Writing...in your head

Still too busy finishing up the current WIP so I can free myself up for NaNo. Hmm, I'm seeing a trend. Last year I finished draft a week before NaNo and nearly wiped myself out. Hopefully this year I'll have more of a break.

But it's great having the perfect first line. I did that a couple of years ago and was all fired up to write the scene down when Nov. 1 rolled around.

I don't.

Have.

Anything.

Nah, no writing thoughts yet. Still figuring out motivations, sub-plots and character traits. I also only have vague scene ideas. Must get this plotting into gear... grrr...

I get flashes of brilliant, lyrical sentences, usually at 3 a.m. I just hope to remember them come November. I'm trying not to focus too specific yet, since I'm working on the plot, then sub-plots, then characters .... Yikes, time's flying!

I'm forbidding myself from writing a word but I have some scenes in my head.

Oh, I tell a lie. I wrote a few snippets of conversation between the two male MCs the other day and showed them to tt42.

scarletpeaches said:

I'm forbidding myself from writing a word but I have some scenes in my head.

Oh, I tell a lie. I wrote a few snippets of conversation between the two male MCs the other day and showed them to tt42.

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'Tis okay, I won't tell.


*secretly blogs about it so EVERYONE will know...*

*refuses to send chapters to tt42 from now on*

scarletpeaches said:

*refuses to send chapters to tt42 from now on*

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Ooooh, I don't think you want to do that, not when chapter 16 is neeeaaarly there.

RERAIL...

I haven't even settled on my NaNo project yet, but I'm sure once I do, it'll bug me night and day until Nov 1. Gotta finish this current book first though...

Certainly rarin' to go. Wanna start writin' the hell outta this thing NOW

But I hain't gonna because that'd be cheating (me) and I don't do that.

So, I'm outlining, researching, going on locations, thinking, plotting, conspiring, sub-plotting, charactering and reading friggin' POETRY! Stuff that is apropos to the thing I'll be a doin'.

No words. I'm trying to think through scenes, because that's generally where I stumble over holes I need to fill in, but it's not really verbalizing in my head yet.

Not yet, but I usually know the first few lines of the story a couple of days before November 1st.

I do hear random snatches of dialogue in my head, but that's part of how I plan my stories; other people see clips of scenes, I hear them.

Lots of scenes, lots of worldbuilding. I've got ML stuff to keep me occupied though

Opening scene is in there rattling around, not sure what comes next yet though

I've planned, but not wrote any of the story itself. I doubt I'll make it to Nov 1st before throwing something down though.

Some snippets of dialogue have popped into my head while I was outlining and I had to force myself not to write them down. Come on, November!

I've been plotting and have some scenes played out, but no actual writing as yet. I only just sorted out my MC this morning though...

I've got a couple of dozen different (and completely incompatible) ideas, none of which may make it to the first of November. It will be an interesting experiment to start writing something fresh, without any idea of where I am going or what I am doing...

Not that having absolutely no idea what I am doing will be so unusual.

I am working on detailed character outlines, and have a couple of scenes in my head. I am finding this so exciting, as I have spent the whole of this year researching and attempting to write my first novel. It's historical, and I am starting to realise that, though the idea is a great one, I am probably not yet equal to the task.

Then along come these two characters, and they are exciting and interesting, and I am itching to start writing right now. I feel so liberated after the struggle of the past months. Bring on Nano!

*leaps up, cheers, blushes and slinks back to her corner*

I got lots of ideas and I am very anxious to get started.

Now I feel like I just met two people at a party, and we're all making small talk.

I have a few scenes and a strange line that I can't shake. It doesn't really fit the story, but I am going to stab it in to place somehow...