The Dragon's Lair

It's been raining, and when it rains there's a chance the Internet gets screwed up. Why? I don't know, that's just the way it is. But today, instead of the Internet, it's the phones going buggy, with the Internet working just fine. This is odd, because usually, when the phones don't work, the Internet doesn't work. The phone keeps flashing "in use" and when I pick it up, I hear absolutely nothing. But the Internet is running like nothing's happened. Man, I hope no one needed to call for any emergency purpose :/

NaNo's moving along and lately I've been thinking a lot about whether or not I like this push-forward, fast-paced writing. Keeping up the word counts can be a little overwhelming at times but for the most part that's overshadowed by the fact that I'm getting words down. Every day. I've accomplished more in a week with my NaNo story than I have in a month with my other original story. The really ironic thing, though is that this is the first time I've bowed to a writing goal. Normally, I suck at goals, my stubborn side always fighting against them. But not with NaNo. Now if I can only harness this motivation after November, because I can totally see myself setting my story aside to the point that it never gets finished until four months later (and I'll have to set it aside at least for a little while as I have other projects on the table that will need attending to).

Not filtered since I don't really say anything about my story that would give it away.

Writing multiple characters is scary. So, I did a little research, found here, here and here for anyone who is interested. They had some excellent advice on how to handle multiple characters.

One of my biggest problems with writing multiple characters is I always feel the need to give each character equal "screen time" so to speak. I want each character to have an equal amount of POV time, as I feel that's how you make each character important to the story. And, as a result, I always trip up and am unable to move forward.

The articles I found touched on this and how characters don't need equal POV time to be important. They also talked about the importance of having a "main character," someone to focus on so that your story doesn't feel like it's all over the place. And that the fewer "main characters" you have, the better. This makes me feel slightly better since I do have two focus characters. But I'm still having issues with wanting to give everyone equal POV time. This makes me nervous since I have several story ideas that have multiple characters.

It's also odd since there was a time I used to feel comfortable writing multiple characters, when I didn't worry about giving each character equal screen time. I just wrote according to what felt right. I wish I could get that mindset back. I'm now hoping my NaNo story will help retrain me on handling multiple characters without getting caught up in trying to write everyone's POV.