Pre-Paring for NaNoWriMo

I just went over what my game plan is for the upcoming weeks. I now what to formally write down what writing experiments I am going to do over the next week. I am starting with the two I have already completed come up with more and post them next week.

Saturday "So Experiment" -completed 1014 words
Sunday "Just Experiment" - completed 1182 words
Monday "And Experiment"
Tuesday "Kids Story Experiment" Cloud Story
Wednesday "My Great Grandmother's House"
Thursday "I Already Know"
Friday "So Long, Farewell, Adieu"
Saturday "My Grandfather"
Sunday "Such a Long Drive"


The first three writing topics were taken in part from a website I ran across on Saturday. I am so sorry but I can't remember or locate it on my computer. The basic idea for So, Just, and And are these words don't imply anything. you start with that word and go from there. A little different than the sentence starting exercises...which will be I Already Know and Such a Long Drive. My Great Grandmother's House and So, Long Farewell, Adieu were taken from Room to Write by Bonni Goldberg. And finally, my kids story is going to be based on a conversation I had today with my 7 year old as we were sitting on our front porch watching the rain fall while she was eating a bologna sandwich.

Results so far. "So" started out as an writing exercise in an argument. A new boyfriend and girlfriend get in an argument for the first time. The story opens, "So, is this the way it is going to be?" The main argument is over but they are simmering through the calming down phase. It winds up that the real fireworks happened at her parent's home and the man in the story got into political disagreement with her father. To be honest at the end of 45 minutes I was at 992 words but finished the thought I had started and ended at 1014. I'm not posting it because it really isn't finished. It was a timed writing session.

"Just" is from the point of view of the main scientist that is heading the group that is responsible for my main character in the novel I plan to write for NaNoWriMo. He will not be a character in my story. However, having his point of view is interesting and is giving me some good ideas on what he foresaw her possibilities to be. It was written as if it were a letter to an unnamed person or possibly a journal/diary entry. I breezed through this one. And came up with a "how" I was wondering about as I have thought about my main character.

Tomorrow I am onto And. Wish me luck.