Saturday, November 10, 2012

NaNoWriMo Day 10

Ugh.  Writing scenes to bridge between the really awesome scenes can kind of suck.  I want every chapter to be doing something, and since I have only two POV characters at the moment and they are are traveling together I can't really just skip big huge chunks of the journey.  But I do have to fill that time with conversation and internal dialogue and try to make it work somehow.  I keep telling myself that this is only draft zero.  Now that they've been together for four chapters, I've cooked up a way to get them apart in the next one.  For a chapter.  But then that chapter leads directly to launching my third and final POV character (I think).  I actually recently thought that I could insert a fourth one, that would come in and break up some of the monotony of traveling, but that would have to be a draft 1 correction, and I'll have to think long and hard (and full of seamen!) about that.  Boy that joke doesn't really work at all when typed out.  My mother used to go, "Hey, tell them the submarine joke!" when people came over, which then sort of ruins the whole thing.  Anyway, digression complete.  Back to writing!  I have 3047 words to be done and caught up today.  Pretty sure I won't make that goal, but If I can get 2047, then maybe I can repeat that tomorrow and be ready to start slacking off and falling behind again! Wheeeee!

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