Today I went shopping for all things family T-day-ish. Came home, set up the small turkey I’d gotten for myself and cooked it. Later on I cooked a couple sweet potatoes and a pan of white potatoes and it turned out that the turkey wasn’t really done yet so I had a pretty much veggie pre-T-day dinner. But that was fine. In between all that, I just kept pecking away at the #NaNoWriMo story.
It’s an odd thing about characters, but sometimes they do things you, as the writer, aren’t really expecting. So, sometimes you’re left surprised. At least I am. Like “huh, I didn’t expect it to go this direction.
A few times this month though, the protagonist Matt has just done or said stuff that made me laugh. I hope a reader would laugh too, but I laugh. I wouldn’t have really thought I’d be able to write anything laugh-inducing but what can I say – turns out Matt can be a pretty funny guy. And the last scene I wrote had some silliness in it. The people who knew what was going on went with it, the people who didn’t dealt with it. One didn’t know what was going on, but recognized that silliness is a good thing. Bingo.
It struck me today that the answer to my question of “how will it be when Matt is secure in who he is” may include the ability to be silly and impulsive. So tomorrow, onward and upward.
