I’ve posted Day One. It’s difficult to write without going back and editing, and in many cases I had no direction. I was making it all up as I went along.
The First Arc
This first arc is supposed to introduce the concept of being a magical kid. It takes Sarah Cloverfield and Samuel Seamair, and puts them in a position where they use their magic, given by magical jewels, to help out others. The people the help all exist in dreams, or rather in nightmares. After magic has been used to stabilize everything, and ensure safety, the cause of the nightmare was addressed, and Sarah found herself waking from her dream. Was it only a dream?
Because this story should fit into three arcs, I can nicely split each arc into about ten days of writing. However, the main plan is to write weekdays only. Writing today was to give me a starting place Monday, so I’m not sitting there trying to figure out where to begin. Sure, I knew how the first few paragraphs would go, but I wasn’t sure where I’d be going from there.
After the first week and a half, I should have a number of similar chapters where Clover and Shamrock are helping stop a nightmare. Each one should progress the characters and a story in some way. How well that happens remains to be seen, and it might not happen properly until a rewrite to fix problems and tie up loose ends.
He says, She Said
Normally when I write, I switch back and forth between past and present text. It’s not intended, it just happens. I wonder if it relates to whether I’m writing slowly or quickly through a scene. It that happens during NaNoWriMo, I’m not going to clean it up. I can do that in December. NaNoWriMo is about meeting a word count, essentially writing a story from beginning to end. It is not about writing, then fixing, then fixing some more, then fixing a bit more, and never reaching the end.
NaNoWriMo Goals
This portion weighs in at 3,006 words. If I wrote 3,000 words a day for 30 days, this would be 90,000 words in the month of November. That isn’t my goal, however.
My goal is to write during the 20 weekdays. I’ll have a little more than an hour of writing in the morning, and maybe at least an hour and a half in the afternoon. In upwards of three hours, I expect to reach 2,500 words a day. For 20 days, this is 50,000 words exactly. Writing on weekends is icing on the cake, and makes NaNoWriMo’s goal seem very possible. Nice.
