All this past week or so I have been lurking around the National Novel Writing Month website. (I'll post a link at the end of this post). It's finally time to start seriously thinking about my novel. For the last year or so I've been jotting down random ideas in a little notebook. I've developed a few characters, I have a general plot, and several scenes are vivid in my mind. At this point, it's just a matter of killing time until November, so I don't break down and start writing my novel too early!

There are any number of ways to distract myself from actually writing my novel. I can work on developing characters, which I've been doing extensively lately. You can never know a character too well, I think. I should probably be working on figuring out my plot. I have a vague idea of where it's going. And I have several specific scenes playing almost constantly through my head. The only problem is figuring out how to string all those scenes and ideas together so that they make sense.

Maybe I'll focus on that this week, and figure out a solid idea of where my plot is going!

- Aimee

http://www.nanowrimo.org/