{"id":125,"date":"2019-12-03T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quietlypassingby.me\/qpb\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:59:50","slug":"yet-another-nanowrimo-win-and-another-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpb.one\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another NaNoWriMo Win (and another WIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

I did it again! Fifty thousand words in 30 days. Another work in progress to hopefully someday complete. I accomplished the same results this year for NaNoWriMo, but went about it a totally different way.<\/p>\n

In previous years, I would get up an hour earlier in the morning to write and would generally accomplish a third to a half of my daily writing before going to work. This year, I did not get up earlier. I wrote at lunch and I wrote in the evenings and and I wrote on the weekends and I simply got it done. Not sure how, because in the past when I’ve gotten up early I’ve had difficulty winning. Not this year. Maybe that means I will finish this book.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I don’t have a book, not even a pale facsimile of a book. I have a couple of scenes, probably opening and middle scenes, and a whole lot of character development. I wrote more “flashback” than current story and wrote one scene, a date scene, in far too much detail. Over half of it will be tossed in the final edit, most likely, but it’s there on the page now.<\/p>\n

I have a decent grasp of two characters, a really good grasp on one character, a wildcard mystery character that is more “info ex machina” right now than useful character. I have zero character development for the antagonist. How did I get 50,000 words done and have zero antagonist development? I did as I described above.<\/p>\n

I mean, I have plenty of second hand conjecture and “info ex machina” information on the antagonist, but he only shows up in one written scene, which is not complete. He actually does show up “off-screen” at another point in the story, but I’m not sure where that scene falls in the storyline.<\/p>\n

My plan of attack at this point is as follows:<\/p>\n