Word Count: 7222
Mood: Harried
This week, I've been kept pretty busy with TPA stuff and designing materials for each day of lessons at my school site, but I have been able to make some good discoveries about the world in which my story is set. After researching and reading columns from NaNoWriMo (here and here), I have made some significant strides toward fleshing out the world in which my story takes place. It’s been really helpful to me to think my way through making sure the setting for my story really feels alive and moving.
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Mood: Harried
This week, I've been kept pretty busy with TPA stuff and designing materials for each day of lessons at my school site, but I have been able to make some good discoveries about the world in which my story is set. After researching and reading columns from NaNoWriMo (here and here), I have made some significant strides toward fleshing out the world in which my story takes place. It’s been really helpful to me to think my way through making sure the setting for my story really feels alive and moving.
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This exercise calls for writers to think about recent history, both in ways that directly affects the story and in ways disconnected from it. To further my previous efforts to deepen my characters, I wrote brief passages detailing how some of my characters interpreted these events and how their opinions might have differed, which allowed me to develop both the depth of my setting and the well-roundedness of my main characters.
Moving into week four, I hope to take this knowledge, go back over what I have, and get back to advancing my core narrative. Having taken time off to focus mainly on deepening my characters and setting, I have a lot of additional ideas for aspects of the story. Moving forward, I will be focusing on bringing some of these ideas into reality.
Moving into week four, I hope to take this knowledge, go back over what I have, and get back to advancing my core narrative. Having taken time off to focus mainly on deepening my characters and setting, I have a lot of additional ideas for aspects of the story. Moving forward, I will be focusing on bringing some of these ideas into reality.