further reflections on NaNoWriMo
Dec. 3rd, 2013 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliThe problem with pantsing is that you can end up with a lot of stuff in the work that needs to be excised or interwoven better. This can happen even when you go pantsing on outlines. The beginning is weak because I didn't really have a grasp on what was wrong with the Beyond.
And Rosalyta was different from any other character I had written before. A Myers-Briggs Feeler rather than Thinker. Or at any rate, more of a Feeler. which may have been why it moved more slowly than my other stabs at NaNoWriMo.
I observed that putting her in one place, instead of sending her off on a quest, meant that there was a lot more talking. Also, I will have to name more characters. What is appropriately anonymous when you're just passing through needs a name after a while. Of course, if your location has easily several hundred people, that gets interesting.
Ah, well, at the moment, I barely got to 50,000 because it hit a knotty point. So I am revising another instead.
My last NaNoWriMo effort, actually.
And Rosalyta was different from any other character I had written before. A Myers-Briggs Feeler rather than Thinker. Or at any rate, more of a Feeler. which may have been why it moved more slowly than my other stabs at NaNoWriMo.
I observed that putting her in one place, instead of sending her off on a quest, meant that there was a lot more talking. Also, I will have to name more characters. What is appropriately anonymous when you're just passing through needs a name after a while. Of course, if your location has easily several hundred people, that gets interesting.
Ah, well, at the moment, I barely got to 50,000 because it hit a knotty point. So I am revising another instead.
My last NaNoWriMo effort, actually.