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What is your main character's favorite food?
I have no idea. Every year, the only character development I do on my characters is about a paragraph, at best. I do not write pages and pages about their back story, least of all any trivial preferences like food. However, my characters always do manage to eat well. I do not think this year will be an exception since one of my secondary characters will be an excellent baker.
NaNoWriMo Survival Kit - what's in yours?
I posted a list to the NaNoWriMo Emergency Kit here last year. I do not have it with me this year. But I do have plenty of notebooks and pens. I should probably buy some more tea and hot chocolate the next time I go grocery shopping.
NaNo Food, What are your plans?
Wasabi peas. Enough said.
How many words a day?
I do not have a quota that I aim for each day. I just write as much as I can and to write every day. Sometimes it's a lot, sometimes not so much, but it balances out.
Where do you find your muses?
I do not have a muse. If I think something is interesting, I will jot it down in my writing notebook and possibly use it later. Perhaps this is a self-centered thing to say, but I like crediting myself with coming up with the idea and not some personified idea-generating subconscious.
Where do you fit writing in?
An hour in the morning, an hour in the evening, and any other time when I don't have to do anything terribly important.
What's on your dustjacket?
Probably something about a burned out actress going to an island and thinking that it's supposed to be a relaxing vacation when people get murdered and the rest of the islanders start acting stranger and stranger.
I haven't worked it all out yet. I'm still doing my outline.
Prewriting tools?
Last year, I tried out Rough Draft (a word processor) for doing my outlines and keeping up with my notes. It was okay, but I think my cheapo composition book is still my best bet. It's more portable than my laptop and doesn't require batteries.
I also started writing the major things about my story on a white board. I might start posting a picture of my white board and scans of my notes later in the month--if I get around to it.
When to write extras?
Like long acknowledgements, footnotes, wordy chapter titles, song lyrics, an index, and language guides (if you're writing high fantasy or sci-fi of an alien culture)?
No, I don't use any of those. I just write the novel.
