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Nov. 1st, 2013 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI'm attempting NaNo again this year, after failing to get started last year because of Sandy and failing disastrously the year before because I tried to write Nabokov fanfiction. I stayed up until midnight last night to get a running start, and wrote 500 words between midnight and 12:30, which roughly equalled the combined output of the other two people in our regional chatroom in that time frame. So, a decent start.
Novel is titled "This Novel Takes Place Entirely in the Kitchen." I don't have a plot yet- I've been half-jokingly saying that I'll pull plots from Plotto. I do have a pretty kickass first line: "He was crying, but only because he was chopping onions."
The three things I am trying to focus on in this project are building complicated sets of character-driven interactions, managing a non-linear plot in a linearly told story, and creating a fictional urban geography that feels real, a setting that functions as a character. If I can pull off those three things, I will consider this a successful writing experiment.
Already in the first 500 words we have met one character and dangled our feet in the dynamics of his relationships with several others. We have played lightly with time dilation effects, but continued to move the story forward in a linear fashion. We have seen evidence of several city neighborhoods that have personalities. And all of this while chopping vegetables.
I am excited about this project... I love the idea of the kitchen as a framing device that limits the reader's access to information, I love the idea of the kitchen as a meeting place, an intersection of family and friends and culture and food, a place where stories happen. Hopefully I won't flame out simply because I don't know my plot.
Novel is titled "This Novel Takes Place Entirely in the Kitchen." I don't have a plot yet- I've been half-jokingly saying that I'll pull plots from Plotto. I do have a pretty kickass first line: "He was crying, but only because he was chopping onions."
The three things I am trying to focus on in this project are building complicated sets of character-driven interactions, managing a non-linear plot in a linearly told story, and creating a fictional urban geography that feels real, a setting that functions as a character. If I can pull off those three things, I will consider this a successful writing experiment.
Already in the first 500 words we have met one character and dangled our feet in the dynamics of his relationships with several others. We have played lightly with time dilation effects, but continued to move the story forward in a linear fashion. We have seen evidence of several city neighborhoods that have personalities. And all of this while chopping vegetables.
I am excited about this project... I love the idea of the kitchen as a framing device that limits the reader's access to information, I love the idea of the kitchen as a meeting place, an intersection of family and friends and culture and food, a place where stories happen. Hopefully I won't flame out simply because I don't know my plot.