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Writing Update | March 2018

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So I thought I would start making these writing updates. If you like them… let me know!

Current project: “The Legend of the City” (spoof title) | Draft #2

Draft #2 word count: 40,119

This is a project that I started soon after coming up with the idea, and I don’t think that was a good choice, I’ve realized that since I put this undeveloped idea onto paper I have to do A LOT of extra editing when I should have let the story develop in my mind. Whelp, that moment has passed.

One of the biggest things I need to fix with my story is the main character, who isn’t really doing his job as the main character. He’s just letting the secondary characters pull him in whatever direction. My writing group has helped me figure out a few ways to fix that, for example making him rebel against or disagree with the secondary characters. I really just need to do more character development for him.

I’ve been writing a TON. I’m writing almost every day! I think it’s because I’ve been writing first thing in the morning instead of before bed, this is a much better schedule. I really hope this keeps up and it’s not just a good writing mood.

At the point I’m at in the second draft there are only forty pages left in the first draft. Considering how much I know still needs to happen that seems ridiculously short. I did rush through the last few chapters and had a lot of [this scene happens here] but still!

My Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing

NaNoWriMo Prep

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NaNoWriMo starts in two days!! I’m so excited!

This is my first year participating in NaNoWriMo and I can’t wait to start, but I’m really behind on preparing for it. I’ve already temporarily put aside An American Werewolf in New Orleans and have come up with a new idea to write for NaNoWriMo (which I’m not going to talk about too much yet) I realised too late that it might not have been such a good idea to pick this more complicated story to write for NaNoWriMo but I’m not going to change now!

I’ve done a lot of world building and I’ve invented a lot of characters but they’re not too developed, and all the plotting I’ve really done is coming up with the basic idea and some major plot points. (Give me a break, I’ve had a busy October!) But I do plan on working on the plotting and at least some character development in the next couple days.

I’ve kinda turned the den into a makeshift office as you can see in the picture above. I have my white board that I’m doing my world building on and my computer where I’m building my cast and keeping ideas for my plotline. I have made a soundtrack for my book which currently only has some movie soundtrack music on it.

I feel like I should say something about my NaNoWriMo project, so I’ll give you some vague info on it.  This is a fantasy book as you have probably put together by now. The most interesting thing about it that I’m currently willing to share is that it’s highly inspired by the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one of my favorite games. And of course my book soundtrack has some of it’s music, I think Song of Storms is kinda the main song for this story right now. The main character is a boy, age 13 (I may change his age) and I have not yet settled on a name for him, I was thinking Lazarus, but I don’t know if that name fits him all that well.

Now I need to come up with a spoof title to refer to it as on this blog, I’m thinking about just using my real working title since I’m pretty sure I’ll change it later, but it does kind of give away something about my story that I don’t want to announce yet so I’ll just use a spoof title. I want to use the Zelda title so maybe something like The Legend of the City. I like that, it fits very well with my story since it does involve a legend of a city (it’s more of a small town but The Legend of the Town doesn’t sound as cool to me). I’m going to go with The Legend of the City.

That’s all I have to talk about today. If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo this year I would love it if you would put your spoof or working title in the comments. Also, if you know any cool suggestions for my main character’s name please put that in the comments too.

Bye!