NaNoWriMo Project #4
Today, I move to the next project. It's a quickly one before I move to the two long ones of the month. This is a short story about a human incubator for organ smuggling. She's an addict, doing this for drug money, and she's stuck on a space dock with no way to keep travelling. If she's caught, she's looking forward to life in prison. To make things worse, her meds are wearing off.
I have a couple of short story/novella themed collections in mind, if you haven't noticed from the themes. The first collection is a Canadian First Nations themed collection about identity. "Harvest Moon" is the first story, exploring the concept of gender. I've just finished one on the concept of humanity. I also have another coming up this month looking at the identity of culture. I might also explore marriage, but I'm not certain yet.
The other collection I want to explore is a science fiction-focused look at events that will change everything for humans. One of those things is cloning. Project #4 (since it doesn't have a title) will be exploring a universe where humans can clone and grow spare organs and the dark side of that.
What do I plan to do with these collections? I have no idea if I'll be selling the stories individually or wait to sell them as a collection (though, I've already sold Harvest Moon, so I might just keep going). I just know that I want to do a group of stories exploring specific things.
I've been asked if I'm going to write any novels. The answer is yes. I am going through Road to Hell in December, getting it ready for submissions in January. I am aiming to finish Tranquility's Grief's first draft in early 2011 (I've had to re-vamp the entire outline, so I need to rearrange what I have so far). I might even do a novel for NaNo next year, but we'll see. And let's not forget that I already have a full-length novel out in submission world as we speak [image error]
Anyone else working on NaNo out there? Are you getting mid-month blues? Are things going well? Gotten your second wind? Share!
