countless girls over the years. But some of the students didn't become magical girls when the vessels called out to them - they simply disappeared. And something with a sentience entirely its own has sprung from those vanished girls.
MAYBE THERE WILL BE A HOT SPRINGS EPISODE.
I normally plan out my Nano scene by scene, so I don't get lost and frustrated and lose the will to continue. This year, I've planned the backstory and the characters and the framework, but I have no idea what's going to happen or the order it's going to happen in. People say that when you wing it, wonderful things happen. I often find that when I wing it, boring things happen. However, I have so much fun writing magical girls that I hope this will cancel out the boring XD I'm giving myself permission to be completely cliche and fangirly and maybe even translate my dialogue into Japanese (when I can think of it off the top of my head) to give myself more words. MOST SELF-INDULGENT NANO EVER, WHAT? :D
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Date: 2011-11-03 01:20 pm (UTC)YOU SHOULD SO TOTALLY HAVE A HOT SPRINGS EPISODE!!!!
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Date: 2011-11-05 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-03 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-11-04 03:00 am (UTC)I totally understand the "when I wing it, boring things happen". My character spent a large chunk of words camping...by himself. I felt like I was stuck in the middle of HP7 with no other character to interact with.
He found some Native Americans to talk to. It turns out that Sub-artic indigenous tribes mined ore in the 40s and 50s, who knew?
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Date: 2011-11-05 07:08 pm (UTC)