Without the motivation of the folks at the National Novel Writing Month, I'd never be able to say this and mean it....
20,141 Words!!!.....only 29,859 to go!....Yikes!
"No sweat".
I am taking the "word vomit" approach to my novel. There is no outline, no rough draft; only a notion of a plot. My fingers translate even the smallest notions of plot from my mind and allow the plot to develop. I admit that often my characters drive the story and I mearly write what they are doing. They have been behaving and the "arrangement" has been working well.
When I sit down to write, I like to listen to classical, instrumental, or earth sounds.
My story is sort of dark and deals with transferance. Some of the characters in my novel are drawn from my persoal past and the notion for the story comes from a strong desire to write "Dark Fiction". It is easier for me to write dark....in my next novel, I want to write something happy, something uplifting where no one dies.
One of the things I like to do is get writing prompts from friends and family....do you have a writing propmt for me? "What's a writing prompt, you say?" That's where you give me a little push....for example. 'The car just stopped right there in front of the Burger King....or 'Just as Katie turned around she was confronted by.....'
Send me a note.
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