I'm now learning that the novel writing process is extremely painful as well as extremely gratifying.
Tip on the Nano site says when you're struggling you need to kill a character. I'm only dealing with my main characters at present and I can't kill them.
Wait...I need to write in a scene where they travel to a village.
Someone in this village NEEDS to die.
Violently.
I'm feeling good about that. Maybe I'll TSoD them!
I hope I can write 9000 words over the next two days. I did it before when I deleted all of Chapter 4. I can do it again.
I can, by God!
Take that Nano!
I might be down, but I'm still spitting out words like a pugilist spits out teeth.
I'm not out of this race yet.
There's nothing like massacring a village with the TSOD to get your NaNo juices flowing! I think it's an excellent idea.
ReplyDeleteAnd about not killing main characters: could you kill them, then maybe bring them back somehow? Just a thought.
Go for it, Maria. I know one of my main characters has to die, but she can't till I reach that point - and I'm a ways from that yet, (sigh) I promised myself I wouldn't fall so far behind this year.
ReplyDelete(deeper sigh)