I’m officially starting prep work for the upcoming Camp National Novel Writing Month. The novel I’m working on is currently a novella at 30k words. I’m planning on adding 60k words this July. That’s about 2k words daily. In order to do that, I’m going to need almost every planned out.
Luckily because I’ve already written the ‘main story’, it’s just a matter of adding intercepting stories and events to it. I’ve also added more characters but I’ll have to set up motivations/ wants for them and incorporate it into the story. I don’t want them to end up filling a page for the sake of the word count.
When I first wrote this novella, I hadn’t planned too much for the world. I got the basics of worldbuilding but I need to flesh it out more.
First I would need . . .
- Lore/ Worldbuilding – at least the inner workings of certain organizations, etc. that will be necessary to the novel.
- I need character motivations and how they will affect the story
- Lastly, I would need to write down the plot points. This will help me add different characters into the story without making seem like they were added last minute.
Those are what I can think of right off the top of my head. I might think of more but at least I have a faint of idea of what to work on next week.
Dabbling in the Art of Writing 