Summer NaNo!
Since my Novembers are kind of spoken for for the next two years, I decided that I'd do my own NaNo this summer. My goal is to write 1000 words a day through June, July and as much of August as is needed to finish a draft (hopefully it'll be around wrapping up time then). I meant to actually start at the beginning of June rather than towards the middle of it, but petitioning took more out of me than expected. So it goes.
This will be number six. It actually has a decent working title too - The Queens' Men. I haven't actually decided on the placement of the apostrophe - it'll be either Queen's or Queens' (there are three queens in the story). For some reason I got the idea that I wanted to write about a grunt race - like the orcs in Lord of the Rings. I can't think of exactly where the idea came from, but it stuck in my head.
When I went back to school I'd just finished the edits on Light in the Groves and was still in a writing kind of place. I got an idea on the bus to write a story from the perspective of the guards - kind of like a cross between Terry Pratchet's Nightwatch books and the more political kind of fantasy that has been kind of hit or miss for me. I've been jotting down ideas for the last few months. International Law and rewatching Babylon 5 gave me some great ideas for the world, and as usual, there's been stuff going on in my life that I want to work in.
After LitG, I'm going to try a male main character with only two major supporting characters - one male and one female. It was too easy for the characters in LitG to become too much like me. Maybe writing male will help get away from that. I'm trying first person too, though I'm nervous that I'm going to change my mind halfway through and want to rewrite in third person. First person is so limiting, and getting a voice right is tricky. We'll see how it works out!
This will be number six. It actually has a decent working title too - The Queens' Men. I haven't actually decided on the placement of the apostrophe - it'll be either Queen's or Queens' (there are three queens in the story). For some reason I got the idea that I wanted to write about a grunt race - like the orcs in Lord of the Rings. I can't think of exactly where the idea came from, but it stuck in my head.
When I went back to school I'd just finished the edits on Light in the Groves and was still in a writing kind of place. I got an idea on the bus to write a story from the perspective of the guards - kind of like a cross between Terry Pratchet's Nightwatch books and the more political kind of fantasy that has been kind of hit or miss for me. I've been jotting down ideas for the last few months. International Law and rewatching Babylon 5 gave me some great ideas for the world, and as usual, there's been stuff going on in my life that I want to work in.
After LitG, I'm going to try a male main character with only two major supporting characters - one male and one female. It was too easy for the characters in LitG to become too much like me. Maybe writing male will help get away from that. I'm trying first person too, though I'm nervous that I'm going to change my mind halfway through and want to rewrite in third person. First person is so limiting, and getting a voice right is tricky. We'll see how it works out!