I am really psyched for this year's NaNoWriMo. It doesn't even bother me that my wonderful idea for this year's novel just decided to morph itself from a Fantasy/Romance to a Science Fiction that may or may not have a romance in it.
I usually don't plan more about a novel than its beginning and its end. In other words, I know who the characters are and where they start and I usually know what the end goal is but I don't plan the middle. I think that is where I have been having such a hard time.
So far I have written two Fantasy novels and one Science Fiction novel. My two failures were both Fantasy too. My three completed novels are mostly in the same shape they were when I finished them. I never went back to edit them and make them complete. Somehow I couldn't bring myself to look at them again. The Science Fiction novel was the best of the three. It is also the most complete. Its only flaw is that when I couldn't figure out what else to do, I killed off another character. I very nearly killed off one of the main characters.
I've been making lists of the scenes I have to write so that when I'm stuck, I can pick one and write it whether it is in order or not. I figure if they can shoot a movie out of order, I can write a story out of order too. It might keep me from getting frustrated when the words stop flowing.
So... does anyone else have some ideas for keeping those words flowing?
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