NaNoWriMo: Has he decided what to write yet?
I really need to do that, don't I? The one crazy thing about NaNoWriMo is that, while you can't start writing your novel until midnight, November 1, you can do all the planning you like. Write an outline, take notes, write character descriptions, and so on.
But here I am, having decided to do this just a week ahead of time, and I don't have any of that preplanning done. In some ways, I think this is a good thing. I tend to over-plan, and I'm afraid that the planning process would actually discourage me from writing. As writing day approaches, I'd get worried that I'm not adequately prepared, and I'd end up quitting before I ever started the writing.
So in some ways, I'm blocking this out of my mind… I'm putting off all the heavy lifting until November 1, because the whole point of this (for me) is to dive into the hard part with guns blazing. The hard part is getting started, and a "soft start" of doing pre-planning when the schedule is squishy just gives me time to waffle and think too much. And thinking about it is the killer.
But it's Friday, writing starts on Sunday. That "9-year-old stowaway on an interstellar freighter" actually has some legs, now that I've had time to think about the plot.