November Nanowrimo

I love the fact that I made a huge post about being BACK on blogger and then subsequently fell off the face of the earth. Oops?

So the past 6 or so months have been fairly full of writing. I wrote about 78k total in June and July for June nanowrimo. I'm looking at picking that project up again in the new year to finish the draft (A friend will be reading what I have so far over Holiday Break and I'm waiting to see what her thoughts on it are before I dive back in).

I started classes Evergreen, they have been going quite well. I was able to use November Nanowrimo as my sustained writing piece of a class this quarter. I did not finish nano unfortunately. I hit 36k, got sick the second to last day of november and decided it wasn't worth killing myself over. So my goal for December is to write 1000/day to finish the first draft (give or take a week). This story may be familiar to people who have been followers of this blog in the past, it's a reboot of Red Inside (which, sorry, is no longer available for public reading). And when I say reboot, I do mean reboot. The structure has been completely and radically revamped. The narrative is 3rd person though it vacillates between omniscient and limited, jumps forwards and backwards in time, loops back on itself and generally feels like something radically different than anything else I've written.

Because I have been writing it in conjunction with my class, I've also incorporated outside materials in a way I've never felt compelled to before. Chapters have epigraphs and scenes have quotes from my peer group work and from readings in class. I've also been incorporating "responses" if you will to Thalia Field's Experimental Theatre (link) as narrative excursions. It's been an interesting trip and I'm pretty far from being finished with it. For those interested, keep reading for an

Excerpt, from Red Inside (da) by K Rumsey (do not copy, reproduce, use without permission etc)

3034 / 85000 words. 4% done!

I fell two days behind due to parties, dinners and the holiday (only 500 words written between July 3/4) but I plan on doing a little more writing this evening that will hopefully get today on track and the whole thing moving forward.

Still waiting for inspiration about my 'inciting incident' to round out chapter one. I have most of the rest of it written.

Music rec for today which I think is also fairly applicable to the novel is:

Animal by Miike Snow, the chorus is brilliant, I just want to crank it up and dance around with my eyes closed. The vid's pretty awesome too. I think this song is begging to be remixed well but I have yet to hear a remix of it that improves on the original. total fail.

Proof of writing goals

2077 / 85000 words. 2%

From yesterday. I havent been able to meet a 1500/day goal so I scaled it back to 1000/day which has actually been fairly doable the last couple days. It's just a process of take a little time away and saying ok going to do this until I write X number of words and not allowed to do anything else until that goal is reached. About 40% of yesterday's words were, for example, written while I was stuck in the bathroom letting my hair colour develop lol

Am slowly learning to appreciate the writing in pieces tendency. I have three distinct scenes from three different sections already written out. One is in the wrong person and is actual from 2 months ago and may therefore get completely axed (its not included in my running word count for that reason) another is a very rough sketch of a very late scene during the climax which I original intended to be chapter one but don't feel strongly enough to place there. And currently I'm working on something that feels more like the latter half of chapter one rather than the actual beginning. I need an opener, a real grabby exciting incident to lead with and either make a leap forward in time (ie 12 Hours Later, that sort of thing) or make a leap back in time (like 5 Day Ago). I just havent zeroed in on what that should be yet. I have determined to just forge ahead with what I have at the moment, a case and a bit of misdirection building to the main plot, and see what comes to me.

Friend Katie is having her graduation celebration today, very exciting. Huge shout out to her for being absolutely awesome. I'm so happy for her, that's she done and all mastered up XD

Soundtrack for Red Inside (working title)

1. Fire in Your New Shoes by Kaskade feat. Martina Sobara (of Dragonette)

This is the title song and my No.1 inspiration for Red Inside. I adore Martina Sobara, her style, her hair and her voice are delectable.

2. Holding Out for a Hero remix cover by Frou Frou

I really love the original version of this song BUT I think this cover by Imogen Heap really stands on its own two feet as both a tribute to the original and a NEW fresh take on the classic. This song is also my personal "Sherlock BBC" theme.

3. I Am Not a Robot by Martina & the Diamonds

This song keeps me in mind where Cam is going over the course of not just this story but the serial arch.

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Will add more as my personal playlist for this story grows. Currently switching between listening to a Martina & the Diamonds and a BellX1 station on pandora.

Woo Hoo!

516 / 85000 words - 1%