Yes! November is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, when thousands of people, not normally so inclined, attempt to bang out a 50,000 word manuscript (not quite a novel, but who cares) in just thirty days. I love this idea, and despite the fact that I'll be on vacation towards the latter half of this month, I'm gonna give it a shot.
I have a seperate blog for my would be novel, called
"Out'a My Way", but every now and then, I'll post notes here on my progress and on the process itself.
I describe the work as a semi-autobiographical paranoid fantasy. I have a vague idea of the concepts, the ideas, I'd like to explore, but I have no plot (yet), nor have I even named my protagonist, despite writing the first chapter, yesterday. Hopefully all of that will materialize, soon.
I have some bizarre story ideas I've always wanted to execute in some medium or another, but I've chosen not to bother with those, here, because they require a bit of research, that I'm still doing. For this story, I've decided to keep it somewhat simple (let's see if I hold to that) and close to home. My protagonist and perhaps the other characters who populate this world will resemble in some fashion or form, me and a few people I know, in settings that I'm familiar with, for the most part. There's where the semi-autobiographical part comes in. The story itself may not reflect anything that's actually happened to me. The beatdown, as produced in the first chapter, for instance, is an invention, but the situation is not completely alien to me.
For more on NaNoWriMo, click on the title link, for more on blogging your novel
"click here", it's not too late to start.
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