All in a two day madness...

[annina-writes.livejournal.com]

I decided to enter NaNoWriMo this year again (I was a winner last year), even though things are still pretty much discombobilated following hurricane Ivan (I'm in Pensacola). But last year I had taken the time to plan things out, write a plot outline, develop characters, even cast their horoscopes. This year I started with a one page story idea following a weird dream I'd just had. It flopped. I couldn't get started after the first thousand words or so. Nada.

So I went through my old story/novel ideas and found something I'd left on the back burner since 1996. There were parts of it already written, but since, according to the official Nano site, I'm not the only one using an extant story, and I plan to add at least 50,000 words, this is it. Well, I got a fire under my patootie just as soon as I started working on it. I havne't been able to keep my mind on anything else, and so I've gotten an obscene number of words done in only two days. I'll probably be at it through the night, as I collapsed into a little puddle of authory limpness after I posted chapter two and crashed for six hours.

I was going to go with something a little more sophisticated...contemporary weirdness over the usual fantasy, but this one is...you guessed it...Tolkeinesque high fantasy. Well, I don't care. Beline is at me now to finally finish her tale, and so I must. Poor darlin', she's been waiting for eight years!!

If you care to take the time out of your own writing efforts, you can find my efforts in my montblanc journal, but you need to add me as a friend, or comment here or there so I can add you as a friend. Because of the current consensus that if a piece of fiction gets more than a thousand hits or is available on a public area, it may be considered pubished by editors/publishers, I've made the journal Friends Only. But you need only ask. All constructive criticism is extremely important to me and welcomed.


Please forgive me for cross-posting in three different Nano communities. It's a one shot deal to let people know I'm here. Updates will be at my regular LJ and montblanc.

Comments

[novembermadness.livejournal.com]

develop characters, even cast their horoscopes.

May I just say that that is an *excellent* idea? Because it is - when you're stuck, daily horoscopes can be an inspiration :D Just a little idea of how things might go in the writing that day. May I steal it? :)

[annina-writes.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely, with my compliments! Believe me, once you assign a birthday and place of birth for a character, then consult a horoscope, things really start to fall into place. I'm not sure where I found the notion...I think perhaps I was grumbling about a wayward protagonist and one of my NewAgey friend asked if I'd cast horoscopes. Woot!

[novembermadness.livejournal.com]

:D thanks so much!

[nano-curio.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your novel. I've had my idea on the back burner for a year and a half, so I'm pretty glad I decided to write it out now.

Are you posting the excerpts you write each day? Cause I don't have time to read those presently. But if you're posting towards the end, then I might amble over once I'm done with my own NaNo-ing.

[annina-writes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm posting each chapter as I write it in my montblanc journal. I'll give you friend's status so you can read it when things slow down to a steady roar.

[nano-curio.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I wondered who that was. :)

I'll try to give it a read as soon as I can, but that will obviously be once I'm done with mine and have taken a bit of a break (cause I'm thinking of doing an editing swap thing).

Anyway, I'll definitely read and thank you for friending me. ♥