PORCH PONDERINGS

NaNoWriMO - Success!

So, I finished my NaNoWriMo on November 25th. The 50K goal was reached at about 9PM that evening. It was exciting to have done that exercise this year.

During the OctoPrep I gathered my chapters together, we had a lot of staff meetings. We discussed the plot, the settings, the ideas for the little novel I had dreamed of. They gave me some input and I wrote notes. Some ideas were batted around, like any committee meeting. Then once the actual NaNoWriMo even started, I sent those people I had just met to their appointed settings. Along the way, they took some turns I hadn't expected. Many times a character would take a left turn when I wasn't looking. And then another character would enter without invitation. Such is the creative process. Once I had all the characters, they were skeletons, I had to add flesh and personality. Then I had to build for them real worlds to inhabit.

I will miss spending time with my new friends!
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