mumbledy-mumbledy week 2
Nov. 14th, 2010 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zanzjanNaNoCheaMo total: 16365
Novel total: 56,832 (manuscript wordcount)
So, yeah, I got stuck and now I'm behind by something like 6500 words. It's okay.
Aside from realizing that my villain was being overly dramatic with the villainy, while trying to think out a better, smoother way of handling that plot point I also realized that the situation as it stood provided the villain with motive but not opportunity for the action I needed him/her to take, and that if I shifted it enough to provide the opportunity, motive went away.
Bah. Writing is hard. Figured it out, but it took several days and lots of word-shuffling and brain-processing, which means a lot of work not reflected in wordcount. Tomorrow we'll see whether or not I can get back into the mega-word groove and close that gap again at least a little.
Novel total: 56,832 (manuscript wordcount)
So, yeah, I got stuck and now I'm behind by something like 6500 words. It's okay.
Aside from realizing that my villain was being overly dramatic with the villainy, while trying to think out a better, smoother way of handling that plot point I also realized that the situation as it stood provided the villain with motive but not opportunity for the action I needed him/her to take, and that if I shifted it enough to provide the opportunity, motive went away.
Bah. Writing is hard. Figured it out, but it took several days and lots of word-shuffling and brain-processing, which means a lot of work not reflected in wordcount. Tomorrow we'll see whether or not I can get back into the mega-word groove and close that gap again at least a little.
