It’s been rather a lot more days than I’d planned before updating,
but I’ve been a bit busy with work and family and turning 22 so this is the
first chance I’ve had to update.
So far, my Nano plans are all on schedule and I have an
almost completed synopsis for the first book of the planned “Seas” trilogy.
This has made it so much easier to start to work together the snippets I’ve
written so far. I now not only know where my characters need to start and end,
but how they’re going to get from A to B as well. It’ll be interesting to see
how much things change once I start writing. Usually at that point the plan
goes out of the window and my plot bunnies start to run away with things again.
One day, I will learn to control those bunnies!
My next job is to create some pretty in-depth character bios
before I start writing again. I’d like to think I know my characters pretty
well by now, but I do like the idea of having a proper biography of each of
them before I get going this year. I think it can be easy to forget how your
characters think and what makes them do what they do when you’re working with
so many of them, so bios are a really good way to make sure they all stay in
character and serve their purpose.
I’m quite a visual person when it comes to creative thinking
so I also like to collect a few photos and sketches of people and places to
help me really see what I’m writing about. My scrapbook is getting increasingly
full of little bits of paper so I’m hopefully going to be organising them into
something a little more accessible in time to start scribbling again! I've been investigating some cheap cork noticeboards that I might invest in so I can pin up a few of my favourites.
I’m not sure how much writing time I’ll be getting in the
next couple of weeks, as the imminent arrival of my copy of Guildwars 2 could be
taking up a fair bit of my time while I unleash my inner gamer once again. I always find that playing fantasy games like
this really kickstarts my imagination though, so we’ll see what comes of it
once I get going.
Hope everyone else’s Nano plans are coming together too.
Only two months to go now!
Emily x
