My plot seeds are growing! From a tiny little seed I'm starting to see sprouts of something that could potentially turn out amazing... If only I can grow it properly.
You see, I am someone who doesn't come up with good solutions to plot problems when I'm not under pressure. Even now, I can tell you the things I know about my little baby plot are just the characters and setting. I don't even hardly know the characters. Pressure forces me to think outside of the box... outside of the little novel world and into what would anger me most if I was reading it. Because that is one of the things that has always kept me reading something. If I'm mad, I wanna keep going til I'm happy with it again. That could just be me, but that's how it's always been. Under pressure, I have to keep going despite the little rabbit trails and traps along the way. I think that's the reason I survived NaNo last year.
That... and a laptop. Which I presently fail to own... I don't know what I'm going to do without one. But I shall make it work. Paper or electronically. Because this story demands to be written. So keep going despite your adversity and I'll keep going despite mine. :)
I think you will find writing with paper and pen far more inspiring than a laptop :) I do!
ReplyDeleteAnd meet your characters! That is the best thing you can do! Learn about them first and the rest of the story will come together under their direction :)