To NaNo, or not to NaNo; Dragonsbane: If...
Sorry about not doing the once-a-month post, but I fell off a little bit.
Now into the meat of this post.
October is almost over. Halloween draws near, my costume is on its way, Christmas displays are cropping up like flesh-hungry reminders of that time of year.
YIKES.
That also means that it is time once again for NaNoWriMo. The yearly event in November (National Novel Writing Month) where writers of all calibers dedicate themselves to writing 50,000 words for their own benefit (or torture).
Last year I wrote ADAM for the event and succeeded, much to my delight and the approval of others.
This year, I have no idea if I'm going to do it.
Long story short, I HAVE an idea that I've played with many a time before and it fits the theme of this year: Sci-Fi. Whether or not I can or will actually participate is totally up in the air with a week to go.
Why? Simple. I have a lot of stuff going on, most importantly (after wedding planning of course) is Dragonsbane. I'm so very close to finishing the primary writing of the novel. Like three chapters close. Between that, classes, working, and etc, I don't know that I will have time to participate fully.
My NaNo idea was a sci-fi story based in the Cold War era, late Cold War I figure. Lonely sociopath gets chosen by a lottery to be shipped off into the cold wilderness in a bunker of mysterious origin. He's allowed to live there, free of charge, as long as he keeps a journal (the basis of the story), and follows the orders of a scientist.
I like it, but I don't know how much of it I can actually function with. You know?
Next thing of note: I had a cool idea. I really cool idea in my idea. Last week my fiance and I went to see Storks, a movie. When we were leaving, I had an epiphany about Dragonsbane. I want to possibly write on an experimental time line screw-around called Dragonsbane: If...
One of the important characters from the second book would get scorned by Thomas in some way and goes back in time to get even.
Time line fun for the whole family.
Anyway, I'll try to post next week about my WriMo suffering, if it exists, but I don't know yet.
Catch you around.
Now into the meat of this post.
October is almost over. Halloween draws near, my costume is on its way, Christmas displays are cropping up like flesh-hungry reminders of that time of year.
YIKES.
That also means that it is time once again for NaNoWriMo. The yearly event in November (National Novel Writing Month) where writers of all calibers dedicate themselves to writing 50,000 words for their own benefit (or torture).
Last year I wrote ADAM for the event and succeeded, much to my delight and the approval of others.
This year, I have no idea if I'm going to do it.
Long story short, I HAVE an idea that I've played with many a time before and it fits the theme of this year: Sci-Fi. Whether or not I can or will actually participate is totally up in the air with a week to go.
Why? Simple. I have a lot of stuff going on, most importantly (after wedding planning of course) is Dragonsbane. I'm so very close to finishing the primary writing of the novel. Like three chapters close. Between that, classes, working, and etc, I don't know that I will have time to participate fully.
My NaNo idea was a sci-fi story based in the Cold War era, late Cold War I figure. Lonely sociopath gets chosen by a lottery to be shipped off into the cold wilderness in a bunker of mysterious origin. He's allowed to live there, free of charge, as long as he keeps a journal (the basis of the story), and follows the orders of a scientist.
I like it, but I don't know how much of it I can actually function with. You know?
Next thing of note: I had a cool idea. I really cool idea in my idea. Last week my fiance and I went to see Storks, a movie. When we were leaving, I had an epiphany about Dragonsbane. I want to possibly write on an experimental time line screw-around called Dragonsbane: If...
One of the important characters from the second book would get scorned by Thomas in some way and goes back in time to get even.
Time line fun for the whole family.
Anyway, I'll try to post next week about my WriMo suffering, if it exists, but I don't know yet.
Catch you around.
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