Post-NaNoWriMo Update - April 20, 2017 (Camp NaNo - Day 20)

[amruniel]

Total Words Written: 197.854




For once, everything went as planned today, and none of my darling boys decided to go off on a tangent or come up with some surprising twist or turn, leaving me with a successfully finished scene.
What I didn't count on, however, was the (in retrospect very obvious) fact that I don't have even the slightest clue how to actually end that scene, or if that scene actually ends the chapter, and if not, where do I take the chapter from there?
Argh!
Damn it! There goes the success of tonight :/

I do have a couple of "stepping-stones" in mind that I want and need to fit somewhere into the narrative between here and the main action, but truthfully, I completely forgot to think about where to fit them. Some of them might work as additional scenes in this chapter, all of them might work in some as of yet unplanned bridging-chapter(s), but where exactly and how and in which order currently is one big mystery.

Ah, well, at least I'm two days or so ahead in term so my Camp NaNo goals, so at least I can keep calm in face of the end of my Easter break approaching way too quickly, and the resulting consequence of once again not being able to write on Sunday, and possibly having to skip or at least settle for less words written than I usually do on various other days.
:)

To be honest, my motivation to get back into a "uni-studying-getting shit done"-mindset is so unappealing right now. I've finally reached the point in my story where I actually do feel like there's good progress and that it moves forward at a good pace and with direction, leading me to the part I had stuck in my mind for the last... probably 2 years. In other words, now that I feel like the real fun is drawing near, writing once again will have to take a slight backseat, my allotted writing time once again being subjected to the rather unpredictable and unreliable moods and fancies of my professors and my schedule in general. *bah*
I'm NOT amused, let me tell you!

But I've still two full days of writing ahead of me before I have to switch back into uni mode, so I'll do my best to enjoy the hell out of them (and get some serious planning done!) :)

Comments

[silvan_lady]

All your planning of scenes impresses me no end! I don't really think about it in such detail, I just take the plot and I write stuff.

[amruniel]

Well, since I don’t know the plot I’ll have to come up with ways how to get myself, the story and the characters even remotely close to the one single fact I know about my plot 😉

And honestly, most of my scene-planning looks something like that: me contorting my body into some kind of pretzel hm, maybe I’ll write Orlando today twisting to the other side and Eric? Possibly Eric. sitting back up to get into another strange position I’m hungry.... twisting around again oh, I know, I’ll have them eat something! leans down to stretch her back they could be talking about [insert some random thing here] leans down to do some downward dog pose random idea: how about Sean did [this and that], that will have my characters and the readers guessing flips leg up in the air that might be fun, let’s roll with that! switches to another stretch anyway, I’ll have to call Himself later, and get some reading done, but first coffee... (thoughts wander off into some completely unrelated direction)

So yeah, I might better refer to it as “planning” in very big quotation marks 😃 (though I sometimes do have some good and productive ideas as well, those usually end with me having “written” whole dialogues in my head while stretching or before falling asleep, and then promptly forget about most of what I had thought out the moment I have the chance to grab some paper or my phone to jot the ideas down).

Nothing to be impressed about, honestly!

[silvan_lady]

I am so looking forward to reading this!

[amruniel]

I just hope you still say that once you have the damn monster in front of you! hugs