Camp NaNoWriMo: Third Update

There's a topic over at the NaNoWriMo boards called "How do you know you're writing lit fic?"My answer? When someone asks what your story is about and you mumble something about semiotics. (Well it worked for Jeffrey Eugenides and The Marriage Plot.) I hate the phrase "literary fiction." Correction: I don't hate it. It's what I read, it's what I aspire to write. But if you want to sound like an elitist ass, tell them you write lit fic.

So I usually say "mainstream fiction" or "realistic fiction." What I write is grounded in reality, even  when my characters are generally horrible people, so it's accurate, at least. I want to finish my 50,000 word goal by next week so I can sort through this mess already.

I'm loosely using the method that I linked to yesterday, making a sort of "skeleton draft." I have quite a few long passages of "he said, she said, he did this, she did that" that makes for boring reading, but it is an easy way to bang out a fast first draft. Pretty language can come later.