Well! After my first week of NaNoWriMo, I have absolutely concluded that next year I'm going to plan out my novel much more than I did this year. This year I started with an opening paragraph in my head, and three vague character ideas.
Being a week in, I wonder how I'm going to make this stretch to 50,000 words, but I suppose that I owe it to myself and my characters to see them to the end. They're just going to have to suffer so, so much on our way there. Also, this will give me plenty of time to develop my villains. So far I only have one, but I might as well add another one or two, just for kicks and giggles. Why not. :)
My current villain goes by the name of William, and he's kind of mean so far. He has gone fishing for a magical creature and was mean to it (that sounds like something from a children's book...), and just recently he kidnapped my main character (oh no! It's ok, she's a werewolf, she can handle it haha). He likes to act all nice and friendly, but he also likes to eat eyeballs. So that's a problem. I still haven't decided why he eats eyes. Why would he do that? I can't imagine that they taste good, but I suppose when you're an evil sorcerer your taste buds change? Maybe. He doesn't even eat human eyes. Hmm. Ok, so, he's only eaten one eye since we've met him in the novel, but I'm sure he'll try and eat one of my main characters' eyes any day now, so I should probably think up some valid reason for him doing that. He's also planning on blowing up all sorts of important stuff, but I have come up with reasonable reasons for that, so I guess it's a start.
GUYS I'M SO BAD AT VILLAINS. I've noticed that even when I'm watching tv shows or movies I have a really hard time (not empathizing) but understanding villain's motivations. Sometimes when bad things happen to characters and they decide to go all anti-hero, I'm just like "...get over it..." and that's making my villains hard to write.
I guess they're just passionate people? With lots of feelings? I don't know.
Anyway, back to writing. I'm ahead of goal, but still behind on my daily-average-word-count.
Words: 12,376
Outlook: Pensive
Being a week in, I wonder how I'm going to make this stretch to 50,000 words, but I suppose that I owe it to myself and my characters to see them to the end. They're just going to have to suffer so, so much on our way there. Also, this will give me plenty of time to develop my villains. So far I only have one, but I might as well add another one or two, just for kicks and giggles. Why not. :)
My current villain goes by the name of William, and he's kind of mean so far. He has gone fishing for a magical creature and was mean to it (that sounds like something from a children's book...), and just recently he kidnapped my main character (oh no! It's ok, she's a werewolf, she can handle it haha). He likes to act all nice and friendly, but he also likes to eat eyeballs. So that's a problem. I still haven't decided why he eats eyes. Why would he do that? I can't imagine that they taste good, but I suppose when you're an evil sorcerer your taste buds change? Maybe. He doesn't even eat human eyes. Hmm. Ok, so, he's only eaten one eye since we've met him in the novel, but I'm sure he'll try and eat one of my main characters' eyes any day now, so I should probably think up some valid reason for him doing that. He's also planning on blowing up all sorts of important stuff, but I have come up with reasonable reasons for that, so I guess it's a start.
GUYS I'M SO BAD AT VILLAINS. I've noticed that even when I'm watching tv shows or movies I have a really hard time (not empathizing) but understanding villain's motivations. Sometimes when bad things happen to characters and they decide to go all anti-hero, I'm just like "...get over it..." and that's making my villains hard to write.
I guess they're just passionate people? With lots of feelings? I don't know.
Anyway, back to writing. I'm ahead of goal, but still behind on my daily-average-word-count.
Words: 12,376
Outlook: Pensive
uhhh... totally unrelated, but since it's Wednesday, here's a picture of two baby seals kissing!
BABY SEALS!!!!
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