I’m having a good month, so far, although I keep having the fear that I’ll run out of plot.
I had what started out being a fun SF idea–almost dropped it because I was reading stuff about how aliens-are-not-humans-with-weird-ears,or other stuff stressing that there has to be a REASON for aliens to have developed as they developed. I was backing away when I remembered Douglas Adam’s fabulous books, with aliens who jetted around the universe to go to fancy-dress (costume) parties and ate dinner at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe because they could.
So, I worked on the SF book with not very deep aliens as one of two books for November. But, as I work on it, I find myself thinking that there’s a key bit that may result from one of the MCs not being human, a different approach to life that is ingrained. So, maybe my reading prep has been useful after all.
On my second novel (which I plan to write first), I’ve been deciding things like how many POV characters (3), themes, and other grandious things that may not matter when it comes time to write. More importantly, I’m trying not to plan on writing too many pages that will just get cut in the second draft. Easy way to pile up the wordcount, but ultimately a bit discouraging. (Anyone need 10,000 words on being lonely in Paris? No? I didn’t think so. Sigh. (That was 2007 and it still bites.))
But such thoughts don’t belong in October. October is for excitement and confidence that the words will flow. And buying/cooking food that will last through at least half of November.
Katherine
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