Wednesday, 26 September 2007

NaNoWriMo 2007
Topic: NaNoWriMo 2007

NaNoWriMo is about to roll around again.  I'm due for another novel, so I'll give it a shot again. 

 I am disappointedly not done with Dragon's Last Whisper.  It went well for a while but I've been essentially stuck for months and months, although I've done a couple rewrites to try and get it back under control.  That hasn't worked.  I know what happens inthe big picture, I'm just having a hard time getting there.  I'm in Chapter 12.

 There are several new characters or characters with greatly expanded roles, including Keye, Eus, Nkiju, Shooter Thompson ( I love Shooter), Uerch, Kinn, Muutsweeno, Slissar, Tolar, and my personal favorite, an extremely high Kaev.  Even old Boot shows up.  So do a ton of meese.  I'll poke at it before November, but am going to have to admit, I think, that I'll have to set it aside for a while.

I did finish 'Saint Possum and the Ebon Miris', which was not a NaNoWriMo effort.  It's my best novel so far.   Finished it in June 2006 and have edited it a couple times now.  I like it a lot.  <3 Possum.

Now for something new.  I've got several ideas for this year's novel, and am trying to decide which one I'll have the most fun with.  

1) The sequel to Winds of this World.  I know what happens.  It's not pretty.

2) The story of the people at Calla Station, an isolated space outpost along a trade route, right at the edge of a particularly dangerous region of space.  It's a bit like a lighthouse, and it's run by a family.  This could be epicly long. 

3)  The story of what happened to Loquen after he went after the slavers.  Meh. 

4) The blood poisoning matter with the vampires (Juncture story with Possum and Galen, and Aulus too).  This is more likely a short story or novella. 

5) Redo of Spiritwalkers.  Meh. No point in rewriting something old.  

I've got a month or so to hash it out.  Hopefully I pick something especially inspirational.  November is going to suck time wise - two weeks on duty, including Thanksgiving, and a push from 2 separate guilds to play EQ in November (which I was going to drop for a month).  Oh well - if I can squeeze in a trip to Mexico and get a novel out, I should be able to do it again this year, right?  Right? Guh.

Posted by pinkcthulhu at 1:57 PM CDT

Updated: Wednesday, 26 September 2007 2:01 PM CDT

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