TECH: Nano Nuts 27?

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Original posting 27 Nov 2011

All right! Hopefully, you're burping lightly from all that wonderful Thanksgiving food, and scribbling away to finish up? Just a few more days, but you too can write some more!

Actually, before we skip past it too lightly, there is that wonderful feast that some of you have enjoyed to use as a possible aid in nanowrimo. Just let your characters enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas feast, barbecue, dinner at a French restaurant, perhaps Chinese takeout -- and walk through all the courses, the smells, the tastes, the crunch of the pastry, the chewy taste of the Guinness, or whatever. In between courses, you might weave in a bit of dialogue, a little action, or even have the bad guys burst in with guns roaring... but enjoy the food, too!

Okay. From the historic files, let's see... aha! Yes, go back and look at the goals of your characters, and consider how they are going to meet them (beat them, change them, fail...). We're getting close to possibly hitting the third act, climax, or other tying up parts of your novel, right? So dealing with those dreams and schemes of your characters is getting important. Will they win the right to live their own way? Will the closing of the old factory destroy them, or will they manage to turn rural life into natural delight? Whatever goals your characters were working towards, now is the time to reconsider them and see how the action, the characters, and all that are going to make a satisfying climax.

Aha. And on the 27th, I was communing with Bradbury again. This time as he charged ahead, drunk on life, in charge of a bicycle. Writing, writing, the man just would not stop writing!

So take a wordy ride on your own bicycle, and see where you end up!