NaNo Plotting (aka, Decisions? Where?)

If you’ve been around a bit (like, as long as having read my last post,) you know that I have some unfinished works lying around. Just a couple. One or two. Maybe seventeen. (It’s not seventeen.) (I hope.)

So I’ve been dithering what to do about NaNo. And dithering helps no one. So though I don’t have strong feelings about it (following “strong feelings” is how I get all these things started and then dropped when the strong feeling goes from “gotta write this omg!” to “oh geez this is hard why IS this thing I wrote happening? How am I supposed to solve it if I don’t know that? OOH SHINY NEW BOOK IDEA!” and around we go again.)

Ahem. I have a lot of thoughts.

Decisions, though? Not a bunch of them. Howsomeever, I have now made a decision.

The Plan

Actually, it’s sort of like a decision? I will work on from one to four projects, depending on how it goes. (So decisive! Much determination.) Before November, I will create a number of scene cards for my Alaska story (two young men attracted to each other, stuck working at an Alaskan lodge without internet for the summer, supposed to be NaNovel 2019) my princess story (supposed to have gone in this wonderful anthology, but I got stuck,) Flame II (Desert of DOOM!) and finally, the last (dear lork let it be the last) scene/two scenes of my Srivasi serial that I had no intention of having go on this long but I’ve been busy with other things.

I want to finish things, so it won’t be in that order. Pretty sure I can finish Srivasi in a day or two of NaNo speed, and then maybe the princess one which actually mostly exists I think? But I’ll bounce as needed. Both because I want to learn to switch between projects, and because I know I’ll quit if I can’t sometimes just go “no, I don’t want to work on this.”

Obviously I’ve stuck with one project the whole way through NaNo before. But I’m pretty sure I have not ONCE done it when I was working on a not-new story. So we’ll try to remedy that potential reason for wimping out.

Spoke Too Soon?

Aaaaand then we went up the mountain, and foolishly approached too close to a craft fair (we were looking for cheap lunch, which we acquired!) and now I have a Nemesis necklace.

I keep thinking it’s a sign that I need to write Nemesis for NaNo, but I will not. I will make it project number five, if I get to it. But Srivasi and the princess story have to be finished before I can throw Nemesis in.

Because Nemesis still doesn’t have a plot. It has lots of interesting SITUATION, but not a PLOT.

Geez, I love convoluted plans to make me do work and get things done. Obviously, since I keep coming up with them.

Wish me luck, friends. 🙂

And go check out May the Best Ghost Win if you haven’t. I’m so excited!