Ramblings of a Samurai and his Duct Tape

Writer's block, smashed!

I think I figured out why I was having so much trouble with my Nano novel. I had started at the wrong point! I jumped ahead in chronological order and started telling the story from a different point, and found it much better. I've still been writing in chronological order according to my protagonist, (not even close to chronological according o my story timeline... time travel and all) and but found a much better point to start the story. I won't have to throw out everything I wrote so far, going to use a good portion of what I've already written in flashbacks, but I've got a better angle into it.


I don't know how much sense I'm making now, because my head and eyes are telling me to get off this damn comp and get in bed. That's why I stopped writing my novel when I got to the point I'm going to put in the first of the flash backs. I think at least... I don't really know anymore.


About the only thing I can say for sure, was when I started writing I knew my beginning was extremely crappy and I was going to have to nearly completely rewrite the first chapter. Go ahead and look at how crappy it is if you want to I'll wait.

Elemental: The Power Within  (13+) This is the beginning of my 2010 Nano Novel. Still drafting so be kind #1721864 by Ducttape Knight

No I won't. I'm going to bed. But feel free to read the original crap anyways, lol. I at least got something down before to get me started, and have broken through this last weeks blockage. Maybe I can make some progress and start to get caught up before I have to work tomorrow night. I'm currently about 6000 words short of where I need to be to win NaNoWriMo