NaNoWriMo 2011: T-13 Hours and Counting

NaNoWriMo 2011 starts in less than 13 hours now. I'm fairly prepared. I know my characters inside and out, because they're Stig and Isabell from Aboard the Unstoppable Aerostat Fenris and The Great Healion Race. I have no idea yet what the next two books will be called. I do know they'll likely be the last two books in the series (though I have an idea for a short story that I may publish for free or add to one of the other books as a bonus). I was originally planning on six books, but I feel like that might end up dragging the series out for too long, and upon looking over my original outline, I can cut and combine two of the books without taking anything of substance away from the overall story.

And, to be quite honest, I'm ready to move on to other things. I love The Steam and Steel Chronicles, I love the characters, but I also have a lot of other projects that I love and want to work on.

So, I'll leave a few tidbits about what will be happening in the next two books:

A certain device from ATUAF will be making another appearance.
A certain character or two from TGHR will be reappearing in a fairly major role in Book 3.
Things will most definitely be resolved between Stig and Isabell.

I'll also offer you this photo of how I always pictured Stig (sorry if you've always pictured him differently). If there's ever a film version of the books (which I honestly hope there will be, and will consider producing myself at some point in the future), I'll be lobbying hard for Grant Bowler.

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Now, as for NaNoWriMo itself, I may stay up until midnight tonight to try to knock out a thousand words or so before bed. If you're new to NaNo, you might want to check out My Guide to Surviving NaNoWriMo (which was also republished on Publetariat).

I'm going to aim for 2,000 words a day so that I can take days off around Thanksgiving if I need to. And for those days when I'm just not feeling it and only manage a few hundred words. It's always a challenge to manage a full-time writing/editing/copywriting job, plus a college-level class, plus writing at that rate, but I've done it before and I'm 99% sure I can do it again (you just might see me a lot less on Twitter/Google+/Facebook until December).

Also, if you want to "Buddy" me on the NaNoWriMo site, feel free to do so here.