NaNoWriMo - Day Twenty Three - quick update

[meridian_rose]

I posted a short wordpress post update with an overview of the themes I've previously mentioned with the title Day 22. IDEK what I'm doing any more. Edited it, hopefully before too many people noticed.

I'm starting to feel that "don't know if I'm bored or overwhelmed" feeling. It's mostly the latter. That sense of dread when I think about writing certain scenes/not knowing how to join up existing scenes. I deal with this by writing something else instead, a scene I do want to write, for example.
I'm a little behind but I'm pleased overall with my progress, though I'm concerned that even if I win NaNo there is no way this book will be done. I don't just mean it will need editing, I mean there is still going to be story to tell. Which is fine, but makes it a little more daunting. As if it might never be done.
I know I had the same problem with the novel currently referred to as "Juliet" - I never imagined I'd make it to 50k and it was "the novella" for a long time. But when I'd got the first very rough beginning-middle-end put together at last I could see where the story needed to be expanded and the wordcount shot up by the end of what was almost a re-write more than an edit. I know can do this, and I know can do it more easily now I'm not relying on Word to organise my scenes.
In fact writing scenes out of order, which is how I mostly work anyway, has been what has kept me going this far. Occasionally I can see where two scenes meet up, but I still have a lot of 'unsorted' scenes to put together into a coherent narrative later.

One week to go. I need to keep going and not give up now.

Comments

[silk_dragon_zen]

You can do it, yes you can! Rah rah! Rah rah rah!

I believe in you (also, I want that book to be written so I can eventually read it/listen to it).

[meridian_rose]

Aw, thank you! :D

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I've admired your progress! Don't give up.

Next comes storyboarding! I like to do this with 3x5 cards.

[meridian_rose]

Well I've been trying out Scrivener and I've got yWriter and so all the scenes have index cards ready for storyboarding. It's just that I had a plan to follow the Tarot Fool's Journey and set out the chapters that way, only to find that the story doesn't neatly break up into that narrative - that's another post entirely - and so I have a ton of scenes in the "unsorted" chapter instead!
And as with "Juliet" I'm on the fence about where the A2/B storyline fits in with the main narrative. But these things can wait, I guess, and it shouldn't be nearly as traumatic since I can just move the index cards around as necessary :)
The timeline has gone a bit to hell, but again I can worry about that later I guess. It's quite a compressed timeline in some respects since I've working on the late spring start with most of the action in summer and the decline towards autumn which mirrors the events. It's just trying to make everything happen logically, and work out where the relationship develops so I can build up the closeness gradually. At the moment I'm writing scenes without always having a clear idea on how far along things are. There will be a lot of editing to do :/