Last year I'd planned to do a story based on one of my LOTRO characters, my captain Miffy Ayrhedd and her herald-pet Chad (who has since been renamed Ben in-game). Then at the last minute I abandoned all the pre-planning I'd done featuring the pair of them, and went with another idea instead which, predictably, fizzled out on me all too soon. Bleah ( Read more... )

...in the last week before NaNoWriMo a couple of totally new characters popped into my head. Don't even have names for them, but they're being very insistent that I tell their story. It's a fantasy piece (well, of course!) and the two main characters are an oversized human mercenary and an elf he inadvertently rescues after a mission he's on falls ( Read more... )

Okay, so I finally gritted my teeth this week and sat down with my notes on how to do the snowflake-method-thing and started fleshing out my novel idea. I'm liking the method so far, it was a bit disconcerting at first to sit down and actually, you know, plan out a story instead of doing the by-the-seat-of-my-pants stuff (with occasional planned ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm signing up for it again.

( My mission, if I choose to accept it... )

The fifth thing that makes me happy is writing. It's just some pretty soap-opera-ish fan fiction, based on the characters I control the lives of in a game called The Sims 2, and is posted on the storytelling forums of a sims-related website, The Sims Resource.

( Blither blather... )

I've officially signed up on the NaNoWriMo site. I too will be attempting to churn out a 50,000 word manuscript during November. Ack! Gah!

Mind you my monthly word count  probably broke that several times while I was writing my Soup Legacy, so it should be doable. It's just the whole "I have a setting and some characters in my head, but no frigging ( Read more... )