Now that the dust has settled, I am still disenchanted with my story and having to FORCE myself through it. My first issue with it is one easily solved in December after NaNoWriMo has ended. The timeline is massively screwed up. But to fix it I need to sit down with paper, re-read everything I've written and take notes on what times I randomly made up for each thing to be happening. And then get them into a more realistic timeline and fashion for science to unfold. Not worth the time it would take during NaNo.
Secondly, I wanted to write a book that merged adventure and science and right now I've got the science down but I'm not feeling the adventure. The characters are flat, no one is learning or changing and quite honestly I don't see how they could. If you have a bunch of experts investigating an outbreak they are going to be just that, experts. They love the challenge of the puzzle but this is not a life altering experience for them. How many of us are changed by a day at the office? It would have to be one hell of a day! There is no coming of age story to tell, they are all M.D.s and Ph.D.s, they are of age! I'm intentionally leaving romance out, so there is no falling in love arch. I'm not sure how to fix the story so it is still science and adventure. I can add a human emotional component with the patients and/or family members but then the science gets lost because they are not doing any science, they are just coughing and dying. This issue is one I am not sure how to fix.. hopefully I can figure it out or this idea may be dead before it ever truly gets started..
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