Tim asked me to blog about how I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo this year. Well, I’m saying no to anything and everything in November except for a few special commitments–like my daughter coming back from college on the 1st for two days, and a special event at my synagogue, also on November 1st. I have doubts that I’ll start with my usual bang, but my husband believes I’ll be up and writing by four a.m. and have a few thousand words before our daughter’s plane lands. We’ll see.
I’ve been rounding up all my notes and brilliant ideas that I’ve scribbled and typed over the past several months. Funny how some of them don’t seem quite as brilliant as they did when November was months and months away. Still, it’s fun to see what I figured out for my characters and where the gaping holes are. I know what they might be arrested for, spend $50 at a grocery store on, but not necessarily what most of them look like.
I’m also trying to figure out the ten key scenes in my book. Last year I spent too much time thinking about the first day in my character’s life in Paris–it was easy to write thousands and thousands of words about her being lonely in Paris. Guess what? While easy to write since I’d thought about it so much, it was sad to write and read and isn’t in the book anymore. I’m trying to think about other scenes in vivid detail, and have them be ones that are likely to stay. That said, my internal editor is getting ready for a lovely spa vacation. She’s still around, hopefully to comment on my plot preparation, and to ensure that my characters don’t look like some bizarre identical mob, but she’s anxious to take bubble baths and get daily massages, so promises to be quiet throughout November.
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