Things are getting interesting. NaNoWriMo is getting harder - even though I only have 15,000 words left to reach the NaNo goal of 50,000.? I’m just short of halfway through my outline…. but I’ve discovered that I have missing scenes and that the order I outlined things in isn’t quite working.? I’m not changing the outline right now - though I am adding a few scenes where they’re really needed.? I’m just writing through the outline and I’ll tear the whole thing apart later when I edit it.? I think the overall story will end up being between 80,000 and 100,000 before I edit it.

I’ve also discovered that even when I’m trying to write lots of words, I’m still stingy with descriptions. *laughs* I know what the characters and settings look like and I forget the readers don’t.? Descriptions will definitely add to the length of the story when I edit it.

There’s one other thing that’s causing me difficulty when working on my NaNo story. ? I was listening to the radio on the way home from work and the lyrics of one song just struck me as a good idea for a story - so much that I had to jot down the name of the song and the artist so I wouldn’t lose it.? I figured that if I wrote down the concept when I got home, it would be willing to sit in the background and wait until NaNo was over.

I was wrong. Not only was it not willing to sit in the background, but it procreated. It became 4 short stories.? Then it grew a framework that would connect all four stories. The stories probably could stand on their own…. and I’m hoping that’s the case because I was thinking this might be a short story idea that I could look into getting published.

I’ve had to buy a notebook to start writing the framework.? I’m doing it in longhand, mainly to keep it separate from my NaNo writing and put it in its context. It’s making me want to finish my NaNo story as soon as possible, but at the same time I’m finding it hard to concentrate on the NaNo story!

Ah well, I can certainly think of worse writing problems to have!