Weekly Plot Help - Week of November 10th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Got a problem in your NaNo? Who doesn't?! But we've got a way to help!

Post here with your plot problems, and all through the week members of the community will scan through and see if they can help.

AKA - The best way to procrastinate is to help others!

So post your problem. Then take a moment to look at everyone else's and see if you can help them.

People helping people. That's what makes this community great :)

So have at it!

Comments

NaNooooooooooo...

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get started with NaNoWriMo untill tonight, because I was out of town away from computers or time enough to scribble it out either. :P So here I am, ideas in my head, and a strong theme and general plotline, and most everything I need to play catch-up...

...EXCEPT...

I can't think of a main/motivating reason for my Main Character. (augh!) He is running, scared or emotionally driven or emotionally upset... Driving out into the near-wilderness to seek out a relative's very isolated, and currently uninhabited Estate.

Why?

Did he kill his GF? That seems SO patheticly over-used. What other reasons can he HAVE, that he is so desperate to get to a place he hasn't been to in forever, and no one else goes to, that is SO far away...? The 'I have a body in the trunk' thing feels fakey to me.

Help? Whyfor is he driven to flee there? Did he DO something? Did someone do something to HIM? What would make a person so disoriented and yet so driven?

Ideas?

Re: NaNooooooooooo...

[ahavah]

How about there is no good reason. We slowly watch his decline into paranoia and only realize later that there's really nothing going on with him except in his head?

Re: NaNooooooooooo...

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Ahavah has a great idea. I'd go for it! :D

Re: NaNooooooooooo...

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

Wow... considering that we find out at the end of the story that he's been Dead all along... that's INCREDIBLY creepy. It would leave the readers fishing for what he DID... and less interested in details that might betray his condition. (cackles evilly) Oh M'Gawd, I think you're onto something big there!

THANKS!!

Re: NaNooooooooooo...

[ahavah]

Quite a pleasure. I think that actually works out even better, because I hear being dead can fuck your shit up.

Re: NaNooooooooooo...

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Hee. THIS.