As in, the beginning of day three. I have 3383 words currently, most of that done on day 1 but not much done on day 2, since I had a massive poetry project due. The plot has also completely changed, as is wont to happen with me. Instead of my insane Christmas plot (not thrown away, but put in storage) I have finally decided to do my reappropriation of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.
Our heroine is not really the typical princess of Disney's fairy tales-- instead, she is a sullen teenager who attends public school (where no one knows she is a princess, as it is in a neighboring country) and has an antagonistic relationship with her betrothed prince (who doesn't know he is her betrothed). At this point, I'm not quite sure where this is going except that Rosie, our princess, is very rebellious-- only, the people in her country don't quite give her the reaction she wants, instead finding it adorable, or cute-- and so the climax will (read: should) come with the pricking of her finger on the spindle, thus fulfilling the curse, being purposeful and her ultimate act of rebellion.
This is the plan, anyway. We all know that with NaNoWriMo things don't usually turn out the way they are planned.
I'll leave you with this. Every time I work on a new project, I tend to make a playlist of songs reminiscent of things or people involved in that novel to help me along while I'm writing. This year's is coming slowly, but I can already tell you Rosie has a theme song-- "Hot Mess", by Cobra Starship. Oh yeah. Download it. Listen to it. Love it.
That is a really great idea. I love Sleeping Beauty; it's one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteAre you planning to post stats to the NaNo site and things?
What sort of stats do you mean? If you're talking word count, I'm definitely posting-- I'm purplesocks on the forums, although I have not been doing nearly as much posting there this year as I have in previous years, thanks to school taking up most of my free time!
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