October 16, 2007

I have determined how I will spend the remainder of the month in order to meet my checkpoint. Most of the story ahs been figured out; now, it's just a matter of writing it and putting it all in order. I made a Google calendar for NaNo. So far, all I have on it is word count goals. I filled in everything I could think of on my general calendar for November, because I plan to miss to A-days, and togther, that's 9,000 words to make up. Unfortuantely, it looks like there is only 1 weekend in Novermber when I'll be able to write, and that's the first one. My officail goal for then in 10,000 words, which is typical for NaNo, but I might be able to push out 5,000 each day. I'm going to have to really do all my college stuff then, too, so I don't know.

Some new elements I came up with today:

• The girl's first name will be Alethia, and she will go by her middle name. Thus, I can flash back to people not being able to pronounce her name/wondering who she is on the first day of school.
• Yunkie majored in classical studies, or somethign the like. This links up with Alethia, and it's something that interests me, and it will provide filler- he can retell Greek myths and random stuff.
• Something I'm considering- a vingette about the boy and her brother lying ont he roof of their grandmother's house in ithaca, and girl doesn't like that she can't see the stars. Boy doesn't care. Maybe.
• A dream about dancing muffins.
• I think I might move the whole thing to a small town in Pennsylavnai. Maybe they can stop at a small town in Upstate New York, or in Ithaca. Maybe her dad went to Cornell. But I'm afraid to write about thigns that I don't know, and I do know a little more about Pennsylvania. I can just have them shoot up 83, or whatever.

And now, this is how I will use the rest of my time in October. Because I have the plot mostly figured out, I'm down to research now. These are thigns I need to do.

• Talk to my dad about his high school gymnastics experiences. This will also serve as make-up work for when I was out, since I will have to do it outside of school.
• Information about Greek Diner owners. Would they even have corn muffins? Maybe they stop somewhere else and get corn muffins. Anyway, I need to find out about this sort of thing.
• Girl Scout Handbook. I want this girl to be a scout. especially because I have personal experience with that. I think I have a junior handbook, but I think I also need her to be a little older than 11.
• Maps. Maps, maps, maps. I need to plan this road trip.
• Of course, I need to look up more mythological stuff. I'm by no means an expert. I might go ahead and start woking on some of it today.

Between all this stuff, I should be able to fill up my time, and eventually, my event details on the google calendar, to meet my checkpoint.

I am a little concerned about Misentity. I'll say that. I think I'll be doing a lot of Misentity work in homeroom, because November is the month when I need to be typing constantly, especially since I'll have so little weekend time to make up for word-count lapses.