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[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Intro Post - October 23rd
Hey everyone!

Please feel free to use this post to introduce yourself to the community! Talk about yourself, what you're writing, and how excited you are!

Also, if this is your first time in the community, please take a moment to review the community rules for October here

Need some writing warmups? Find a link with all this year's warm-up exercises HERE!
The Regional Meetup and Friending Thread is HERE!


And remember that you can pimp your Nano LJ's and other websites in the 2009 Pimping Thread!

Chat away!

Comments

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Hey there, everyone. I'm Kiya, and I'm doing my third NaNo (won my first two). I skipped last year due to work/school overload, but I'm out of school now, and figure it's time to tackle it again.

This year, I'll be writing a gaslight fantasy novella. My characters are based on (though not the same as) mythological creatures from all over the world (fauns, nagas, satyrs, harpies, Native American spirit-gods, tengu, mermaids, werewolves, etc), but the setting is more akin to what one would expect to find in Steampunk fiction. The plot features things like clandestine societies that are working to take over the country in which the novel is set, both heterosexual and homosexual romances and romantic pairings (with SEX - I'm not shy), some very nastily leaking rifts in the matrix of reality, an oracle who just doesn't exist from the hips down, and the occasional vision-induced seizure. Also, some soldiers and lots and lots of guns and fighting.

The title will be The Precognist: or, The Society for the Invigoration of the Commonwealth. I have a not-yet completed webpage (http://kiyakotari.com/NEW/STEAM/steamindex.html) set up for it. I also collect ABJD (Massively Expensive Asian Dolls), and have been very slowly acquiring the main characters of the story as dolls for the last ten months or so.

[cyber-mages.livejournal.com]

That sound really interesting! *bookmarks webpage* I've never actually read any gaslight fantasy before, but the concept sounds extremely interesting :) I'm sure I'll be following anything you put up. Good luck!

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Gaslight fantasy is loads of fun. I've seen it approached in many different ways. I've also seen some people use the term "weird fiction" to describe similar work, and many Steampunk novels that incorporate strong fantasy themes and characters could be called Gaslight Fantasy instead.

I'm not sure how much of my writing I'll put up on the website, since I plan on refining and publishing this work eventually, but I'll probably put at least a few excerpts up there.