So here we are with just ten days left to plan and plot...

How many of you have an idea of what your ending might be? Do any of you have your end scene sketched out? (I would love to be in that position, but am not there yet)

I'm actually planning on writing my epilogue first. I know how it ends and want to get some words on the page so I figure I may as well start there.

I'm excited to see where writing this takes me. I mentioned Saturday at the prep session that I'm very loosely basing this NaNo story off of my study abroad experience and I'm intrigued to see how I am able to change it and distance myself from real life. It should be a good challenge.I'm going to have my final scene take place 10 years after the study abroad trip to show exactly how far my character has come in her self discovery.

That's an intriguing idea! I've been thinking of coming up with the climax and resolution--but perhaps coming up with an epilogue might be a low pressure way of backing myself into the rest of the ending...

PBJ63010 wrote:I'm intrigued to see how I am able to change it and distance myself from real life. It should be a good challenge.

Writing in third person can help. So can starting with real incidents, and then letting the story mold where it goes. I do that so well, I often have issues remembering if something happened a particular way, or if I just wrote about it that way.

I'm happy to say that this year for the first time ever I have a solid ending. Which means since I have something to work towards I'm mentally prepared to not just write 50,000 words but to write the whole novel. I planned it out so my last paragraph will be identical to my first so this should be all kinds of fun.

I came up with my first and last scenes almost immediately. Now I'm rearranging ideas to connect the two.

I have an ending is down and awesome - i say - for the romantic novel - well I have the last scene down in my head - it's planed in my head. It's not going to change - I love my ending. I don't know anything else though. I don't know my character names or ages or anything - no beginning and no title. :)

For my Ya/Sci-Fi/ Fantasy - I have about 1/5 of the beginning arranged in my head - No ending and no idea what's going to happen. Clueless. But I do have 4 ofthe character names :)

Thanks for that idea. I had planned on 1st person but this really makes a lot of sense.
And that totally made me laugh,I can absolutely see myself doing the same thing.

Good luck whichever way you decide to go!

That's really cool. I love that idea as a fun way to wrap things up.

My NaNo last year was a continuation of the story from the year before (book 2) and the last scene was the same as the first scene in the first book just with more details.

I have bits and pieces of the beginning, middle, and end scenes somewhat figured out. I just need to fill in the gaping plot holes.

Oh gosh, I have no idea at this point. I need to do some serious crunching this weekend about my plot in general. Never mind the ending!

One thing I'm running into is that my plot takes a lot of elements from a livingcampaign I'm writing and running for my players. The story's been unfolding over the past year, but the novel will have to conclude it in order for it to make sense.

I get to make the hard decision to deviate the storyline, knowing whatever I end up writing from the splitting point might be drastically different in my game.