The Plot Thickens
amber October 8th, 2006
Thanks to the Adopt-A-Plot thread on the Nano Forums, I think that I have a plot. Or, should I say, an Idea. Yes, as in capital “I” Idea. Wanna hear it?
A woman in her mid-twenties works in a small bookshop with a selection of deliciously eccentric characters. Everything’s going fine, if a bit mundane, when one day she picks up a book from the floor and a polaroid photo drops out of it. She glances at the cover and it’s a book about stalkers… and the polaroid is a picture of her taken through the window of her apartment.
Now, I think I’m going to mess with it a bit, but the bookstore and the photo in the book will stay. Instead of stalker, I think I’m going to go as far as serial killer. After that, it’s all a blur at the moment.
I’m actually attempting to be pro-active here in regards to Nano… I’m trying to sort out a plot beforehand, actually *gasp* outlining the damned thing. Last year, while I did do some planning, I didn’t do either enough or a good enough job with it. I’ve posted some of the chapters to one of the online groups that I’m a part of, and there were too many comments that the writing was sub-par for me, of differing levels of “niceness”. That sticks, ya know.
And, while it stung, it’s the truth. That was some really crappy writing that I did last year, and while that’s mostly expected from Nano, I know that I can do better than what I did. The two years previous, I wrote better, but I got completely hung up on trying to figure out WHAT I was going to write about instead of going ahead and actually writing it, which is why I failed.
So, I’m getting my shit together and organizing. Beforehand. Not During.
Wish me luck, I’ll damned well need it.
