Well hello everyone, it's week three of
NaNoWriMo and I hope to get caught up
this week, so, let's see how I do.
All right everyone I'm gonna be honest,
it was a pretty crazy week and I got a
fair amount of writing done but I didn't
end up getting a whole lot of footage of
me writing. so, I'm just gonna put my word
counts for each day on the screen and
then I wanted to share something with
you guys that I used to help plot the
supporting character's romance in the
book, because when I got to her point of
view at the end of this week I didn't
really know what to do for her romance.
Like I knew some of the stuff that was
gonna happen already, but I needed to
like build a romance and like a reason
from the break-up since this would have
happened before the events of my book
taking place. So, what I decided to do was
look at romances and see the common
points that they had, and there was a
video I found that was really helpful on
this that I'll link in the description
below, as well, but basically, it treated
romance as if it were like a math or a
science or something like an equation
basically and so you would take you know
like every romance, like the generic
romance plot has like the three main
points, you know, the one point where they
meet, which we'll represent with N and
then the point where they mutually fall
in love, which will represent with L, and
I have to stress the - mutual - part
they both have to love each other for
that part to be achieved really, and then
the happily ever after, right, which we'll
represent with an H, and so basically,
what you do is you have this basic
formula of, they meet, they mutually fall
in love, and then they have a Happily ever
after. So to make an interesting romance
plotline out of that, what you would do
is then add conflicts or struggles
represented by a C or an S,
respectively, in between those points to
try to complicate that plotline, but then
the thing you can do to make it even
more interesting,
you can omit one of the three main
points that we mentioned earlier, and you
know, for an example, what I decided to do
was have the characters meet then not
fall in love immediately. So, the struggle
is them falling mutually in love
because I don't think she would like him
at first, to be honest
and then when they mutually fall in love
they'll be a conflict that drives them
apart, and then I'm going to omit the
happily ever after part, because I needed
them to break up before book 1. So I hope
that that kind of all makes sense and is
helpful to you guys, I don't know, like, I
wouldn't recommend this if you're gonna
like write a romance novel or anything,
but it helped me kind of like just get
started, and have like the basic idea of
how the relationship would work out, and
how I could write that like you boil
down to like key points. so, that's
helped me right now, you know, in this
moment when I need to be fast drafting
for NaNoWriMo to catch up. All the
writing has been going well so far i as
I said finished my main characters point
of view at 5,000 words and her love
interest is coming up on his twenty
thousand mark writing out her love
interest backstory has actually helped
me a lot in exploring why they're in
love and how he acts as a person. It also
helped me figure out the kinds of words
he would use can like in his thoughts
compared to the words she would use, so,
it's been really helpful in that sense,
and also it's helped me get a greater
understanding of him as a character and
so I think I'll be able to write scenes
where his reactions are more pivotal a
lot easier than I did before.
Well here we find ourselves at the end
of week three of camp NaNoWriMo and
while we're still not quite caught up
we're not too far behind either. So, next
week is the final stretch so I hope you
tune in to see if I can catch up then! I
hope you guys liked this vlog and I'll
see you next time!
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