October Novel Prep Challenge

How do you all feel about what you've accomplished with the calendar as your guide? Have you figured out where your story is going to go? Are you more lost than you were when you started?

The Prep is a great way to put on "paper" your idea, premise, theme. This may be the hardest part of writing I have ever done. What is it I'm trying to say? What do I want people to know or learn about my story?

I've done this before. Once I started the process and after talking to my writing group as well as a workshop group I gave up. Because I couldn't tell them what the premise/theme was. What did my MC hope to learn? gain? grow? change? It took me a year or more to figure out. I had a great story and it was all there, I just didn't know it. I gave up.

When I wrote my 50K about a story I'd heard, I didn't bother asking all those questions. I had an idea, I knew where it was going to end and I just had to get it down. I completed the NaNo, a couple months later wrote the next 50k and the next year it was published.

Don't be afraid to ask for help, Don't be pressured in to filling out a daily requirement when you don't know that part of the story yet. Write what you do know. A conflict, another Character. If you can't revise your outline for the 4th time. Don't.

Thoughts?

          Tina