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Omigoodness, I just got hit with a ton-o-bricks-worth of NanoWrimo inspiration. It's my '06 story about the Scouts on their backpacking trip. The trouble was how to tell 12-days worth of a story and have it build toward a climax near the end when the geography of the place demands it happen on day 5. So I used that program with the note cards to rearrange everything and now I think it's worth re-writing/revising.

Basically, day 12 (a difficult ascent up a mountain that starts before sunrise) is a recapitulation of the emotional journey that was the entire trek. So I'm going to break day 12 into different vignettes and use them to introduce chunks of the story that takes place earlier. So getting up and trying to pack up in the dark is going to lead into the ineptness and bickering of their first days together on the trail.

Awesome!

I was wondering yesterday about whether a couple of my Nanos are beyond repair... course I still need to edit last year...

So...kind of skipping ahead and then using flashbacks, basically?

I need to get back to my story. There’s a bit of rethinking involved, but mostly I just need to commit to getting it done, which I’m...not very good about doing. I need another WriMo.

In other news, I went to the trail and finished day one of the get-into-running program Jen and I did a few years back. I didn’t doubt I’d be able to finish this time around, but it wasn’t exactly a breeze either. I’m sooo out of shape. Again. At least I’m less so than I was the first time I did the program, but I’d have been mortified if I’d seen anyone who knew me. Shorts are not my friend right now...