Donald ate some food that was prepared using Louise's wine that absorbed her bitterness, so he's in a coma inside her subconscious. Much of that journey is already chronicled in 10,000 words of rough draft, and it's been my goal since the start of Nanowrimo to retell that portion of the story with new purple prose and tons of padding (and, in SOME cases, copying text where I wouldn't change a word of what's already there, don't worry I'm not cheating my way to the finish line).
However, retreading old ground is boring. I could change up the events for Don (and will), but for really early in the plot, his plight is STILL boring to me. I don't want to think of getting him and Rory from the valley to the Infatuation Field. I want to bust out some new funk.
SO, since Louise blacks out after accidentally taking one of Don's "blue pills" and enters his subconscious, and for the past couple of months I've had nothing but fun and colorful ideas surrounding what sorts of things and characters would fill a male mind, my writing process has skipped ahead in the story to Louise's journey. Perhaps the added prespective will help me write each's story so that they link in a few ways. Or at least, I can write in one story until I hit a wall then switch to the other. The words I generate for Nanowrimo do not have to be linear!
Also, minor note of annoyance at discovering tonight just before 9pm that I had a big assignment due by midnight. Several hours of would-be nano sacrificed to a 10-page assignment. Why is it that I can scratch up 2,200 words in three hours for a school assignment but it's still molasses-torture just to generate 800 words in a single day? :(
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