This is hard to explain in a Title...

[abbigail-cross.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's my questiopn: Can you (or me, whoever) can we write scenes. Like, a whole bunch of interrelated scenes, sketching a novel, I guess. I'm good with individual scenes. Not so much with "the big picture". I'm just thinking, if no one really knows what you write, they can't really judge you. And, at editing time, or if NaNo is still on, I could connect hem into the big picture...?

I honestly don't know if that made sense, but... This is my first NaNo, and I'm kinda iffy about participating. School is going to get the way ALOT, and I won't have computer access at school, so I couldn't directly work on it. That's where the scene idea came from.

-Abbi

Comments

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Of course.

From the FAQ: How do you define "novel"?: We define a novel as "a lengthy work of fiction." Beyond that, we let you decide whether what you're writing falls under the heading of "novel." In short: If you believe you're writing a novel, we believe you're writing a novel too.

[perfectinpart.livejournal.com]

You can write whatever you want as long as it's written after November 1st. If you wanted to write a bunch of scenes and then connect them together somehow, that's just fine as long as it isn't written before November.

I've heard of some people even writing out of order. Writing the ending before the beginning, etc.

[miss-c-twist.livejournal.com]

If it's of any reassurance I'm sketching out he plot and story for a graphic novel so I'll have "Scenes" with actual paragraphs and other sections will be comic script style as per my needs. At the end I think it's more what you're aiming for that is important...

Graphic novel... I'm insane, but anyhow....

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can. No one says the text has to be in order, while you're writing. There can be gaps all over the place. There can even be scenes that , looked at afterward, don't fit in the novel at all (after all, removing them would be editing -- and they still count towards your word count).

If you just write scenes, intending to possibly connect them later, that's OK. Later might even be after November, though of course you can't count words written after November in the word count.

[tarastone.livejournal.com]

I don't see a problem with that. Actually, I'm not sure I see how that would be different from writing a novel. Aren't all novels made up of scenes anyway?