What do you do when you're already WAY too far behind on your NaNo manuscript and you're wondering why you're so full of the worst kind of suckiness but you're still trying to muddle through because by golly, you WILL make 50,000 words by November 30 if it KILLS you(which it might)and all of a sudden you think to yourself: 'If I had written this in first person, everything would make sense and I could do this exactly the way I had it planned in my head'.
Here's what you do: you smack yourself in the face with your hand and possibly any objects lying around that won't do any lasting damage to your face because you're newly single and who wants to date a chick who has an imprint of a stapler across her forehead, right?
Because I can't possibly go back and change everything into first person because I'm just that far behind so it would be stupid and that's what revisions are for AFTER you finish the first draft. Right?
So my question is: would you continue writing in third person simply because that's how you started or would you switch to first person because it's just RIGHT and you know you won't have to muddle through to the end anymore, it will just happen because it's meant to be that way?
WHAT, MY WRITING FRIENDS, SHOULD I DO???
And is anyone else having a nervous breakdown about NaNo? Seriously.
For Nano I say go for it, switch to the way of writing you think you'll end up using. It's Nano, you're just working on getting it down on paper!
ReplyDeleteAs a panster my story at the beginning never matches the end!!! That's just part of the growth!
Hope that helps!!