My NaNo idea is bubbling over the top of my brain, so I'm ready to write, but as always, I have to walk the fine line between letting the story play out in my head to plan a little bit and letting it play out so much that I don't feel like writing it anymore.
I'd love to say my pantser quality is all about letting the story flow freely from my brain, through my fingers and out into the world but that's not entirely true. While planning stories does make me jumpy in a way that only a person with commitment problems can, my main problem with plotting is that if I let the ideas flow too much and I see the whole story in my head, I don't feel like writing it anymore because, to me, it already happened. I know that's probably weird but that's just how I am. My very first book took me a year and a half to write and I firmly believe that it's because I, trying to plan like I saw so many awesome writers talking about online, got tired of that story and it slowed me down.
Knowing exactly what happens in my story takes me out of the game very early, so I try to keep the planning to a minimum (who the main characters are and the conflict), which is what I'm fighting right now waiting for NaNo to start. I actually think I'm going to jump in at midnight because these characters are screaming at me!
I'm ready! And nervous.
I didn't do my regular blog posts last week, because I was trying to take a break from the computer in preparation for NaNo as well. I developed a really awesome eye twitch while writing MISFITS, so this time I'm trying to be really careful with my eyes. But I do plan on keeping the blog updated in November to document my
Happy Halloween/NaNoWriMo Eve!
Brandy
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