Year-long NaNo discussion
Karin
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Mary wrote: "Cool! What's it about? :3"It's a dystopian novel but one my daughter and I have cooked up that gets rid of some of the things we've seen over and over and over again in dystopian novels (which means it could end up with a tiny audience). No love triangles, for example, which is big in y/a dystopian and some other dystopian types. At first it was going to be y/a, but I'm not sure if it will be in the end since there are 2 POVs and only one is young enough for a y/a novel, and for other reasons.
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Sounds like a fun idea, Karin! :-) A non-cliche novel is always an intriguing idea for me... especially since my first novel was exactly that written for my youngest sister who likes fantasy but hates the cliches therein. ;-) Jeweler's Apprentice was born, and only contains one *semi_-cliche, added in during rewrites for dramatic effect. It's so slight, few people pick it out as cliche though, so that makes me happy. All the same, I still notice it. ;-) The writer is often unforgiving!
Yes, where can we see a piece of it?
The novel I'm working on now I actually started in spring 2014 and decided to do an outline, but since I hate outlining and it stifles me, it's more like an outline-draft. That way I can outline it while actually writing parts of the novel, minus most description and dialogue, and not worrying about every scene. I wanted a beginning, middle and end, so I wrote the ending first (a great suggestion I read somewhere.)
It's going to be a 2 or 3 book series, so naturally it has to end on a cliff hanger.
I put it aside for a good year or so, which has been very helpful, since it's much easier to see all the missing gaps in between the main elements. I tend to write short and then have to fill in, which I find much harder than writing too much and deleting the stuff I don't really need.