Still having troubles with procrastination but I did manage to put together an actual council for Auralia to address. I put their descriptions in my excerpt because... it took me a long time to make. That was one of those times where I sat staring at the screen trying to think how best to write a description. I outlined their characters on paper but trying to describe them in a novel is just... difficult. So... yah.
I did feel that actually fleshing out the council changed all the interactions thereafter. With real motivations behind these people I was able to change my monologue into a conversation, which is great. I'm still not totally done reworking things there but basically Auralia is telling the Council how she got into that situation with the trolls. Instead of her just talking a lot I found the characters having some interesting things to say and argue about and the dialogue didn't feel so stilted. It was much better. I don't really have all my world fleshed out because I just kind of generated the story for NaNoWriMo so generating the nations and all that can be a challenge. Still fairly cliche so far... Seriously by mid november I'm hoping to show an excerpt that demonstrates the idea behind my story. I know... mysterious right but trust me it's all good.
Still having trouble with my word count obviously. Doing a bit better but I really need to start digging out of this hole if I'm going to hit 50,000.
Word Count: 4,159
No comments:
Post a Comment