On Friday, my class hit the "plot rollercoaster" pages of their NaNo workbooks. As we discussed plots, inciting incidents, rising action, climax and falling action, they started to get the "oh-oh's" the sound kids make when they raise hands and can barely contain a thought or question. I heard the first couple of "this-is-funs" and today I am excited to be putting up our word count poster, assigning word count contracts and getting the final push towards the starting line next Monday morning.
I'm mid-planning on two works for myself--a total of 100,000 words. One is a youth novel and the other a mainstream fiction written in magic realism, my favorite genre. Today, Scrivener debuts the beta version for Windows. And, I am anxious to download it to play tonight. My charts and graphs are creating a grand clutter of notebook, loose binder paper pages, and assorted napkins. Its an organizational explosion I don't dare show my students who I'm insisting keep a quite neat binder with pockets and spaces to keep all their goodies in one tidy place.
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