Went shopping with the folks again. About the only thing I got other than groceries was a package of toilet paper that I saw on display as I was just getting started (since I was running out of ammunition at home). Spent close to 200 bucks and I didn't go to Barnes and Noble like that other time I was in town, so I didn't have to worry about ( Read more... )

Anyway, despite what I said earlier, it looks like I'm dropping the warlock story, since all my noveling focus is apparently on The Silver Bullet. I've got the barest skeleton of an outline that consists of a number of ideas for big scenes, including a wildass chase in Nora's Mustang, and Jason and Nora teaming up for a Big Damn Rescue (why, yes, I ( Read more... )

So I've got four days to go before Nano is slated to begin. I'm considering dropping the warlock story until I get done with this one, due both to my FUCKING NECK, and the fact that most of my mental time is being spent preparing to write The Silver Bullet.

Anyway, in another lark intended to prep me for the next month's crazy, I went ahead and ( Read more... )

Finally have a name for the Jason, Travis and Nora story: The Silver Bullet.

It's named after the name that I came up with for Nora's silver Mustang, since she and her transport work are going to be a big part of the story. It also has the added benefit of hinting toward gunplay as well, since there's going to be a lot of bullets flying in this ( Read more... )

...and I still haven't come up with the title or the damned plot. All I know is that Jason, Travis and Nora are going to be together again. I have fleshed out most of the major characters since my last writing. Jason and Travis I had already fleshed out, but Nora, a very important character in the novel, is finally taking shape in my head.

I didn't ( Read more... )

All right. So I've basically lost interest with the dystopia thing, like I do with a lot of my projects after a while. The reason? It seems that Jason Alexander, Travis Cole and Nora Wilder, my characters from my last two attempts at doing Nanowrimo, have decided that they want to be in yet another goddamn story, and this time around, it looks like ( Read more... )