Novel Progress
Well, surprisingly, I’m still writing a novel this month with the NaNoWriMo crowd. Ha ha. You can check up on my progress here if you like, or just wait for some update asides. I’ve heard that other people in the Japan pool had extensively planned out their novel – going to the extent of drawing maps of their fantasy worlds and whatnot. While I admire this, when I said I was getting my thoughts together, I meant thoughts like “space was colonized by humans.” Yes, I actually pulled that from my notes. That’s my “planning,” you see. The result, of course, is that these folks who have spent loads of time planning and really letting their ideas percolate are waaaay ahead of the curve, writing wise. Some are nearing the halfway point already. And my guess is that their narratives are going to be fantastically ripe with detail and generally lovely reads.
My novel, on the other hand, hasn’t settled into a single genre yet. It has 3 rather flat characters – 4 or 5 by the end of today, I hope. What is does have, and have in spades, is exposition. Oh, the expository greatness of my novel. Ha ha. I’m deciding where to go each day when I sit down to write. It’s pretty ridiculous, actually. The story has evolved into its current 11900 word form based on very small decisions that were made almost arbitrarily. It really reminds me of my days doing improvisational comedy with the Charleston County School of the Arts troupe, the Fighting Gnomes. It all just happens. It’s almost like I’m not even driving. I love it. Ha ha. So…will it be a murder mystery? Will it be an exploration story? Will it be a morality tale? I have no idea! And I think I kind of like it…
