I have decided to get involved in NaNoWriMo, through NaNoBlogMo. What is all this?? Well, it is an attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. Start date and time, 12:01 am, Midnight Nov1. End date Midnight Nov 30. (National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, get it?)
UNDAMNFORTUNATELY, this requires the novel to be entirely written from scratch, which I found out after I already registered this particular blog site.
SO, I have to put the current A Stranger in Town story line on hold.
This is really OK, because, the original plan for this was for multiple stories to start At The Sign Of The Screaming Monkey's Head. See, this tavern will be the springboard for many interrelated yet separate stories! I stole this concept from a book of short stories I read once called Tales From the White Hart.
What this means is that I have to start a brand new story FROM SCRATCH on Nov 1. Those of you interested in Fred and Barney will have to wait. Meanwhile, the second story line will begin on November 1st.
The working title is Sylk and The Ruminantia
I hope they, the NaNoWriMo folks, will be OK with this workaround, since I already have this blog up and running.
Wish me luck.
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I wish you luck!
Bah. Rules... Start early. Finish late. Whatever. I for one have no delusions of winning the contest, so I figure I may as well break all the rules as I go.
And the monkey head looks less like he's screaming and more like he's demanding some of my pizza.
Maybe I spend too much time with my dogs...
Hey, I'm not anonymous. I'm sic. What's blogger doing to me?
I'm glad you cleared that up! About the only person that posts on my sites as 'Anonymous' is my mom. I was wondering if she sat next to a pod or something. She doesn't have any dogs.
Blogger was acting strangely the other day, I guess that's what done it!
I thought about just using what I had and going forward, but I really just want to see if I can do it. I suppose I could take the existing story (currently at just under 5,000 words) and just add 50k more. But, I have already worked through some characters and have a bare bones outline in my head that is now intriquing me. It's sort of a prequel to the current "A Stranger In Town". Therefore, I shall forge on!
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