NaNoWriMo

So, I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year, I haven't done it before and I think I'll fail but it's worth a shot. 50000 words written in 30 days. It'll be a challenge if I only count words in stories, but I don't think I'll have any shot at that, so I'm going to include blog entries. I can't help that I can get out a 1000 word blog entry in no time at all and never consider it a chore, but writing original fiction is such a drudge, when I'm uninspired or just feel like I can't write well.

I have an idea for an original fiction (an area I've never ventured into before, though I really should have) and I'll try to get something out of that. I'm also going to be writing my schoolies zombie apocalypse story. Okay, I'll admit, that did start with me just writing a lot of one on one scenes with one specific person but I moved all of that into a different document entitled 'Warstory-romcom' to shame me for it :P

This story is much fun for me, it's the exact genre I enjoy writing. Lots of angst, insight into the human condition and a chance to play with my friends lives like my and one of my best friends do on the Sims. It's good fun, I don't know if they'll end up seeing it. It's hard not to be honest when I write, especially not from a first person perspective and it's not like I think my friends are perfect. Half of them annoy the heck out of me and I'm not that nice a person, my head can be full of criticism or judgement on occasion. Also, I know that just because they're my friends, doesn't mean I know what's going on inside their heads. Some better than others I'd say, but some people are pretty closed book to me, whereas others I know pretty well what they're thinking. But again, zombie apocalypse, who knows how they'd react. I got a bit of a glimpse when I asked everyone to assign people into groups. I was pleased that everyone that I asked did it pretty much as I asked, putting thought and reasoning into it. I was only really disappointed with you-know-who's, because I couldn't get him to be serious enough to really do it. I just got 'you and I definitely wouldn't be together, I can't stand being around you (that was the gist anyway), and the same about someone else, which I didn't realise so that at least was helpful. But he wouldn't find a combo that would conceivably work. I mean, there was no perfect combination. Taking into account personal preferences, which I considered the highest of importance, plus even cars for strategy and driving ability... he went the all the good people in one car and the rest in the other, which isn't viable. 

Urgh, sorry, rant over.

I was just thinking though, as I was writing bits of it (the spark to this blog entry) was that sometimes I can write his character really well (in my opinion), but I mean, I think I have it consistent with his personality. When I talk to him online especially, I can usually guess his responses. Not always, he does surprise me occasionally but generally, I find him in the realm of predictable. But in person, I find him much more unpredictable which makes him hard to write. He's usually less nice.

So it's hard to know how to characterise him right.... if I write him inconsistently it's because he is inconsistent, but I'll just look like a bad writer, because I don't know all his underlying motivations so it'll remain unexplained.

Ah well. Back to studying. More later probably, since I have to write 1666 words a day... 1000 to go.