Just hit 40,000.... fingers are aching and eyes are burning. Achika, I know what you mean. I've been padding in extra writing as much as I can so I'm not stressed over thanksgiving. I had a plot crisis last week, and I nearly lost my momentum. (I did several 2,000+ days to catch up.) So I had to reevaluate a lot of points. My writing has veered from scene creation to character sketches and backstories. But it will help when I swing back around to writing it in order, from chapter to chapter. I just couldn't go on writing without ironing out the plot wrinkles. And those wrinkles were the size of moutain ranges.
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@madz, thanks so so so much! You're right on all counts with the characters. And still no names!
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I'm such a chicken! The boy will be the romantic subplot, but as with all young-adult or coming-of-age stuff, it won't feature too prominently. But it will have a nice resolution of mutual love and admiration at the end. As a kid, I would always assign relationships to characters (in books, cartoons, whatever), and I was always slightly disappointed when everybody turned out "just friends" in the end. I was shipping and I didn't even know it! So I definitely want to have a little love element that comes in at the end. It's not part of the plot at all — love is not a drive or motivation for either character, although their rivalry is — but it will be a natural by product of their mutual respect. So it's like the icing on the cake at the end!
Edited by tricksie, 24 November 2011 - 06:13 AM.