National Novel Writing Month, Day 7
Word count: 1,745
Today I did some thinking while the weather did the monsoon thing. The weather ended up contributing to my thinking because I tried approaching Weirdsmith, my NaNo 2015 novel that has been in frozen animation for the past six days, from a different angle and that angle came to me because of the torrential rain.
In the original concept, which I carried over from the unfinished 1991 Weirdsmith play, the character of Smith is found hurt and bleeding in the woods by a couple out camping. From there it all starts. I’m now thinking of scrapping this in favor if Smith hurting himself in a car accident and his journal comes in somewhere just before or after the crash. The book is, in fact, the core of the novel, as it dominates his life. Or something like that.
I didn’t actually write today–except for this blog post–but I will make my best attempt tomorrow, with the triumphant or tragicomic results posted here.
