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November 3rd, 2012

redbrunja: (stock | keira knightley II)
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 01:15 am
So all my talk about cheating on Nano? And getting a head-start on my novel? I ended up needing to scrap everything I had written prior to November 1st. It's a damn good thing I love irony, isn't it?

I had started my story in the wrong place - which I knew even while writing - I knew that I was starting to story too far back from when it actually began but I wasn't sure where exactly to start... until someone on my flist (I can't remember who) reminded me of Jennifer Crusie's conflict box and I realized that:
  1. I did not have an antagonist (still don't, actually)
  2. There was lots of external peril but no actual conflict in the stuff I was writing
So, yeah, I moved the story up (what would be) eight scenes and thus the previous words I've written are now irrelevant.


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Also, does anyone have any good advice on how to discover who your antagonist is/should be?