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thewhitelily) wrote2007-11-01 10:07 am
thewhitelily) wrote2007-11-01 10:07 am
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NaNoWriMo Day 1 - word count 2,061
I'm over 2000 words, which has been a bit of a struggle, but I'm past my daily target, so all is well. Slow and steady wins the race.
The biggest bone of contention between myself and my muse is his abrupt decision that my protagonist is in a wheelchair. I can't decide whether to give in on this point, so at the moment I'm avoiding mentioning anything about how she gets from one place to another.
Mostly, I don't mind this subplot - in fact, I think it'is quite cool - except that I'm quite certain that her daughter, who is probably the other main character, suffered a brain injury as a small child which resulted in complications some fifteen years later that means she's in a coma.
Still, I would rather not have the two main characters entirely coincidentally disabled; that's just sloppy, so I guess unless the reasons for putting Louisa in a wheelchair get substantially more compelling, I'll keep her walking around. Even if it does makes my muse all pouty and angsty.
Might head off to bed early tonight. I've got my words out and they're actually pretty good plot wise and quality wise. But I still can't help wishing that I'd managed to write anything that looked remotely as I'd expected it too.
Time for a bit more plot dreaming, I think.
The biggest bone of contention between myself and my muse is his abrupt decision that my protagonist is in a wheelchair. I can't decide whether to give in on this point, so at the moment I'm avoiding mentioning anything about how she gets from one place to another.
Mostly, I don't mind this subplot - in fact, I think it'is quite cool - except that I'm quite certain that her daughter, who is probably the other main character, suffered a brain injury as a small child which resulted in complications some fifteen years later that means she's in a coma.
Still, I would rather not have the two main characters entirely coincidentally disabled; that's just sloppy, so I guess unless the reasons for putting Louisa in a wheelchair get substantially more compelling, I'll keep her walking around. Even if it does makes my muse all pouty and angsty.
Might head off to bed early tonight. I've got my words out and they're actually pretty good plot wise and quality wise. But I still can't help wishing that I'd managed to write anything that looked remotely as I'd expected it too.
Time for a bit more plot dreaming, I think.
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But no, there's no way they happened from the same event. *frowns at silly story for giving her incompatible ideas*
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You got ahead of me from Day 1! Naughty girl! :P! Just kidding. I edited my Day 1 post, even though I am now told that we aren't meant to edit it. I made so many changes it wasn't funny when I was at work waiting for Mum today. She had an urgent thing that didn't come through til almost 7pm, so I spend the 2 and a half hours actually writing it all down and changing all these things, and finally getting home and did it to the story. And it wasn't until I edited my LJ that a girl on MSN said that I wasn't meant to! o.O! So I made a promise that I wouldn't do it anymore... *sigh* This is harder than it seems. I haven't written very many words at all today.
Steph