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NaNoWriMo 2019 | |
October 31st, 2019 | |
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This year I'm going to participate in my own way in NaNoWriMo [0]. | |
I will not be attempting a whole novel or even their on-pace daily | |
word count. It's not for me, though I wish I were that prolific. | |
No, instead I will be working on finishing some things. | |
[0] NaNoWriMo | |
First up: Emergence [1] | |
This is a speculative fiction about the birth of an AI that | |
I began a while back. I enjoyed some good progress on it and have | |
been satisfied reading back and what came out (rare). Sadly, it | |
fell off my priority list and has been sitting there begging for | |
some love. | |
Since this is only a short story, it's not the same level of | |
investment required as a whole novel. I've already got some good | |
development in place and notes on where I want it to go. Time to | |
finish it! | |
[1] Emergence | |
Next: Trobairitz [2] | |
Over on Cosmic Voyage [3] I have a new "ship" in planning. This | |
one is actually an interstellar group of women storytellers who | |
are hired to share the stories from various cultures. The format | |
for it will be very different than we've seen so far on Cosmic in | |
that each post is a complete, self-contained story. | |
The first story that will be published is related to the Oleander | |
[4] storyline, and shows a bit of the aftermath of that mission. | |
I hope to have that first post done in November as well. | |
[2] Trobairitz | |
[3] Cosmic Voyage | |
[4] Oleander | |
Finally: Melchizedek [5] | |
If you're following along in my main Cosmic Voyage storyline | |
you'll know that something pretty weird just went down. As excited | |
as I am to explore that, there's a bit of a time delay involved. | |
So instead I need to switch my focus back to the other crew | |
sitting on the planets around Beta Hydri. It's always a joy to | |
write Stephanie Janssen, so she'll probably get another log next, | |
but there's also an ignored plotline I need to chip away at on | |
planet 4 with Hildar Simms. The poor guy has spent 90 days in | |
quarantine! Now that he's out, fun gets to begin. | |
[5] Melchizedek | |
I don't know that I'll get the to all this before the month ends, | |
though. We have our first visitors coming around the 20th. They'll | |
be staying with us until December, so I only get about 2/3rds of | |
the month to write. I hope it's enough to finish Emergence at the | |
very least. That's the minimum bar I want to set for myself. | |
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So what about you? Are any of you planning on doing anything | |
special for NaNoWriMo? Anyone actively following Melchizedek? Have | |
anything you're dying to read more about? |