Planning for NaNoWriMo

This is a goal for a person I won’t meet.

I have never really been a planner. There I have said it.

For some who know me, this is not a surprise. I like to be organised, I don’t always succeed. Files on a computer are very ordered. Folders in folders and all make sense and are logical.

But when it comes to trying to write short story, a collection on a theme, or even when trying to tackle what I just call ‘ze novel’, probably inspired by watch Snatch too often. It has become an ever growing mass of pages in OneNote, interlinked and so much that I have lost the plot of what the original story was.

I did find the different versions of ‘100 questions‘ idea very helpful, but this did actually just add more to the world creation as opposed to creating a story. (There is also this list of 175 questions which is also helpful with some nice titles).

For example, when considering the social make up of the ‘Border’ Dwarfs (Doesn’t everyone have at least 3 separate groupings of dwarfs?), the back history, the short war between them and the human community that lived on the plains that were by the mountains. How this represented the different doorways for the King of this kingdom and how this created the history of both these kingdoms. – This whole thing began from this one tweet using the word ‘bone‘.

The longer story of this encounter can be found here if interested. But I know what you are thinking, will this ever make it into ‘ze novel’? Well we shall see. The problem with those last 4 words is the same reason I have simply multiple pages of brief dialogue, back history, creation beliefs, religions and even games that are played. I have lost the over prospective of what I am trying to write. There was something that at the beginning, promise!

So with the upcoming #nanowrimo I have sat down and actually mapped out a plan. I was in a meeting at work but this can be out little secret yeh?

So I have a plan, I have added this to yet another page on the OneNote file. But I am determined to actually try and write this out. It’s official title is ‘ze novel 2’.

I will say this again. ‘I have a plan!‘

Will this plan be followed through as the month of July moves on. Time will reveal. I have the plan made for my older self, to try to write about 1700 words a day, for my even older self to have most of ‘ze novel’ to potentially form ‘The novel’.