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Nov. 17th, 2009 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wildflowersoulNote to self: reading lots of literary agent blogs about query letters is a very bad idea when your first rough draft is not finished.
Am feeling a bit flaily because I'm at 36K words in NaNo, and while I do have a plot, and it is moving, I'm realizing that I'm pretty much totally lacking in actual grounded motivations for what everyone is doing in my story. Like, bad guys need reasons to be bad. Besides just twirling their luxurious mustaches. I am freaking out about the vague pointlessness to the entire thing. How can I have written 50 pages of story with no real point to it all? But that is what revisions are for, right? Right.
Sorry for all the NaNoWriMo updates, it's pretty much taking up all my brain space these days. The good news is that I'm on track to finish in about a week. Then maybe I'll have this thing shaped up to actually be useful in half a year.
Am feeling a bit flaily because I'm at 36K words in NaNo, and while I do have a plot, and it is moving, I'm realizing that I'm pretty much totally lacking in actual grounded motivations for what everyone is doing in my story. Like, bad guys need reasons to be bad. Besides just twirling their luxurious mustaches. I am freaking out about the vague pointlessness to the entire thing. How can I have written 50 pages of story with no real point to it all? But that is what revisions are for, right? Right.
Sorry for all the NaNoWriMo updates, it's pretty much taking up all my brain space these days. The good news is that I'm on track to finish in about a week. Then maybe I'll have this thing shaped up to actually be useful in half a year.
