Plot synopsis

In the last two days I’ve managed to get six thousand words towards my 50 000 word goal. As Brian points out – this puts me at 12% done in the first two days which is somewhat heartening when I’ve still got 44,0000 words to churn before the end of the month. Lucky me, today was a flex and Nanowrimo started on a Sunday this year, which has allowed me to get a jump start knowing that there will be days in the month where I will be able to write very little.

Now, I’m not saying that these are 6000 really great words that I will keep in some future incarnation of this project – but on the other hand, my characters are already doing things on their own that I haven’t previously mapped out. And I always love it when that happens. It’s as though the story is already out there in the ether and my task is to pull it into some coherent order on the page. Not a simple task, but I’m detached from it on some level. My characters simply do things and I’ve got to record it with the best possible language. Hard to explain and after 3000 words today I’m a little written-out.

Rough plot synopsis here:

“Frances Eberhardt lives in her small community of White Bay, BC as a woman on the margins of belonging. Instead of shutting herself up forever when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she forges ahead to build her own home by hand and the first store in her isolated community. Despite the difficulties of the Great Depression and the advances of an unscrupulous lover she never loses sight of the life she wants. Told through a series of letters, flashbacks, conversations and points of view, the story of Frances Eberhardt is partially-inspired by true events in an unnamed BC town. “