my personal progress
I’m working steadily on my NaNoWriMo novel, and here’s one thing that I think I have learned from writing Vega: I am less afraid to confront my characters with the reality of my novel’s world.
I think that I myself am always a bit reluctant to press on the reality, question it, study it harder. It’s because, basically, when I was a kid I wasn’t sure at all the world was real, so I was afraid that if I push it too hard then I might just break it and end up in a weird dream-world of no rules, and there’d be no way out of that. (I guess that’s another way of saying “I was afraid I might go crazy”).
Anyhow, my NaNoWriMo characters aren’t that way. They are risking it, they want to peek over the edge of the world even if what they see might boggle their minds, even if there really isn’t anything over the edge of the world, while I keep building frantically onward where they look.
Writing a weird and fascinating thing.
