NaNo fever seems to have come early this year.
This is from my intro posted to the nanowrimo communities, but for those of you that don't read them or haven't tuned in yet, here's the plan. Or, rather, lack thereof. I'll set up a nano filter in October for those of you that want to read what I write about writing.
I've discovered as much as love to neurotically plan my novel, it takes the fun of writing it away for me, so this year, I'm not doing any plotting beyond the premise. Instead, I'm taking my neurotic planning out on my fantasy novels that almost never go anywhere (I write fiction constantly, but NaNo is pretty much the only time I finish any of the projects I start).
The premise is that my main character is a historian/translator of an obscure dead language and she is kidnapped by antiquities dealers to help them loot archaeological sites and her brother has to look for her.
I'm not yet sure if I'm going to set it in an historically accurate late 19th-century world, or in a pseudo-Victorian fantasy world. Either way, I'll be exploring themes of Victorian, imperialist culture and historical ownership. I'm sort of a "subversively Eurocentric" historian, dealing with disenfranchised groups in my education (medieval) and work (19th-century), so this will tie in with my interests in 19th century science's affects on class and social hierarchy.
I've discovered as much as love to neurotically plan my novel, it takes the fun of writing it away for me, so this year, I'm not doing any plotting beyond the premise. Instead, I'm taking my neurotic planning out on my fantasy novels that almost never go anywhere (I write fiction constantly, but NaNo is pretty much the only time I finish any of the projects I start).
The premise is that my main character is a historian/translator of an obscure dead language and she is kidnapped by antiquities dealers to help them loot archaeological sites and her brother has to look for her.
I'm not yet sure if I'm going to set it in an historically accurate late 19th-century world, or in a pseudo-Victorian fantasy world. Either way, I'll be exploring themes of Victorian, imperialist culture and historical ownership. I'm sort of a "subversively Eurocentric" historian, dealing with disenfranchised groups in my education (medieval) and work (19th-century), so this will tie in with my interests in 19th century science's affects on class and social hierarchy.