Re: NaNoWriMo

On Apr 5, 6:06 pm, serenebabe <sereneb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Should it start at the end,

Why not?

go back, move all around, be a dazed
confusion of time,

Why not? But you might confuse your reader if not done well.

begin at the beginning

Not always a good idea. Depending on the genre, you need to get the
corpse on the floor in the first few pages, or the hero return to the
village, or the crisis must happen, or otherwise leave a reader
wanting to turn the page. (Unless you're writing a phone book.)

how can I avoid the "happy ending," how in the hell will
it end?,

I never know how my stuff will end. If I knew, I think I might
completely lose the motivation to write. Since I didn't know, I'd come
back to the computer each day wondering what my characters had been up
to while I was working or sleeping. My dinosaur brain is a much better
storyteller than I am.

When I wrote 'Anne the Healer', I wrote 2000 words past the ending
before I realized where the ending was supposed to be. Not all the
loose ends had been tied up, but most did not need to be.

Dig in and start. If you're lucky, within a few days the story will
start to write itself. Don't think your way out of it. A story is like
dough; if you knead it too much, it turns crumbly.

DB
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