I might actually finish NaNoWriMo this year.

[kadharonon]

I feel rather as if I'm cheating on the spirit of NaNoWriMo by the particular approach I'm taking to it, but if it means I'll finish for the first time ever, I'll take it

Comments

[3rdragon]

Hey, you have more words than I do right now, by a significant margin. That's worth something. Also, "the spirit of nano" is writing. Everything else is just details. I'm hardly following the letter of nano, either -- I was working on this story in October, and will likely still work on it in December. And if I run out of bits I can write this month, I'll drop it and pick up something else, possibly the magic red bull story

[kadharonon]

I have not actually written much in the way of actual story, though. Like, not ever as far as writing dialogue and specific actions people take within certain scenes, at least not for most of it. I just got way, way too invested in Tatterhood's mother, by pretty much asking the following series of questions

[3rdragon]

I would read that story.

[kadharonon]

I think the end game is that Tatterhood manages to kill great grandpa troll king, she and her sister decide to leave and go on adventures, and their mom realizes that there's a power vacuum, says "Screw this," and goes off to be queen of the trolls.

At which point her husband goes to his older sister (who he shoved out of the line of succession by making the treaty with the troll king) and says "Shit, my wife did all the actual work in this kingdom despite me being a dick to her all the time, and now she's in charge of an army of trolls," and his sister's response is basically "You done messed up, boy," and he's like "BUT WHAT DO I DO I AM USELESS," and she's like "I'd suggest groveling." AND IT WILL BE SATISFYING.

[3rdragon]

Also also also, have you READ Gwendollyn's plot summary?

[kadharonon]

Right, but at least in her case it's at least masquerading as something with an overall plot that contains it, and she can probably get a lot out of character commentary on the stories told by other characters...

[vorindi]

Are you two arguing over the meaning of Nano?

(also TROLLS!)

(there are no trolls in my Nano.)

[kadharonon]

OF COURSE WE ARE.

(I am not sure if trolls is the best term, but it's easier to say than "goat-like people with magical powers who live in caves in the mountains and ride giant goats around". Though calling them that would have significantly boosted my word count.)