#we’re having a timeline in the 1650s and a timeline in 1905 and that’s about as much as i know right now | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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Someone on a NaNoWriMo prep thread: if you’re trying to win NaNo for the first time my advice is to pick the simplest idea

Me: yep, that seems smart. I’ll do that

Also me: *walks away from my first brainstorming session needing to research the golden age of piracy, the composition of the UK in the mid 17th century, the British navy in the mid 17th century, and the overall concept of a time loop*

#i was doing nanoprep by the book. i was like okay; i can’t pick an idea and a lot of people have said it’s easier to finish nanowrimo with #a fresh idea rather than trying to resurrect an old novel idea #because if you have a brand new fresh idea you don’t have any preconceived notions of how it should turn out #whereas if you’re working on an idea you’ve had for a WHILE you’re already way too invested #and you’ll get bogged down in making sure everything is perfect (which is NOT going to happen in one month) and you’ll get frustrated #so i was like okay. brand new idea. so i did the idea generation prompt (which is just to write down a bunch of things you like/are #interested in) and i was like ‘wait. about 6 of my favourites can probably fit perfectly together here’#they were: pirates; ancestral curse; time loops; two timelines intersecting; gothic vibes #and a tragic/bittersweet love story #so i was like okay. i can definitely do something with this #it’s not Entirely new if i have to be totally honest… i’ve been thinking about writing a pirate novel for years. but i never had a plotline #but now i have Something. i’m also using a couple of characters i’ve had for a while but honestly i wasn’t doing anything else #with august and henry. and all the other characters will be entirely new #we’re having a timeline in the 1650s and a timeline in 1905 and that’s about as much as i know right now #i’m fully expecting to open my notebook tomorrow and say ‘what the fuck’ because i’m sleep deprived and sad today so my ideas probably #aren’t half as good as i think they are. but right now i think they’re great so that’s enough for me #personal

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