NaNoWriMo06 for 10-31-6

When I said I have absolutely no idea what my story is going to be, I wasn’t kidding. It was easier last year, when I had a large time interval to cover, so I could scroll along time as I pleased. But now the character has been established, the psychosis obvious. I think what needs to happen is there be some growing imperative to change that he isn’t aware of. It’s tricky writing. It’s not something that will happen initially. I’ll introduce new characters, which is in itself tricky. Even if you don’t mean for it to be, introduction sequences set the first impression to the reader.

Don’t think I’m educated in writing, I’m just going off observations. Education just messes with your inate talent.

Then there’s Lisa. I know her like the back of my head, I created her! Just a matter of what direction I think she’ll go. The awesome thing about my writing is that I flat-out don’t know the result of interactions until after I write them. I intended for Sniper to be a certain kind of character, but he ended up interacting with Xavier in a different way than I intended. So that’s how they ended up interacting. You have to be true to your characters.

More obscure teenage memories are coming to me, snippets. Moments. It’s all about the moments. From freeze-frames in time, you can press play, or fast-forward a little bit.

I don’t want to get lost in writing stories about other unimportant characters, but it’s good to know their background character anyway, just in case. I remind myself that I don’t need to explain everything, I just have to point the camera on the scene at the right moments. An intelligent reader can figure the rest out. On the other hand, I go into intimate detail whenever possible, if only to crank out words.

I’d like to think I had an overall arch in my last story that I followed, even if only on a latent level. Even without a plot, I knew where it was going to end. I had that end sequence well-written in my mind weeks in advance. I know my major plot points which will pop up at some point, but I’m not sure what the end result will be.

Well, now I’m just meditating on possible plot directions. I think I’ll be heading to bed before midnight. I’m lifting in the morning.