New Ideas

I had a great Tuesday night. The only thing that could have made it better would have been being in two places at once. I needed that time-thingy Hermione had in Prisoner of Azkaban.

The other night I was looking for "What else is out there?" Or possibly, "What goes bump in the night?" I surfed Wikipedia and distilled it down to a smaller list. I just want something different. (Basically because I have separate vampire and werewolf stories right now.) I have an idea for a heroine and I needed a world to build that she could mold to.

Anyway, I was looking through my American Legends and Folktale books and found a great idea. I'm sufficiently stoked about it. I'm still trying to work the idea out in my head (and on paper). It does fall into one of those categories on the list, but is different enough with a "local" twang that I think it's a rare idea. It's not quite ready for me to share yet. I want to nail more things down before I do.

I have a question: How many projects (stories, etc.) do you work on at one time? Do you have all these other ideas, but only focus on one thing at a time?

2YN-ing

Been working on my 2YN. (Makes me think of Y2K. heh) The latest assignment is about goals and conflict. I've come up with so much conflict - I think I have some of my subplots worked out because of it. Woohoo! My OWG would be proud of the rocks I've collected to throw at my main character.

I also reread part of my NaNo. Turns out, it has more potential than I thought. There are some really good scenes. A few sentences really dance on their own too. (Of course, those are usually the ones that end up being edited out...)

Addendum to brilliance

I forgot. My MC decided she'd wouldn't mind being in the story again if I changed some things (i.e. bumped the time up a little, funded construction projects in her home town, etc.)

I'm stoked about that too.

When you have an addendum to a post about your brilliance, does that make you less brilliant? Let's pretend it doesn't.

I'm brilliant!

Had a wicked breakthrough last night in my outlining/plotting process in one of those moments in which everything just started clicking. I was so excited I didn't want to stop.

In times like those, don't you just want to shout to the world how brilliant you are?

Enter Sandman

Still don't have a new MC since my old one decided she wanted to live in the future (perhaps a sequel), but that's getting way ahead of where the story is right now. Since I'm sort of character-less at the moment I'm not trying to decide if more than one point of view is the best way to tell the story.

I have decided more features of the world and the inhabitants. I'm going to a pre-write-in for NaNo tonight. It's to help us plot and brainstorm before November starts. I'm looking forward to it. I've going to the one in the next big town over. I can't wait until my town's ML announces the write-in for this area. It'll be a big gas/money/time/hassle saver. Still, the girls I've been in contact with down there seem very gung-ho about it all.

Oh, I've also started working on the "soundtrack" for the book. Right now I'm browsing Metallica songs. Nothing's definite yet.

Unruly characters

Well, I was working on my story and it took an unexpected turn. The character I was going to have be the MC wanted to live further in the future than when this book is set. So, I need a new MC. grrr.

Researching

I've been trying to brainstorm on my plot. It's slow going. I'm not really sure what I want to even happen. I have the MC (who I think will tell the story) and I know generally what's going to happen, but I don't have the world nailed down yet.

Question: Are there any books in which the MC isn't the person telling the story? (Clarification: A secondary character tells another person's story from their point of view - would that make the secondary character the MC?)

Marching onward - I've got more reading/researching to do.

Outlining

My initial idea for NaNo had a lot of potential. I even wrote it down. But I can't put my hands on it now that I need it. I've looked through all the places I think I'd have written it down.
So I thought I'd flesh out my WiP and just add to that. Wesley talked me out of that. He thinks I've got too much invested in that novel to risk it to a month of potentially disastrous writing. That had merit, so I pulled out those notebooks I couldn't find my original idea in and found another idea that I could flesh out.
I'm still working on it. My problem? I really want to work on my WiP, but I don't think I'll have time/energy to put into both for the next two months. Hopefully the ideas will keep flowing for this new novel.