So, I failed at writing for NaNoWriMo in November BUT I have decided to participate in the slightly less daunting Camp NaNo. I have set my word count goal at 10 000 instead of 50 000. I think, for me, this is much more reachable. I missed writing the first couple of days because I was out in the wilderness on a family camping trip but I got right at it when I got back and wrote 888 (almost triple my "needed average per day.") I am now up to 2 386 words (todays goal was 2 258.)
Rather than doing a "novel" I am using this camp as a character development activity for another story as well as some writing for said story. So far a have written the inciting force, a series of letters from the past and two "first meetings" between characters (both romantically involved.)
The story itself centers around an "apocalypse," or devastation at the very least, caused by cosmic events. It isn't necessarily scientific but within reason enough. One of my professors always taught us that when you read you have to follow the rules of the author no the rules of your own knowledge. the author needs to stay within their own logic, yes, but not within the logic of current technology.
I may upload an excerpt soon so don't stray from here for too long!
Jerr
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