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I imported last year's NaNoWriMo "novel" into Scrivener, and have been reorganizing it (for some reason, yWriter4 numbered the files out of order, so characters are reacting to things that haven't happened yet) and thus rereading it.
Surprisingly, parts of it are actually not bad, although it's interesting to note how much I now see wrong with it in just a year. (Like the lack of antagonists. :)
What's interesting is that the "novel" ends at 53,000+ words when I finally get the three protagonists basically into the same room with one another. It's kind of like...Elrond's house in Lord of the Rings. Another apt comparison might be Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, where what you think is the story throughout book one turns out to be merely the prequel to the real story that starts in book two.
I said last year that it needed a lot more before it was complete. I thought maybe another 50,000 words or so. (Those of you who don't see where this is leading, please go look up "foreshadowing" on Wikipedia. :)
Now I'm considering picking up the thread from where I left it last year and making this year's NaNoWriMo "novel" be the next 50,000 words of The Third Prophecy.
This buts up against my main problem in writing: middles. :) I'm fairly good with beginnings. I mean, I know how most of my stories start, and can usually get that down on paper. And generally speaking, I know where they end, and can write that.
It's that whole middle part where the characters get from the beginning to the end that I have trouble with. You know, the part where a miracle occurs:
This 50,000 words would be that middle.
So I find myself with two workable ideas for NaNoWriMo.
Surprisingly, parts of it are actually not bad, although it's interesting to note how much I now see wrong with it in just a year. (Like the lack of antagonists. :)
What's interesting is that the "novel" ends at 53,000+ words when I finally get the three protagonists basically into the same room with one another. It's kind of like...Elrond's house in Lord of the Rings. Another apt comparison might be Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, where what you think is the story throughout book one turns out to be merely the prequel to the real story that starts in book two.
I said last year that it needed a lot more before it was complete. I thought maybe another 50,000 words or so. (Those of you who don't see where this is leading, please go look up "foreshadowing" on Wikipedia. :)
Now I'm considering picking up the thread from where I left it last year and making this year's NaNoWriMo "novel" be the next 50,000 words of The Third Prophecy.
This buts up against my main problem in writing: middles. :) I'm fairly good with beginnings. I mean, I know how most of my stories start, and can usually get that down on paper. And generally speaking, I know where they end, and can write that.
It's that whole middle part where the characters get from the beginning to the end that I have trouble with. You know, the part where a miracle occurs:
This 50,000 words would be that middle.
So I find myself with two workable ideas for NaNoWriMo.
