Thursday, August 12, 2010

NaNoWriMo

So, I've been thinking a lot about NaNo this year and early on I decided that I was just going to do a collection of short stories with an interweaving fantasy theme. Yesterday a scene came to me for a short story and the grief and heartbreak of the main character was just so real that it was impossible to think of anything else. When I discussed the idea with Jon (and Aiden of course) it became clear that I was only seeing a very small portion of this story, there is so much more to this character than the grief I saw.

Having said that, it's no longer an idea for a short story, but for a possible novel. Depending on how much character development I could get done before November, I may scrap my short story ideas and go with this. Yeah... I'm setting myself up for a lot of pain this November, but this is a story that speaks to me and I can't just let this character suffer without telling his story. I'll just have to make sure I buy a bunch of tissue boxes in preparation.

-Krys


Sunday, August 1, 2010

Updates

So... I know I've been slacking off on my blog lately and I'm really sorry!! The thing is, I have been sick a lot lately and I've been going through some really terrible things with my last job (which I finally quit). The only really good news about me being unemployed is that I have a lot more time now to work on "Eyes on Fire" which I have done a lot of. I actually have goals to achieve!

Currently, I'm working on getting to know my characters better so I can know what needs to be changed and fixed in the story. I've realized that by doing this, I have discovered so many things that I have done wrong. I guess it's good to find out new things about your characters, but it's also a bit obnoxious that it keeps changing how the story works. Oh well, I know things will eventually work out.

-Krys