NaNo Day 12: 18574 (so far)
I’m struggling with conflict today. I sought assistance in the How To Think Sideways course yesterday and felt pretty good about what I was able to plan out, but I’m still fighting a tendency to drone on and on in narrative without using the characters to move the story.
I wonder if there’s a Point of View (POV) that will force me to more action, but I suspect I can twist any POV toward a droning textbook discussion. I must be the most boring person I know, and I fear my writing is reflecting that lately.
Today’s NaNo goal is 20,004. I should be able to reach that. Hopefully, some of that will be usable manuscript instead of plotting planning. But I’ll take what I can get, because all of it will be revisable into something useful eventually. Besides, this is a genre (sci-fi) that has so much possibility, how could I not explore it more?
Oh, yeah, the Sideways lesson that was helpful to me? Lesson 12.
A case of once a teacher/instructor always a teacher?
Maybe. That implies that teachers are supposed to be boring, and that’s not accurate. (But, yes, I figure I’m a pretty boring teacher, so I’m not offended by that comment.)
I had to pull out Dot and Line and remind myself that I needed what made the situation extraordinary. ‘Cause if it’s ordinary, it has no business being there — unless ordinary is, in and of itself, extraordinary. That helped.