I've written something today, but I won't have time to put it up in html format until tomorrow. I've actually written something every day so I guess I'm not really slacking off. I will probably hit the halfway point sometime tomorrow. Right now, I'm listening to the wonderfully beautiful soundtrack to Finding Neverland. The movie opens today, but I actually saw the film two months ago at a film festival. I highly recommend it--extremely sentimental, but in a good way.
As for progress, technically I'm ahead, but I feel like I'm stuck in a rut because, ahem, of my writing I have to do for school.
So I was thinking about why the Bingo Club suddenly popped into my novel. I mean, I didn't plan very much, but I never expected them to appear. Maybe it's just my subconscious desire to have fans. You know, other Nano-ers have their characters do cameos in other people's works or have other people's characters read their novel in those novels and some people even have Yahoo! fan clubs filled with people hanging to their every word and others have fans who illustrate their novels as they go along or people writing fanfics of other people's novels...
Rather depressing now that I think about it. I wish I had someone who could illustrate my stories. I would only totally mangle everything with my horrible stick figures.
I've also noticed that there are a lot of teenagers complaining about parental readership--you know, even though their parents want to read their stuff, they don't want them to because of risque scenes. Which is totally understandable. Parents don't want to believe that their kids are growing up. But writing is both harmless and subversive. There's a fine line between the two. I aim for "harmless". I'm very open about my writing habit but I don't pressure (or even ask!) anyone to read my stuff. As a result, I don't have parents, let alone anyone else, breathing down my neck, demanding to read what I'm scribbling on paper or typing on my word processor. If you act secretive or rebellious about it, people will think you're writing something bad, so of course they'll want to read it.
It's like a lot of other things. Make something forbidden and everyone will gather around like flies to honey.
