One poster has notes from a book I read months ago that has the philosophical reasons listed that made me want to write the story.
Another has technical writing tips from the books that I got at the library.
It has things on it like: “You are not writing a sermon!” and “Allude to the facts, don’t spell them out.” And the one that gives me the chills…”Inventing is easy, storytelling is hard.” Eeek!
The last poster has my characters and story outline on it. (With HUGE gaps in motivation… that are giving me fits at the moment.)
I DID decide to stay with my original storyidea. (I sort of panicked earlier..) I still have lots of questions. I haven’t figured out who is telling this story. Is it narrated, or first person, or from several viewpoints? This is a real writing challenge to me. I haven’t had to worry about that kind of thing ever before! It was usually just me, mumbling into my hat. So that’s my next project for this evening and tomorrow. I am going to pull several books off the shelves here at home and see how some of my favorite authors tackled that little decision.
About once an hour I have thought……”WHAT are you doing here cupcake? Have you moved into a new level of gut wrenching insanity?” And I have no real answer except that I want to give it a try and I like the idea of doing it in a virtual group, since I have no writing group of my own. It has been a lot of fun to go on the forums at NaNoWriMo and read how other people are just as panicky as me.One person had written in the space for “Title of your story” - - ‘Oh God, how I wish I HAD a title!’ Bless his heart.
As I told BT today, I have been in alt, listening to my new Sting CD.
Anybody else really like the song “Desert Rose” I am blown away by it. It’s new to me believe it or not. (Hey, I was busy raising children when he was doing all this stuff!)
Okay, yoga class beckons.
What’s YOUR motivation? :-)