yellow spiral note pad
So, the NaNoWriMo has begun today! http://www.nanowrimo.org
I wrote 2,198 words, thanks God I have an outline – it was not painful. I was thinking, may be I should a pitch a column on my adventure to my newspaper, huh? Just for this month. It’s like burning all the bridges… I will have to reach the 50K then, it’s like ‘the whole country is watching!’ 
Funny, how story started making the turns on its own. Or may be it’s a different pattern – the ideas accumulate and involve my everyday activities into the plot of the novel, I am thinking about.
Just two days before the NaNoWriMo began, I was on a bike in the gym, reading the great book First Draft in 30 Days. A thought of a twist in my story suddenly appeared, it was so shy and unsure if it would fit into my literary fiction. Well, I don’t really know what style I was writing. It was clear though, that ‘fit’ it would not. With adopting it, my somehow border free narrative would be defined as a criminal suspense/psychological drama.
But, along with changing the pace, the idea made my story 3D, adult, meaningful, mature, REAL. (way too mane adjectives!) I was so excited; I left the bike, and dropped on my tummy, writing the thoughts vigorously into my bright yellow spiral note pad. I adore yellow spiral note pads.
Wow, with adopting of that used to be shy idea, it’s even going to be a sequel to the original book! And for the original book, the idea united all the threads I was supposed to tighten and explain at the end of the book, and gave meaning to the behavior of the heroes.
And yes, I am not sharing what life experience caused me to make an additional layer on my plot. I will only say, that I had spent that whole day at a conference on Human Trafficking.
Right now, by the way, I am editing an article on it… going to print tomorrow.
Ok, gotta go to bed. It’s 1:30am………..
Hi, Victoria!
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