NaNoWriMo: Day One
Nov. 2nd, 2009 04:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arqueeteIT IS NOW NOVEMBER 2ND. I HAVE SURVIVED DAY ONE.
This is the first year where I'll regularly be going to bed in the wee hours of the morning, so this sort of messes with my ideas of what is day one, etc. And even after I write this post I might try and write a little more before bed. BUT as of writing I have 2669 words when, as we all know far, far too well, the minimum for day one to be on track is 1667 words. So that's about 1k over, which is good, but not great -- the best option is to try and get together as many of them words as possible in the first couple days.
Though, TMI, I got my period tonight and it was like, killing my soul, and I wasn't writing for a while simply because I wasn't feeling good. But at least the worst is over as far as my body is concerned.
As for my novel? It's trucking along. I'm finding that maybe all that TV Tropes reading -- more on that in a second -- is good for me. Today I ended up in a spot where I was like GOD THIS SCENE IS SO STEREOTYPICAL BRATTY TEENAGER TALKS BACK TO OVERPROTECTIVE PARENT and it was bothering me that my characters were already crumbling like that so soon, so I let my protagonist lightly lampshade it, and let the bratty teenager involved respond to that accusation of his bratty-teenagerness and in the process a) set up for a scene coming up soon and b) let it be put out there that this was uncharacteristic for this character and a hint that something was really putting them on edge.
The plot of my novel, as currently planned? I tend to believe that it's better not to ramble on in detail about these kinds of things, especially about things yet to be written, but I'll sum it up: a group of teenagers struggle with being uprooted after their city is the center of a nuclear disaster.
As for my inspiration for this NaNovel, I need to give out three shoutouts: first, to this person at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
singitdj whose post made me go OH! THAT'S IT! MY PLOT! second to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
p4tta for originally linking chat to the Wiki article on the Chernobyl disaster which lead to my morbid fascination with it, and to distant_flicker who in response to that linked to Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Thanks to TV Tropes I also was educated about Big Rigs Over The Road Racing, which GameSpot called, "So astoundingly bad that it manages to transcend nearly every boundary put forth by some of gaming's absolute worst of the worst and easily makes it into that dubiously extraordinary category of being one of the most atrocious games ever published." The existence of this game in the universe has improved my life much in the way of the Gollywog and Rob Devaney.
This is the first year where I'll regularly be going to bed in the wee hours of the morning, so this sort of messes with my ideas of what is day one, etc. And even after I write this post I might try and write a little more before bed. BUT as of writing I have 2669 words when, as we all know far, far too well, the minimum for day one to be on track is 1667 words. So that's about 1k over, which is good, but not great -- the best option is to try and get together as many of them words as possible in the first couple days.
Though, TMI, I got my period tonight and it was like, killing my soul, and I wasn't writing for a while simply because I wasn't feeling good. But at least the worst is over as far as my body is concerned.
As for my novel? It's trucking along. I'm finding that maybe all that TV Tropes reading -- more on that in a second -- is good for me. Today I ended up in a spot where I was like GOD THIS SCENE IS SO STEREOTYPICAL BRATTY TEENAGER TALKS BACK TO OVERPROTECTIVE PARENT and it was bothering me that my characters were already crumbling like that so soon, so I let my protagonist lightly lampshade it, and let the bratty teenager involved respond to that accusation of his bratty-teenagerness and in the process a) set up for a scene coming up soon and b) let it be put out there that this was uncharacteristic for this character and a hint that something was really putting them on edge.
The plot of my novel, as currently planned? I tend to believe that it's better not to ramble on in detail about these kinds of things, especially about things yet to be written, but I'll sum it up: a group of teenagers struggle with being uprooted after their city is the center of a nuclear disaster.
As for my inspiration for this NaNovel, I need to give out three shoutouts: first, to this person at
singitdj whose post made me go OH! THAT'S IT! MY PLOT! second to p4tta for originally linking chat to the Wiki article on the Chernobyl disaster which lead to my morbid fascination with it, and to distant_flicker who in response to that linked to Centralia, Pennsylvania.Thanks to TV Tropes I also was educated about Big Rigs Over The Road Racing, which GameSpot called, "So astoundingly bad that it manages to transcend nearly every boundary put forth by some of gaming's absolute worst of the worst and easily makes it into that dubiously extraordinary category of being one of the most atrocious games ever published." The existence of this game in the universe has improved my life much in the way of the Gollywog and Rob Devaney.
