Signposting
M'Appari from Martha by Flotow
I’m more than halfway through in terms of words, but getting sloppy in my efforts to sustain the word output. I wrote half a chapter from the point of view of my main character in the first person, when I suddenly remembered that her chapters are in the third person. I still like the direction where the story is going, but I’m going to have to make some decisions soon about how to pull everything together. I seem to remember that this was a problem I had last year. At the moment, the manuscript reads like two disparate novels and #obvs, one of the characters in the historical part will transpire to be one of those in the contemporary part. How many clues should the author give? I don’t want one of those “Well, I saw that coming from page four” moments, but on the other hand, I don’t want the reader to say “Eh, where did that come from?”. But hey, that’s the fun of NaNo – at least I can say I’ve written nearly 30k words, which is more than some people write in a lifetime.
