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Aug. 19th, 2024 09:07 pmWe're getting to meet granddaughter on Wednesday <3 Younger grandson will be in nursery but it'll be quite nice to meet the baby on her own.
Managed to cajole my brain into doing some actual work today. I just need to get through this week, have a week of complete chill-out - then jump into September with both feet!
I made a start on my nano planning using the 'snowflake' method. I've already got a dozen characters - two main, one not quite main but more than secondary, and 9 secondary. Then there'll be the 'big bad' who'll be not quite secondary but more than incidental. And then... who knows how many incidental. I also want to work out just how many plot threads there are, and which is actually the main one. Because solving the main crime is NOT the main plot. Patel's 'coming of age' is. I think... It's also going to echo Sense & Sensibility by being ABOUT Patel but told from Harding's POV. S&S confused me for years because I couldn't work out who the heroine was. Then I saw a video on YouTube about stories that are about one character but told from the POV of another and the penny dropped - there's a technical term for it, I'm sure! Then there's also Harding and Selena's 'romance' but it's more a 'getting each other out of the system' thing. The real romance is Selena's daughter and Harding's ex's stepson, which will sort of go on in the background where it'll hardly be noticed :D
Yeah - it's complicated and I don't know how much justice I'll be able to do all of that in a nano.
Played an hour of ISS - just running around spray painting and drug busting. Did a showdown in one area. Next time, I will do the next story thing!
And watched an episode of Umbrella Academy. It's bonkers, really - but I find myself caught up in it. Psych was a different kind of bonkers and I just enjoyed the ride. UA has so much going on. Each character has their own story-arc - then there are combinations of different characters - and then the 'umbrella' arc of Saving The World. Again... And I thought my nano was complicated!
Right, time for bed. I've got an earlyish meeting tomorrow.
Managed to cajole my brain into doing some actual work today. I just need to get through this week, have a week of complete chill-out - then jump into September with both feet!
I made a start on my nano planning using the 'snowflake' method. I've already got a dozen characters - two main, one not quite main but more than secondary, and 9 secondary. Then there'll be the 'big bad' who'll be not quite secondary but more than incidental. And then... who knows how many incidental. I also want to work out just how many plot threads there are, and which is actually the main one. Because solving the main crime is NOT the main plot. Patel's 'coming of age' is. I think... It's also going to echo Sense & Sensibility by being ABOUT Patel but told from Harding's POV. S&S confused me for years because I couldn't work out who the heroine was. Then I saw a video on YouTube about stories that are about one character but told from the POV of another and the penny dropped - there's a technical term for it, I'm sure! Then there's also Harding and Selena's 'romance' but it's more a 'getting each other out of the system' thing. The real romance is Selena's daughter and Harding's ex's stepson, which will sort of go on in the background where it'll hardly be noticed :D
Yeah - it's complicated and I don't know how much justice I'll be able to do all of that in a nano.
Played an hour of ISS - just running around spray painting and drug busting. Did a showdown in one area. Next time, I will do the next story thing!
And watched an episode of Umbrella Academy. It's bonkers, really - but I find myself caught up in it. Psych was a different kind of bonkers and I just enjoyed the ride. UA has so much going on. Each character has their own story-arc - then there are combinations of different characters - and then the 'umbrella' arc of Saving The World. Again... And I thought my nano was complicated!
Right, time for bed. I've got an earlyish meeting tomorrow.
