I registered for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Now that I'm basically recovered from engineering school, it's time to get back to being what I always wanted to be when I grew up, and there's nothing like meeting a 1667 word/day quota to make one really feel like a writer.
Besides, right now the lives of my imaginary friends are a lot more interesting than mine. I've decided to work on the further adventures of my Church Hill gang who have, yet again, a whole world of trouble on their hands. Because I wrote that in 2002 and finished it up in 2003, and haven't looked at it much since (what with having that whole school and near death thing to deal with), I've had to review my own story and make profiles of all the characters just so I don't change peoples' eye colors and so on.
What is really striking to me is how background details have shifted over the past couple years while these people have been messing around in my head. One character's parentage has changed completely as, in a whole separate and still unwritten storyline, the woman that I thought was going to be his mother has steadfastly refused to marry his father and instead has chosen someone else (most sensibly, I might add). Another character has turned out to be a bit more mysterious than I thought she was.
This puts me in the position of needing to make a couple little adjustments to the old story for the sake of consistency. Tiny adjustments. Nobody would notice. I probably shouldn't have said anything.
271 words | October 9, 2005 07:09 PM | Writer's block