... blogging

Gee, I've done this before, and yet it's still exciting to see the results.
After this blogsite was recommended, I thought about starting to blog again for a few days.
It's not like I don't know what to write about, with nanowrimo starting in just a few days, I should be busy plotting and creating characters for my third nano novel, but somehow, I only have managed to do a tiny bit of that.
But if I start this year's nano the way I started my first nano, all should go well - I only had a sentence just before midnight that led me to write it down just after midnight on November 1, and then I wrote a few more sentences before doing a first count of the words I had written.
About twohundredsomething, only, but I knew how to continue.
Without any plotting before November, with only a few well known characters which I have written about pre-nanowrimo, I managed to get along well, and I'm still amazed how I managed to write about 2K of words every day, most of them after a rough enough day at the office.
This year, though, I thought I could do some plotting, and since a lot of fellow nano participants are talking about how they have created their characters, how they described scenes already, I began to wonder whether they still have any fun when writing next week?
For me, a big part of the fun (and yes, one is allowed to have fun while writing!) of the writing process is to find out where the characters are led by the plot, only part of which I might know in advance. While I have an idea of the plot, of the beginning and the end, and maybe even of parts in the middle, when writing, another scene might come up, change completely, and the characters might even change their minds about something.
Oh well, just the usual, eh? Something that a lot of people have mentioned before, and that is something that I have always enjoyed reading about.
I am soon going to post one of my short stories here, one which I have decided to translate to see whether it works in other countries as well...

Best,
Barbara

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