Real Life

Right. I've made a decision and not at all due to the subliminal messaging I've received in my gmail inbox.

I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year. November marks National November Writing Month, where people across the globe commit to writing 50,000 words in 30 days and see if a novel can be formed from those words. I've had three stories emerge from the fires of NaNo - Remains, An Art To It and Hideout, and I need to feel that dedication to the writing. I mean, I'll probably be juggling edits at the same time, but if anything pushes you to write better, it's your editor telling you not to give an inanimate object feelings or a body part acting independently. Breasts don't talk do they? I mean mine make themselves very present (because they are ginormous) but speaking words? No... no...

I've been fiddling about with an idea for a while, mainly because I've been playing the Love Island Game and my obsession with pixelated dick is out of control, Hot Muse Hank has directed me to put the obsession to the laptop screen. If you follow me on Twitter, you are probably over aware of how much reality tv I watch. I know it's scripted, I know producers tell people what to do, how to breathe, when to fuck over their mates, and what to wear while they're doing it. In the age of social media, it's easy to find out how that those singletons continued their relationship on First Dates, if the stars (and I use that term loosely) of an entertainment reality show are still together, who got engaged, if it's true that so and so is pregnant, and the mystery is very tough to keep secret. Hot Muse Hank thought about it for a moment and said "Challenge accepted!" Means I'm writing one.

It's going to by a typical Billy London scrap with plenty of nonsense, a few twists, a quite a bit of sexy time and wrap it all nice and neatly in 50,000 words. With NaNo, the pantsing has to go out of the window and I need to be somewhat more structured to get the writing done. The last time I struggled to meet my word count, I just threw sex scenes at it until the words count depleted. May try the same cheat sheet this time around but I'm excited to start, to form my characters and to lead them on a path to love.