I got 4,085 words on my draft, and that's even with taking time out from writing to add more to my outline. I still need to work more clues into my outline, but I've gotten the basic story elements flowing pretty well, and characters are starting to assert themselves. Conflict is brewing nicely as well. In the 4k my MC already has had words with two characters, one someone who reports to her, and the other char is another manager. She called him an ass :) Well he kind of is, and said ass character just totally stuck his head in and declared himself as such. It was a "spot" that needed to be filled anyways, that it's a char with an attitude like that is just bonus.
Here's the blurb for my novel, which I posted to nano's site the other day. It's a bit tongue and cheek, but I had fun writing it.
Federated Planetary year 309, our intrepid heroine finds herself on a distant hostile planetoid keeping the mining machinery running. A few malfunctions she can chalk up to machine wear, but when things start breaking more frequently and not on their own she can’t ignore that someone is determined to stop the machines from running. In the confines of the platform, can she find the saboteur before it’s to late?
Anyways, to the outline, I'm really happy with the level of detail I have for the scenes. I have a few sentences or so for each, including the random line of dialogue or two. But it's not so detailed that it feels like the scene is "locked in" so to speak. There is still very much wiggle room to explore what else is going on without getting to lost from where the novel is supposed to end up (I hope at least). There was a time or two today I was like "what now" in the middle of a scene, and a note from my outline got me back into the flow pretty well.
Here's the blurb for my novel, which I posted to nano's site the other day. It's a bit tongue and cheek, but I had fun writing it.
Federated Planetary year 309, our intrepid heroine finds herself on a distant hostile planetoid keeping the mining machinery running. A few malfunctions she can chalk up to machine wear, but when things start breaking more frequently and not on their own she can’t ignore that someone is determined to stop the machines from running. In the confines of the platform, can she find the saboteur before it’s to late?
Anyways, to the outline, I'm really happy with the level of detail I have for the scenes. I have a few sentences or so for each, including the random line of dialogue or two. But it's not so detailed that it feels like the scene is "locked in" so to speak. There is still very much wiggle room to explore what else is going on without getting to lost from where the novel is supposed to end up (I hope at least). There was a time or two today I was like "what now" in the middle of a scene, and a note from my outline got me back into the flow pretty well.
- Mood:
accomplished


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