Alright, it's October again, which means that it's time for novel planning! This year, I'm planning to hit NaNoWriMo with a full outline in hand. Every year before, I just pansted all the way and I'm not happy with the results. So I have an outline all written out on the back of my school planner. Though I did make a couple of changes way back, so I'll have to go back and edit that.
Also, world maps! My favorite tactic is just pouring a bit of water onto a flat surface and press a piece of paper onto it and now you have a pretty, new continent! My English teacher doesn't seem happy with me, though.
I was also thinking of writing out a quick short story to get a feel of my characters before a jump in and write, a prequel of sorts. But my characters kidnapped the prequel, declaring it to be a part of the main story now, so I can't write about it.
What else is there to do? Right, research loads of different forms of monarchies to see which one I'm going to base my fantasy country's government off of. Then again, I never really liked going through politics, and it's not even going to be a big part of the story.
This is bad. I need to do some planning before my brain decides to just write the novel inside my head. In fact, I can see the words coming in already. NO! I don't want to see the words yet, just give me two and a half more weeks!
And we'll be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing as we delve deeper into November.
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