'tis the time for Nanowrimo
I can feel the seasons changing. It is a transformation I thrive for. I love the gentle caress of the autumn winds, the crisp air and the scent of decay. Days pass until my body seems to throb with anticipation for the white of winter; the howling winds and the fresh snow crunching underneath my combat boots that is notorious of Canada.
I cannot wait until November, when my third journey through NaNoWriMo begins. Already I anticipate the feeling of warmth of heavy blankets tucked around my body and my fingers, numb with cold, eagerly typing until at last I reach 50,000 words. I can taste the green tea that gets me through each cold and depressing day, I can practically feel my novel living inside of me, eager to get out.
My NaNoWriMo novel for the year of 2006 is a love story. Not a romance, no, but a tale of three souls trying to find themselves against the backdrop of fame. I call it Bittersweet after the Apocalyptica song which includes a duet between Finland’s finest; Ville Valo and Lauri Ylönen. If you have never heard the song before I will explain briefly:
Ville is involved in a relationship with a woman who has “turned into his curse.” He wants to end things between them but something is holding him back. Lauri is in love with the same woman and wishes to enter in a relationship with her. Both sing their contrasting emotions, "I’m giving up the ghost of live, in the shadows cast on devotion,” “She is the one that I adore, creed of my silent suffocation,” but join in to sing their same conclusion, “Break this bittersweet spell on me, lost in the arms of destiny.”
That story is the core of my novel, but the roles have been changed to suit my needs. The lady Bittersweet has been distorted and reborn in the form of Dave; a singer of the folk rock/psychedelic/gothic band The Winter of '65 (named as a tribute to Canada’s finest; the Band) who has become jaded by the torrent of fame. Ville has become Anouk; a woman born to Montreal with albinism and a grace seen by no other. Lauri has become Kurt; a woman after Kurt Cobain’s heart, who has a soul filled with such empathy that it has begun to destroy her.
Together they weave a tale of devastation and of love. Seen through the eyes of the model-girlfriend and the empathic-fan, my novel will transcend the glamour of fame and show the evil of it; the drugs and the addiction and the eventual, and almost complete, ruin of a soul.
As for the location of my NanoNovel, I have chosen to write about Canada. I feel this connection somehow to my land that I’ve never felt before and I want to capture these feelings in a novel. I want to write about the Canadian music scene; the Canadian Dream, and the emotions that arise as a group of friends and bandmates travel the length of the Canadian highways.
I have my Nanowrimo soundtrack ready: it is a blend of the distinctly Canadian Sam Roberts, Neil Young and the Band. In the midst of the psychedelia and the folk rock is a mixture organic and symphonic sounds: Sarah Brightman, the Cure, Apocalyptica, Dead Can Dance, Hans Zimmerman, Nightwish, AFI, HIM, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack - all the bands and composers that I relate with winter and the solitude that comes with writing a novel in thirty days.
I cannot wait until November, when my third journey through NaNoWriMo begins. Already I anticipate the feeling of warmth of heavy blankets tucked around my body and my fingers, numb with cold, eagerly typing until at last I reach 50,000 words. I can taste the green tea that gets me through each cold and depressing day, I can practically feel my novel living inside of me, eager to get out.
My NaNoWriMo novel for the year of 2006 is a love story. Not a romance, no, but a tale of three souls trying to find themselves against the backdrop of fame. I call it Bittersweet after the Apocalyptica song which includes a duet between Finland’s finest; Ville Valo and Lauri Ylönen. If you have never heard the song before I will explain briefly:
Ville is involved in a relationship with a woman who has “turned into his curse.” He wants to end things between them but something is holding him back. Lauri is in love with the same woman and wishes to enter in a relationship with her. Both sing their contrasting emotions, "I’m giving up the ghost of live, in the shadows cast on devotion,” “She is the one that I adore, creed of my silent suffocation,” but join in to sing their same conclusion, “Break this bittersweet spell on me, lost in the arms of destiny.”
That story is the core of my novel, but the roles have been changed to suit my needs. The lady Bittersweet has been distorted and reborn in the form of Dave; a singer of the folk rock/psychedelic/gothic band The Winter of '65 (named as a tribute to Canada’s finest; the Band) who has become jaded by the torrent of fame. Ville has become Anouk; a woman born to Montreal with albinism and a grace seen by no other. Lauri has become Kurt; a woman after Kurt Cobain’s heart, who has a soul filled with such empathy that it has begun to destroy her.
Together they weave a tale of devastation and of love. Seen through the eyes of the model-girlfriend and the empathic-fan, my novel will transcend the glamour of fame and show the evil of it; the drugs and the addiction and the eventual, and almost complete, ruin of a soul.
As for the location of my NanoNovel, I have chosen to write about Canada. I feel this connection somehow to my land that I’ve never felt before and I want to capture these feelings in a novel. I want to write about the Canadian music scene; the Canadian Dream, and the emotions that arise as a group of friends and bandmates travel the length of the Canadian highways.
I have my Nanowrimo soundtrack ready: it is a blend of the distinctly Canadian Sam Roberts, Neil Young and the Band. In the midst of the psychedelia and the folk rock is a mixture organic and symphonic sounds: Sarah Brightman, the Cure, Apocalyptica, Dead Can Dance, Hans Zimmerman, Nightwish, AFI, HIM, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack - all the bands and composers that I relate with winter and the solitude that comes with writing a novel in thirty days.