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50025 / 50000 words. 100% done!

Fourteen days, I have never written so fast in my life. (Previous readers of my NaNo journal will remember that usually I am around 15,000 words behind by week 3 and only manage to make it up through superhuman effort, so I suppose technically that is faster, but it's only one weekend, not sustained effort!)

I am not quite done with the actual story but I am definitely taking a break from it for a few days to regain some sanity. I'd post what I have, but I'm pretty certain it's not going to make any sense.

This year's attempt, assuming all goes according to plan, will be fantasy and involve mages and warriors and sudden unexpected soulbonding.

NaNoWriMo: When writing cliches is acceptable and fun!

TODO, pref. before Saturday:

Essential:
- Name the characters, including various minor characters
- Figure out the magic system
- Name the various cities and towns that will be significant to the story

Optional:
- Decide on the direction of the plot

As usual, story entries will be friendslocked so comment to be added.

This year's NaNoWriMo project will be a slightly trashy vampire (gay) romance. The catch is that the main vampire character is not allowed to angst, at all, ever.

It'll be posted friendslocked at first, but not filtered unless I get really really embarrassed (this is, alas, extremely likely).

Would people prefer me to post in complete sections or daily blocks?


*My brother was very thoughtlessly born on November 1st and thus I have been unable to write today.

THANK YOU ALL FOR ENCOURAGING ME!

So apparently I forgot to actually mention that I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year. It's the restructure/rewrite of Kite I've been talking about.

Leave a comment here if you want to read - basic rules are, comment to encourage, not to correct, because I am not allowed to edit and if I do I will fail. Seriously.



Actually I'm probably going to fail anyway, but I'm ahead of wordcount for the moment! *waves little flags*

Too tired to actually post fic. Later.

Note: All NaNoWriMo writing will be under the NaNoWriMo 2006 tag, not the Kite tag. It'll be archived under Kite after it's de-NaNoed (ie. edited).

Update: November 2006
I'm reworking Kite for NaNoWriMo 2006! Check out the NaNoWriMo 2006 tag for more information!

Kite is the NaNoWriMo project I've worked on the most. Although it isn't finished, the first part stands on its own fairly well, as does the Kite backstory.

All actual writing posts are friendslocked - leave a comment here to be added.

Key links:

Main Storyline
Note: 2nd October 2006
I'm in the middle of completely restructuring pretty much the entire story, so please bear in mind that most of the continuity actually written below is going to be wiped when I'm finished.
Part 1 (Complete)
Interlude (Complete)
Part 2 (Unfinished)
Part 2 Continued: One | Two


Kite Backstory (Complete, but unrevised)
One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven
These were posted sequentially, so you should be able to use the back/forward links.

If you're interested in the actual NaNoWriMo writing process from 2003, check out the entries under the nanowrimo 2003. All new additions to the story (along with revised old parts) will only be posted under the Kite tag.

So I think I mentioned this briefly, but my basic approach to NaNo is essentially going to be using a whole heap of characters I have sitting in my head that don't get out much.

Heck, I might even write Saphrael into it, although he'd probably find it a bit weird. ("What do you mean Earth has collided with another world and suddenly magic exists and entire continents have disappeared? I thought at least the shape of the continents would be the same*..." *cue angstful musing about the world changing [*])

Basic setting will be around a university in aforementioned Merged World.

Question: Would a world where magic exists have such thing as SF/Fantasy novels (although I'd call it Speculative Fiction) and associated clubs? I'm leaning towards 'yes', mostly because of the state of historical fiction in our own world, the fact that magic hasn't always existed in Merged World, and failing that they still haven't explored space or anything so there's the perfect opening for Star Trek.

Besides, I like geeks.

Things to decide: Would they have reached the moon?

They have things equated to modern technology, powered by magic in some way. Technomancers deal with this. (The merging occurred around the same time as the Industrial Revolution, and once they got over the shock of things and the language barrier etc. etc. things sort of settled down and they developed technology together. [**]

Really I think this is just my way of getting cars and computers and so on into a world without, you know, destroying the planet.

* He is, of course, wrong about this, but he hasn't lived that long. [^]

** I have a lot of faith in my fictional humanity. [^]

Entries tagged NaNoWriMo 2003 are ones that I feel fit into the period of, well, NaNoWriMo 2003. The story was continued somewhat a couple of years later, so if you want to find out what happened next, I suggest you look under the Kite tag.

All actual fic posts are friendslocked (leave a comment to be added). Anything unlocked will just be me angsting (please don't judge me for that).

Thanks,
~Liz
18 April 2006