I just finished my required word count for the day. It’s
still early, so a may actually get ahead today.
I love NaNoWriMo. I had the general shape of the story
framed out in my mind before I started but I love how the need to move forward
with the writing makes filling in the details so easy. It hardly matters to the
story what a character is named so the first one you think of is good enough.
You can always go back later and change it if you need to. Then sometimes those
one-off decisions inspire whole other structures that the story world needed.
One example. Because I recently read a passing reference to The
Tale of Genji, sometimes called the first novel in
history, I decided to name my old warrior Genji. Then I spontaneously decided
to call him The Genji. That implies a whole system of titles with specific
roles in the kingdom for The Genji. At least it does to me. This idea of the
character going by a title alone is perfect for other threads I am drawing
through the story. This is why NaNoWriMo is so great. It is hard to make a
mistake and almost any decision you make improves the story.
The benchmark word count for today is: 6668
My total word count so far is: 6764
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