nanowrimo_lj | hi there!

I introduced myself in

nanowrimo04 yesterday, so I s'pose I ought to introduce myself here...

2004 is my third year doing NaNoWriMo and, I hope, the first year I'll win. I made it to all of 1200 words in 2002; in 2003 I made it to about 23,500 but in the end the demands of working full-tme and being in school part-time took their toll. I do plan to go back to both of those projects, though. This year, I not only am not in school but, due to a maternity leave, had to push my scheduled vacation time from August to November.

This year I'm fleshing out and working on something that came to me as a very vivid and recurring dream. So far I've only got the first scene and the name worked out. It's set in a post-World War III time and involves the main creator of the biological weapons trying to redeem himself by spreading antidotes.

I still need a real conflict and I've been out searching for one because I do like to at least have an outline while I am writing (I don't always stick to it). I think I've got a strong enough setting and good characters; as soon as I have a plot it should fall into place. I hope...

My writing can be found at

nanoria. It's a friends-only journal because I have had some plagiarism problems, but if you join it and tell me who you are, chances are I will add you.

I'm looking forward to it!