I’m a rebellious autumn fairy today. I don’t like it when people try to force me to put a nice little label on others or on myself. When I checked my RL Facebook this morning, there was a post in the NaNoWriMo group about “testing” your characters to make sure they fit specific labels to include women. Problem is it left half the population out, plus most of the LGBTQ+ population. Why should I force labels on my characters when I’m writing my story? It limits my creativity and piles a shit-ton of pressure on an already stressful month trying to meet the challenge.
NaNoWriMo and Me
In case people don’t know what NaNoWriMo is: It is National Novel Writing Month that happens every year in November. The challenge is to write 50,000 words in a 30-day period. It may sound like it’s not a reachable goal, but it is… I have broken up my story into 2000 to 2500 words per day with days I’ll take breaks from writing on. I figured that if I block out my time now, it’ll be easier to make the goal. Forcing tropes into my story that doesn’t fit, just to please people, will just make my story flat. This is my story. I’ll write it how I want to write it and to hell with any Bechdel test or whatever other so-called tests people want to force on others.
On an upside, I’m so excited to take part in NaNoWriMo this year. I started writing a story a few months ago but never got past the start of it. It’s not a bad story but I’ve been ill off and on the last few months, but now that I’m through that, I’m digging out my plot and fleshing it out for the challenge. I chose the updated fairy tale trope and my favorite story: Beauty and the Beast. Only I’ve flipped it so that the updated fairy tale trope on its head and made it the opposite of the traditional fairy tale. Anyway, wish me luck and knock on wood… Have a great day, Adventurites! ~ LA
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