A little help with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), please?
I’m trying to write a novel for NaNoWriMo, and I think I’m on the right track in terms of characters, literary devices, etc. The one little problem is that I cannot come up with a ****?d enough plot.
The basic storyline revolves around a girl who ***?ems to feel her dead brother’s presence all around her. Her mother is developing Alzheimer’s, and she has a younger sibling. She knows that her physical and mental condition is ****?idly deteriorating (due to what: I don’t know yet), so, ***? the only able ***?rson in her whole ***?mily, she ****?ts to record a sort of account of her ***?mily history, her life, since she does not ****?t to be forgotten in the ***?ture etc. ***? ***?me passes, her ability to write becomes worse (like in “Flowers for Algernon”), and she needs to be taken care of constantly. Her younger sibling takes over her role ***? the “recorder of anecdotes”.
–This is the point at which I’m completely lost. Maybe before, I don’t know. If anyone has any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to voice them!
- SravieInTheSky
Tags: Anecdotes, Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, Sibling, Write A Novel
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
You have a plot right there — now let the characters drive it. If your main character is in this situation, what would she do? Have her do it. This action causes a reaction which makes her make a decision. What does she decide? How does this decision effect her situation? Her action has led to a reaction which leads to another decision . . .
Hope that helps.
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I find a ***?re-all for these sort of things is to add a element of ***?ntasy, which I can’t give you something specific because, really, you’ve got to write you’re own story.
But, anyway, you could–instead of having it be some sort of disease–you could make it be a really, really deep depression, and she just doesn’t ***?em to ***?e the point in writing anymore, in anything. What’s cool about depression in literature is that it takes the stand of the disease, ****? it tests the characters strengths because only they can ***?re it. You should give the character a creative way to come out of the disease, like maybe she suddenly realises that if she ***?ve up on life, that would be ruining all her mother’s efforts to raise her, or even add a little romance, or like I said, a ***?ntasy element. Anyway, I hope I helped