NaNoBreakthrough?
OK, I just got out of the shower, where I had an idea that I think is going to make my life (and finishing my NaNoNovel) SOOOO much easier. Here goes:
When I started writing the novel, I decided to write in third person limited - kind of like wandering around life with a webcam on your head, and the reader gets to watch the webcam and also sneak into your head. That's definitely how I want the final novel to be, but I've found there's a sense of immediacy that's missing when I write in that style. Conversely, I absolutely *detest* reading books in the first person but writing in it - like for this blog - is SUPER easy. So here's the brilliant newsflash. For at least the next little while, I'll be writing my novel in first person. And then fix it when the edit comes around.
It probably doesn't seem like that much of a newsflash to anyone else... but it feels like one to me. I'll let you know how it goes.
When I started writing the novel, I decided to write in third person limited - kind of like wandering around life with a webcam on your head, and the reader gets to watch the webcam and also sneak into your head. That's definitely how I want the final novel to be, but I've found there's a sense of immediacy that's missing when I write in that style. Conversely, I absolutely *detest* reading books in the first person but writing in it - like for this blog - is SUPER easy. So here's the brilliant newsflash. For at least the next little while, I'll be writing my novel in first person. And then fix it when the edit comes around.
It probably doesn't seem like that much of a newsflash to anyone else... but it feels like one to me. I'll let you know how it goes.

1 Comments:
At 9:53 PM,
chase said…
lol...whatever works
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