Hi, I'm Louisa. I am participating in Nano for the first time this year. I have been cheering various friends on the last few years, but have never had time to participate myself. I don't really have time this year, but am going to give it my best shot.
I am planning ahead by working 11 and 12 hour days so I can try and avoid too much overtime in November. I have also booked a week off of work for the third week of the month, though my family is helpfully adding other commitments to my week without bothering to tell me, so how much writing time I end up with then is currently open for debate. I am going to have to fight for every minute of "novel time".
I am writing a fantasy novel about a merfolk community in modern times. The plot centres around twin sons who are born to a mermaid and a human man. One is born with fins and cannot grow legs on land, the other is born with legs and cannot grow fins in the water. When they reach adulthood they each get the ability to transform for the first time, which is where the story begins.
I probably won't be posting any of it online and it is doubtful the novel will be finished in the month - I have a tendency to go rather epic with my stories when it comes to length - but I am really going to try to at least hit the 50k mark by the deadline, and thus have a really good start to the story down on "paper".
Anyway, before this becomes as long and waffling as my stories let me just wish everyone participating good luck and then slink off back into lurk mode again.
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Date: 2009-10-23 07:53 pm (UTC)I am planning ahead by working 11 and 12 hour days so I can try and avoid too much overtime in November. I have also booked a week off of work for the third week of the month, though my family is helpfully adding other commitments to my week without bothering to tell me, so how much writing time I end up with then is currently open for debate. I am going to have to fight for every minute of "novel time".
I am writing a fantasy novel about a merfolk community in modern times. The plot centres around twin sons who are born to a mermaid and a human man. One is born with fins and cannot grow legs on land, the other is born with legs and cannot grow fins in the water. When they reach adulthood they each get the ability to transform for the first time, which is where the story begins.
I probably won't be posting any of it online and it is doubtful the novel will be finished in the month - I have a tendency to go rather epic with my stories when it comes to length - but I am really going to try to at least hit the 50k mark by the deadline, and thus have a really good start to the story down on "paper".
Anyway, before this becomes as long and waffling as my stories let me just wish everyone participating good luck and then slink off back into lurk mode again.