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It's 3:15. I'm trying to get my brain to wind down enough to sleep so my schedule doesn't drift too far out of control by having my LEDs on their lowest red setting. These things cast a dim enough glow to just barely see by; I suppose it looks like an old photography lab in here like this.
On my mind is the coming Nanowrimo. I've had a novel ... mostly... outlined in my head for years now. Probably more like a trilogy, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Will I do it this year? Who knows. I actually want to start sooner than November, and eschew the Nano concept entirely. I don't think I could hammer this whole thing out in one month anyway.
As far as the novel goes, it's actually a story world that's a fusion of five short stories I wrote since middle school. Some of them were pretty bad, and will need a total rehash, but I've developed as a wordsmith since those days, so I think the challenge is more fitting them together cleanly. Initially, those five stories weren't intended to be within the same universe; it was only many years later did I realize how well they could coexist.
The general plan is to get about a quarter of the story done, then begin publishing it chapter by chapter as a web serial. I already have the platform for that developed (both a journal here on Dreamwidth and a custom script I wrote to publish to my own website too). I have at least the first quarter of the story outlined in explicit detail. I guess I just need to start.
But hasn't that always been the barrier?
On my mind is the coming Nanowrimo. I've had a novel ... mostly... outlined in my head for years now. Probably more like a trilogy, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Will I do it this year? Who knows. I actually want to start sooner than November, and eschew the Nano concept entirely. I don't think I could hammer this whole thing out in one month anyway.
As far as the novel goes, it's actually a story world that's a fusion of five short stories I wrote since middle school. Some of them were pretty bad, and will need a total rehash, but I've developed as a wordsmith since those days, so I think the challenge is more fitting them together cleanly. Initially, those five stories weren't intended to be within the same universe; it was only many years later did I realize how well they could coexist.
The general plan is to get about a quarter of the story done, then begin publishing it chapter by chapter as a web serial. I already have the platform for that developed (both a journal here on Dreamwidth and a custom script I wrote to publish to my own website too). I have at least the first quarter of the story outlined in explicit detail. I guess I just need to start.
But hasn't that always been the barrier?
