slipjig3 | There's an evil flesh-eating beastie looming ahead, and he has a RED PENCIL

Although official signup isn't for another week, it looks like I've committed my brain to NaNoWriMo this year.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to get out of it.

The trouble is, the damned book really and truly wants to be written now, and given the amount of useless downtime at work with nothing even remotely better to do, I don't have much excuse not to do this thing. Plus, I've crossed two hurdles that pretty much guarantee this is going to happen one way or the other:

1) I have a title that I'm happy with. (The Noise of Endless Wars, from a Milton quote, if you must know.)

2) Someone asked me what the book was going to be about, and I told them.

Plus, the pieces are starting to fit together in my head, kinda. I've been working the grimoire (my NaNo brainstorming and organizational notebook) for about a month now, and I'm beginning to see the path of the story, not that the path is anything startlingly original or anything. I just wish new plot elements would stop popping up in my head and lingering: "Hi! I'm going to be a character in your book! No, you don't have a choice! And don't ask me how I'm supposed to fit, either. That's your problem, Writer Boy."

Also, since (a) this is my first attempt at genre fiction, and (b) I will commit hari kiri if it turns into cliché-ridden codswallop, I'm walking a bit of a thin line. It doesn't help that my protagonist already told me her name—Tala Kiernan—in no uncertain terms, which means I'm going to be fending off Mercedes Lackey comparisons in my head for an entire friggin' month. Luckily, I've already determined both that the story will take place in contemporary America and that Tala is the sort to use the word "fuck" a lot in casual conversation, so hopefully I can maintain the edge.

The other problem? I'm getting the sinking feeling that this story won't fit in a single 50,000 word novel. In other words, trilogy in progress. Sigh.

issendai doesn't call October "NaNoOhShitMo" for nothing.

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Isn't Tala one of the characters in Stargate Atlantis, also? *runs off out of thwapping range* Good luck with the writing, I love hearing about folks' NaNo experiences :)

Aiee, don't tell me these things! Seriously, my creative brain is fragile enough that'd I'm liable to throw the whole thing in the garbage. (Well, I'd likely stop myself from doing so, but still.) *thwaps you anyway*

Thank you so much for the well-wishes, hon. They're much appreciated (and needed *grin*). *hugs* You ARE going to be NaNo-ing this year, too, riiiight? *more with the hint, hint*

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