Halfway There and Still Moving Nicely

When I say halfway I mean it both in terms of the month, but also in terms of the story. I just wrote scene number five of my ten key scenes outline.

Along with my stats, which I'm quite satisfied with, I ran across these.

First, a blog post from Pub(lishing) Crawl (which is a wonderful name) on Simple Tricks to Unstick Your Story: The Domino Effect by Susan Dennard. It's a terrific article with this key point:

Do your last few scenes (or maybe even your last 20 scenes–sometimes I have to go pretty far back to see where things begin unraveling) logically connect? Do the emotional beats progress and shift as the events and previous scenes indicate they should? Does the character’s goal shift according to his/her emotional shift?

This is a toughy. At this point I can say that mine do not. I'm afraid that will have to wait for the rewrite.

There is a little blog post here on creating believable characters. The book I read in preparation for this NaNo had me do the same thing. I might try this method cause the other didn't take. I think I quit after one.

Finally, there is 25 Turns, Pivots, and Twists to Complicate Your Story that I found on terribleminds.

All of these are helping me plod along.