mootmom (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mootmom) wrote,@ 2003-12-10 14:54:00 |
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Orphan characters, abandoned "novel"
Since I've been using this livejournal to muse about NaNoWriMo and writing, I'll continue to do so. Which is probably why I hadn't written anything in a couple weeks: I was toasted from NaNo this year. My poor story... it's probably not even 2/3 done, and I have tossed it aside unceremoniously. I *like* most of the story line and some of what I've already written, but it's not pulling me back. I looked it all over about a week ago, trying to pull out a roughly 2,000-word chunk I could hone into a short piece for critiquing and a submission at the end of Jan. But I couldn't find a single chunk I wanted to pull, which was kind of depressing. Coupled with the complete lack of feedback I got from the 3 people who'd read my 2002 NaNoNovel, which I'd rather liked, in its own quirky and amateurish way, left me really pretty down the whole month of Nov. this year (dunno if y'all could tell or not, but my heart wasn't in it at all this year, I just went through the motions).
And now my poor characters won't ever have their stories told! And poor Mr. Poe will forever be thought a drunkard who committed unwitting suicide! Maybe it's just that I didn't care very much about my characters this year. Can one write convincingly and eagerly about characters one doesn't care much about?
At least I have an idea for next year's NaNo already. And a story I wrote last winter that I might hone for the Jan. submission.
Since I've been using this livejournal to muse about NaNoWriMo and writing, I'll continue to do so. Which is probably why I hadn't written anything in a couple weeks: I was toasted from NaNo this year. My poor story... it's probably not even 2/3 done, and I have tossed it aside unceremoniously. I *like* most of the story line and some of what I've already written, but it's not pulling me back. I looked it all over about a week ago, trying to pull out a roughly 2,000-word chunk I could hone into a short piece for critiquing and a submission at the end of Jan. But I couldn't find a single chunk I wanted to pull, which was kind of depressing. Coupled with the complete lack of feedback I got from the 3 people who'd read my 2002 NaNoNovel, which I'd rather liked, in its own quirky and amateurish way, left me really pretty down the whole month of Nov. this year (dunno if y'all could tell or not, but my heart wasn't in it at all this year, I just went through the motions).
And now my poor characters won't ever have their stories told! And poor Mr. Poe will forever be thought a drunkard who committed unwitting suicide! Maybe it's just that I didn't care very much about my characters this year. Can one write convincingly and eagerly about characters one doesn't care much about?
At least I have an idea for next year's NaNo already. And a story I wrote last winter that I might hone for the Jan. submission.
