More on NaNoWriMo and Beauty's Story

I'm really enjoying writing my Beauty and the Beast retelling.  It's nice retelling a story, because I have all of these major plot points already mapped out for me, and I just have make sure to get all of them.  At the same time, I am free to add little twists, new pieces to the plot, new characters, even new settings.  The danger, of course, is that I will borrow too much from someone else's work.  And I am on my guard against that, because I have read a lot of retellings of this particular fairy tale.  But the addition of new characters, of an aunt, and a much younger sister, is changing the fabric of the story.  It's like I can see the story all mapped out, the normal progression of events and this person does this at this time and this person does this at that time, and by adding new characters, all of it changes subtly.  I can do new things, and things that I have seen other authors do are not possible for me anymore.  The original map is a little obscured, because I honestly don't know what the final affect of adding a little sister is going to be, but I know it is going to be different.  And I'm excited to see the final product.

Beauty's Story

Go check out my NaNoWriMo work in progress!

IT'S NOVEMBER!!!

And you know what that means? NaNoWriMo! and NaBloPoMo! and No-Shave November!  Wait, what?  Haha, I'm not participating in No-Shave November (though my RA is having a contest for sweetest facial, leg hair, etc at the end of the month), but I am going to try to blog every day in November.  AND I am going to try to participate in NaNoWriMo as well!  Crazy, huh?  I only decided today, and I've written 804 words already.  I'm writing a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and it's set in a kind of Howl's Moving Castle/Hayao Miyazaki kind of world, you know, technology and magic together.  I'm kind of excited about it.  I haven't tried to write a story in three or four years, so it'll be interesting to see how much my writing has matured now that I'm older.  I don't know if my Beauty and the Beast story has 50,000 words in it, but if it doesn't, I might revisit my Cinderella retelling.




Also, I have an orgo exam in an hour and a half.  But that is unimportant.