{"id":208,"date":"2015-11-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=208"},"modified":"2015-11-10T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:00:00","slug":"nanowrimo-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Nanowrimo prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>usually I walk into national novel writing month facing a blank page. This time I had a plan.<\/p>\n<p>I had an idea for a novel three weeks before NaNoWriMo was set to start. It is based on some brainstorming for two words that I got through Storymatic, a game that consists of cards with the character and action. In this case it was<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fashion designer<\/li>\n<li>an historical reenactment gone awry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>after brainstorming, I came up with the character of an ex-Army Ranger, older, retired, who likes rocking the cradle by going out with younger men. This Army guy had a want to be a fashion designer ex-boyfriend. During a World War II reenactment, a murder occurs in the ex-boyfriend was arrested. Army ranger guy feels bad and decides to help the guy out.<\/p>\n<p>However I didn&#8217;t think that that would be enough to carry a novel. I\u00a0outlined the main plot. Then I came up with two subplots: a runaway niece, and a matchmaker. \u00a0I got some index cards and wrote out the outline for the main story, then wrote out the subplot stories and interspersed them with the main plot.<\/p>\n<p>That took all of a day.<\/p>\n<p>I still had a little over 2 weeks to figure this out. \u00a0So I sat down and did character freewrites whenever I had a chance for the main characters: Protagonist, antagonist, the niece, the matchmaker, the ex-boyfriend. \u00a0I also answered detailed questions for the protagonist and the antagonist.<\/p>\n<p>When I started NaNoWriMo, I did 10K words on the first day. \u00a0Mind you, I dictated it, but I walked in with a generally clear idea of what to say and how to say it. \u00a0Of course, I&#8217;m a pantser at heart, so I&#8217;ve gone off the outline a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m at almost 41K words. \u00a0I&#8217;m at the climax, and I&#8217;m not sure if I can milk it for another 10K words, so I can see myself going back and doing text walls of description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usually I walk into national novel writing month facing a blank page. This time I had a plan. I had an idea for a novel three weeks before NaNoWriMo was set to start. It is based on some brainstorming for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}