NaNo/ADAM - What do you mean I should be SOCIAL?!

To make thing easily and less confusing, I'll lump my NaNo updates an ADAM (I'm tired of typing the periods in already, told you it would happen) in joint blog posts so people don't get bored or something.

Starting with all the fire I could muster, I hammered out two fine chapters and got well into a third chapter in... Two weeks? I don't know, I lost track, but the fact is I'm sticking on it. My test reader (my girlfriend who's threatened violence on me if I forget her signed copy of Regolith once more) has read it and likes the fact that it's far less wordy than Rising Seas. Hey, I didn't think it was wordy at all! I was going for a door stopper sized epic. Wanted to be the self published Martin is all.
That leads me to wonder, most self published works I've seen physical copies of are all about 200-400 pages. Like, Rising Seas is three-seventy-something. (378 in print I THINK, I don't know, I don't have page numbers. Elias, if you read this blog post - ever - SHUT UP!)
I wonder if self published authors ever write big door stoppers like George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss do? I can't imagine many would because marketing print copies of that would be a living hell. Think about it: "Let me run the math. My book is rounding 1,500 pages, I basically pay $15 a copy, plus taxes and shipping. I guess I'll charge $20 or more to try and turn a profit? Hey, wanna buy a $20 epic door stopper?"
That's why I like Rising Seas's size. I get copies at an ok price and can turn them around at $9-$10 without having a little dude with a pitchfork stab me in the head. (One last diversion, the idea of a little red dude with goat horns and a forked tail for a devil was Dante's idea in The Inferno and he stole that from the Greek mythology of Pan, the Satyr. I learned that on History Channel!)

And I'm off track... Wordy, NaNo... Crap. Let me backtrack a moment.
Oh, oh! Jess read the first two chapters. Yeah, ok. Got it.

So, she read them an was surprised that it had a sci-fi vibe to it. Coming from her, coupled with the fact that I had little idea how to do anything besides fantasy (hell, I even worry that the romance-y parts of my books don't work) that's amusing! I'm glad I finally branched out, even if accidentally.

Basically, I get 50k words to tell the story of Adam; adding another piece to the series and getting closer to... I'm not even sure what the ending will be at this point. The Storyteller was SUPPOSED to be the end, but that was dropped when I had ideas for Story of Zero (Since dropped), The Cataclysmic Treasures (Removed from canon), Utopian, and Escapist. It all comes down to I dropped three books total from the canon I HAD and am running with these... Three, four, SIX! Six total books in all and all.
That 50k is a gift and a curse to me. The gift is that there is less space to fill, less nonsense to cook up, less waste in the words, and etc.
The curse comes from I don't get all the little diversions I get fond of from time to time. That History Channel show I mentioned, Real Monsters, had a segment on a Japanese urban myth called Kuchisake-onna. The premise is that there's this beautiful, thirty-something year old woman roaming the city streets wearing a surgical mask. In Japanese culture, surgical masks in public isn't out of place per say because when someone is sick, they wear one out of politeness to others to not transmit their sickness. So, you see her in a dark alley (what are urban myths without dark alleys? What would Batman be without them either?) and she approaches you to ask 'Watashi kirei?' or 'Am I pretty?'. You answer 'no', and she kills you. Big surprise, huh? You answer 'yes' and she takes off her mask to reveal that her mouth has been slit open from ear-to-ear (think Heath Ledger Joker, for images) and asks again.
Again, same premise. No means death, yes means she slits your mouth to look like her! Wonderful little tale.
Short end of it, I wanted to include something like that, but with only 50k works, I don't want to waste a single letter!

Another aspect of the NaNo, is that my region has a kick-off party and weekly write-ins. Will I go? No idea. I'm about as social as a can of beans. No, really, I feel off in social situations. Completely. So time will tell if I go.

This got derailed a lot today. Ah well, people will read it and realize it's another nutty author.