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Camp Nanowrimo Project Has a Title

Apparently 2013 is just the year for ambitious goals, because the three book goal has turned into a four book goal (sort of).

This year for Camp Nanowrimo (campnanowrimo.org) the folks at the Office of Letters and Light added a new feature: custom word count goals. You can now set your goal to anything from 10,000 to 100,000 words. After much, much consideration and debate, I decided that this chance should not be wasted on the mere 30,000-ish of Kingstone's ending. (Ok, so it was also an excuse to procrastinate the actual writing of said Ending of Doom.)

Instead, I decided to jump sideways to a "little" project that has been swimming around in the back of my head. It's still part of the Gatewalkers universe - in fact, I've thought of a way to tie some lurking foundation into Kingstone - but it's a separate story. I haven't yet figured out a way to summarize the concept in a way that doesn't sound fluffy (which is funny considering the copious amounts of blood I'm planning), but the working title is *drumroll* Rose Among Thorns.

I know, there's a thousand other books with the same title. It's changing eventually. But for a working title it should do just fine.

I've set the word goal for 80,000 words, which should be a solid reading size for it. I have the plot arc more or less planned out, with wiggle room for surprises and development, and I've been given a challenge for it: a love triangle.

I hate love triangles. I could probably write pages about why. I also know there are readers who adore love triangles. The challenge will be making it work so that both readers and I will be happy with it. Hopefully this will be some good stretching for my writing muscles.

In the meantime, I haven't forgotten Kingstone. Camp's starting line is April 1st, so until then my plan is to type in all of what I have handwritten of Kingstone, including all the bits and pieces that somehow ended up spread across a dozen notebooks. Ideally, that means I'll be ready to face the Ending of Doom after camp.

A little like being ready to jump off a cliff into freezing cold seawater with jagged rocks hiding beneath the surface.
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Published on March 20, 2013 20:17 Tags: books, camp-nanowrimo, challenge, goals, kingstone, love-triangle, rose, writing