the march

Once I had finally emerged from my warm bed, woke up and set the mood with candles (dangerous, I know), I finally looked over the work I had created the night before.  My plan for today was to convert my poorly written first-person text into my preferred third-person narrative.

Then I realized a new problem.

Immediately I discovered that by converting everything back into third person, I began to a lose a lot of the wonderful perspective I had created through my character's eyes.  It wasn't as simple as changing a few 'I' and 'my' into 'he' and 'his'.

So, I made a deal with myself.  I decided to persevere and continue with my first-person challenge and tell the story from inside Theodore's shoes. But only for an exchange.  I allowed myself to re-write the short bit of dialogue that fell on the bottom half of the second page.

Now perhaps I will regret this decision later on, but this process is meant to challenge me and after having successfully completed NaNoWriMo on three separate occasions, I think I need to be challenged once again.

End of day 1:
3,096 / 60,000 (5.15%)