Journalling my NaNoWriMo Attempt
I am having a hard time with my novel right now. I am only allow to plan it, and that’s a good thing because I would not even know where to begin writing it. I don’t really have a plot, but I have a few character ideas. I have a large plot goal, but no real plot line. I know some events in the life of my plot (leave home, travel through rough land, find & retrieve “the package”, change motives/goal while returning, … <<insert the end point here>>) oops, I guess I don’t know how my story will end (that’s probably a problem).
I am not sure how to proceed from here. Do I continue to develop some characters? Problem with that is I might get bogged down in character creation and not figure out the plot. Do I work on the plot and ignore the characters? The problem with that is I might make a plot that I really don’t have any characters to perform in. How do I balance the two? What is my next step?
I have a theme (sacrifice) and I have at least one side-plot/conflict (the main character will be torn between two love interests, but the loves will be drastically different, one exciting and unknown, the other comfortable and familiar). I need more. I need more interesting things to happen along the way. I have a whole world of imagination in front of me … why can I not find anything interesting?
(Note to self: I don’t think I want this to be a particularly dark story, but I really don’t care, as long as I get 50,000 words and some experience writing a complete story, beginning to end.)