Egads Brain, Nanowrimo really crept up on me this year. It starts tomorrow! Normally by this time I would have at least an outline and a tentative title for whatever I wanted to spent the next thirty days churning out. I must admit the temptation to just give it a miss this year is mighty. However I like doing the nano, I think it's good for me, it feels good to create something, and I would like to give it a shot.
Since I don't really have a novel in mind, I thought I might revisit my failed 2006 entry, Penumbra. This is an idea I've had for at least ten years, and would love to see it completed and this is a good opportunity. I thought the first nine chapters I wrote were very good, and then I kind of lost the plot in chapters ten and eleven- I originally intended for Kerron's story to be a flipside to Alys', for his journey to find her to be just as long and difficult as hers to him. But I lost my nerve and kind of rushed through his story in an attempt to finish it, and it all went awry. So I want to go back to chapter ten and take it more slowly, and spend some time with the nightsiders and their culture.
Now, technically this is against the rules of nano, you are not supposed to continue an already-written work. However you are allowed to do sequels, so I am just going to call what I completed in 2006 'Book One' and begin a fresh book tomorrow, called 'Book Two'. So it's not a continued work! It's the start of a new one, and indeed it will be the start of a different story- it will just eventually meet up with the old one.
Alternatively, if anyone has a great idea for a novel to start tomorrow, I am all ears!
If you want to go back and read Penumbra (it's pretty short so far, 25000 words) and let me know what I can improve for book two, that would be rad.
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Since I don't really have a novel in mind, I thought I might revisit my failed 2006 entry, Penumbra. This is an idea I've had for at least ten years, and would love to see it completed and this is a good opportunity. I thought the first nine chapters I wrote were very good, and then I kind of lost the plot in chapters ten and eleven- I originally intended for Kerron's story to be a flipside to Alys', for his journey to find her to be just as long and difficult as hers to him. But I lost my nerve and kind of rushed through his story in an attempt to finish it, and it all went awry. So I want to go back to chapter ten and take it more slowly, and spend some time with the nightsiders and their culture.
Now, technically this is against the rules of nano, you are not supposed to continue an already-written work. However you are allowed to do sequels, so I am just going to call what I completed in 2006 'Book One' and begin a fresh book tomorrow, called 'Book Two'. So it's not a continued work! It's the start of a new one, and indeed it will be the start of a different story- it will just eventually meet up with the old one.
Alternatively, if anyone has a great idea for a novel to start tomorrow, I am all ears!
If you want to go back and read Penumbra (it's pretty short so far, 25000 words) and let me know what I can improve for book two, that would be rad.
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Where's the first entry of Penumbra? Seems you didn't add that tag to the first two entries, so the category starts at chapter 3.
Good Lord, I didn't think anyone was actually going to read this!
Er, yes, the first two chapters DO exist, it's just that the archiving only extends to two entries. I will fix this up, er... now!
And like, it'd be cool if you could eventually get around to finishing "Book One", otherwise "Book Two" might not make any sense.
Sorry Matt, I guess I didn't make myself sufficiently clear- Book One IS finished, it is Chapters 1 thru 9 (I am removing 10 and 11 since they will be incorporated, in a different fashion, completely rewritten from scratch not even looking at them, into Book Two).
Does that make sense?
Hey this is funny- I was just taking down the entry for Chapter 10, and this is your comment at the time, Matt:
"Hmmm... Is this like, "book two" of Penumbra? Seems like that. "this is the story of how we changed the world." Brilliant. Can't wait."