Nanowrimo Day 1

[alicia_h]

1742 words. :-)

863 words at the cafe during the write-in and the rest at home tonight. Don't ask me how I managed it because I'm not entirely sure myself. I had about an hour's faffing about not knowing what to write before both bouts of writing.

The story is another go at the one I tried to write for my first nano. It's gone from third person in the old version to first in the version and from being past tense to at least partly in present tense. The opening scene(s) that I wrote today take place after the point that in my vague plan was the end of the story.

Roll on day 2 (but after some sleep because I'm knackered!)

Comments

[wytchcroft]

good luck! <3

[wytchcroft]

just to say; i finally tracked down a 1967-8 edition of Hamlet and it's interesting for the contemporary essay descriptions of the mother as 'sensual' and Ophelia as bewildered etc. but most of all for the pre-feminist assertion that shakespeare gives the female characters have much less inner life than the male...

i do think the nicol williams/tony richardson version was influenced by this both in the choice of charismatic players (inner life without recourse to script) for ophelia and gertrude and the emphasis in direction which solidly favours the men.
the edition questions the validity of then fashionable freudian analysis of hamlet (esp concerning gertrude) and, again, the movie would seem to follow suit, the scenes between hamlet and his mum being noticeably restrained.

but enough of my waffle...

[wytchcroft]

look at this! clearly some minds think alike...
http://sarahkbell.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/holmes-hamlet-disinformation-theatrics-and-other-parallels/