Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo 2011! This is the sixth year in a row that I've participated. I also began it in 2003, but I didn't get very far. I don't remember what my story that year was going to be. I do remember the other years. 2006 was an unnamed SF piece where deaf and hard-of-hearing people saved the world from alien domination. 2007 was Her Thirty Percent, a charming love triangle set in a gym where I let the woman keep both lovers. 2008 was Three Knights in Florida, a game-based tale where three facebook friends met in person for the first time and played a tournament of their own devising and faced a hurricane. 2009 was Adjusting the Shade, a family story about a grandfather and granddaughter pair of chiropractors and a ghost. 2010 is Tempo, the one I'm still writing, about a bipolar violinist recovering from the loss of her husband with the help of a psychiatrist who thinks he's a samurai. This year I have only a rough idea of what I want to do -- it features a delusional main character -- and a beginning I thought was pretty cool. Now that I'm a bit over 1000 words into it, I am not so sure. I am boring myself! This is not a terrible outcome, as it's not an outcome yet. I do plan to do some good writing and fun exploring. I also plan to continue to work on Tempo, last year's Nanovel, as it is not quite finished. Yes, I won (meaning I got my 50,000 words done) but no, the story wasn't finished. It turned out to be a lot bigger than I had planned on writing. Last night I roughed in some more story skeleton and notes on what I wanted the characters to have happen. I edited over the last couple of days, too, after leaving it mostly alone for a month. And speaking of leaving things alone! I have stopped playing Dragons of Atlantis! It was a big deal to me, to be able to do taht, as the game had me thoroughly sucked in. It was fun, and social, but I tend to be rather obvsessive and get all absorbed in games and don't get anything else done. I've always been that way, though before computers came into my life it was reading or writing that I usually got absorbed in. So. My story this year will be fun, eventually, even if I have to tweak the concept a few more times. Or even a lot more times. See you on the other side! |
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