more NaNo-babble

[lesyeuxverts]

Eeep! It's winter already ... I need a hat, and possibly to give in and switch to my winter coat. I'm such a baby. :(

I've discovered a new character in my NaNo ... Anoinette's ex-bf, he's the occultist. I like him rather a lot already.





So, these are the leaves I was talking about. I'm clearly not a botanist but they look rather like the pic of locust leaves that Mord showed me. Are they from a locust? Who ever knew that tree identification was so confusing?

Also, how long does it take for a human body (female) to decompose? I assume it makes a difference if she had been buried in a coffin/buried in the earth/left in the river (where she drowned)? ...I know it's a really weird question, and I do not need gruesome details, just a general time scale, i.e. years/decades/centuries.



*snuggles you all, because y'all are fabulous*

Comments

[gin_tonic.insanejournal.com]

You have a murder in your story? :O *jealous* Sadly enough I have no clue about decomposing. XD
I fear my whole story sucks. Okay, not the whole, but the last few thousand words. Not that I'm going to delete them. I am still 15,000 words away from the goal, still don't know what to write.
One of the characters is too nice and normal, but I don't want to make him a control freak (which would kinda fit), because he's with another character, who just deserves a good and nice boyfriend.
Waaaah.

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

*hugs* I totally hear you ... I've been convinced that mine sucked for the past week or more. I think that it's normal, but then again, on the other hand ...

Well, perhaps you can do something other than making him a control freak? He could have, I don't know ...something weird&quirky that was not control-freak-ish. He might refuse to eat anything other than eggs for breakfast, or believe that horseback riding is the One True Way to Salvation, or sekretly go around helping little old ladies carry their groceries to their cars - without letting anyone know that he's done it, because he's afraid of being nice.

Okay, ideas are probably useless since I know nothing about this character, but there you go! My pre-caffeine thoughts! Don't you feel blessed? haha :)

When I was stuck and unhappy, I caved and started an outline for the remaining plot. So far, it's helping, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm not following it very well, so it might also just get me into trouble. :)

[gin_tonic.insanejournal.com]

I feel very blessed! :D
Hmm, he could very well be afraid of being nice. I already invented a family history for him that might be interesting, but since they are on holiday I can't very well let any of them appear. Not even a sister that he didn't know of before. ... Though someone could call him and ... I don't know ... XD
Maybe I should drink a cup of coffee. Or several and then wait what will happen. I already pity my poor family. *cackles evilly*