NaNoWriMo No. 3

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The beauty with NaNoWriMo novels is they come with a built-in title (NaNoWriMo No. 1, NaNoWriMo No. 2), no title anxiety required.

As I contemplate doing NaNoWriMo No. 3, I think back to 2012 and all the reasons NOT to NaNoWrite. Then, come 2013 and no longer saddled with a job, I jumped in.

A lot of fun, it was, so in I jumped again in 2014.

So, how did those two go? First, let me say I am a fast writer, or so I’ve been told. I should be able to easily do 50K+ words in a single month.

But, as mentioned HERE, I missed the word count the first year.

In my defense, we traveled the last 11 days of November, visiting friends and Disney in Florida. At the time we left, I was pretty much on track and foolishly thought I could make it. I fell woefully short. The novel was not finished until the following year. Last year, 2014, I made sure I would get a good jump on it.

Notice I was never behind the schedule. By November 30^th I had a 5K word surplus. The novel eventually hit the 70K words range. The first five chapters of the novel comprised my submission to Viable Paradise.

In case anyone is wondering, I don’t change plot, structure, or characters when I edit. I fix stupid errors and tighten sentences. What I submitted is pretty much what I wrote on the fly. As a discovery writer, the initial stuff is very close to the finished product (minus, hopefully, stupid grammar mistakes).

I like both novels and have read them often. You can read the final thoughts on NaNoWriMo No. 2 HERE. That post talks a bit more about my writing process.

By the way, last year some readers asked me about the progress spreadsheet. I opted to provide a blank one for them interested (HERE). Understand, it is a primarily a tool for my own use. I am sure there are better word counters out there.

I try to have fun with my projects, thus I also played with Cover art concepts for the two novels HERE.

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Now, here we are, November 1, 2015. Per my usual, I’ve not written, plotted, outlined, or even decided on anything yet. Someone just told me I should finish the stuff I have open. By finish, they mean write novels based on those ideas, characters, and current plots.

Let me do a quick review of stuff I originally started with the intention of eventually expanding into novels. Here they are in no particular order.

Well, some order; the first thing is an ongoing novel I started in 2005 (read about it HERE). Since it’s not finished and it appears on my blog, this has no chance of getting published unless I do it myself.

My first dragon story (HERE) Unspoiled Offerings: This has the potential for a much longer arc, and have come close to picking it up again. The only thing that held me back is that I thought the concept might be a bit overdone. I won’t discuss it further because it would ruin the story for anyone wanting to read it.

My second dragon storyline (HERE andHERE) Ancient My Love: were I to continue any of my open stories, this is a strong contender.

My Designated story (about magic and stuff). There are three installments HERE, HERE, and HERE: I like this plot and have ideas on moving it forward. It makes this also a strong contender for NNWM3.

My  elfen offerings (the Medoran History stories) HERE and HERE: These are complete offerings but can easily be expanded to a larger arc (after all, they have ‘History’ in the titles). I like the character dynamics a whole lot, and the concept of half-breed elves/humans and elves/orcs holds my interest.

All of the above are things I could easily expand. Also, things I’ve since closed (by writing a short story) could be expanded, namely The Shirt, Nancy, Shift, Timeline, and Hens (and I’m leaving a few out – N.E.O., Observed (not yet closed)).

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My strongest contender for a novel is probably my The Blood concept. Torin is the first character introduced with his backstory setting up the world.

There are probably more ideas I set up in short stories and that I have now forgotten.

Of course, I liked last year’s NNWM novel about Hybrids and Mechs. Some might remember I had another contender (HERE), but it seems too similar to last year’s.

So, after all that, what am I going with?

Beats me. I’ll start typing later on tonight or tomorrow. We’ll find out together.

And now, a photo . . . three, actually, all variations of a frost pattern on a window.

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