Ready, Set, Write!

This is going to be a picture-less post (gasp!)

I've decided to attempt NaNoWriMo this year (that's National Novel Writing Month for anyone who might not be familiar with the acronym). That means my free time for November will be taken up largely by comics and writing.

NaNoWriMo is something that I've been wanting to do for at least the past couple of years, but never felt I had the time due to one thing or another. While it's debatable whether or not I actually have enough time this year, I've decided that I don't really want to put it off yet another year. And while I could just pick a month and do my own personal NaNoWriMo, it just doesn't have the same degree of motivation.

And so, after about a week of writing, I am currently on track, up to about 11 700 total words. At this point, I'm fairly confident that I should have no problem meeting the 50 000 quota by the end of the month so long as I can continue setting aside sufficient time to write.

I'm enjoying the writing so far. This marks the first significant creative writing I've done in the past few years that is not FASS related. I have a basic premise in mind for the story and now more-or-less where I'm going, but there's no detailed outline. In a way, it's similar to how I was approaching the Kyoujo RPG. And so far, at about 20 pages in, several unexpected things have happened in the story - either things that I hadn't foreseen at the outset or things that have unfolded differently than I had original thought they might. But that's ok! I think that's part of the fun of writing.

The story itself is meant to be a humourous fantasy story which combines original elements with parody. The basic idea is one that's been rattling around at the back of my head for several years, since the year I spent working in Toronto, if I recall correctly.

Anyway! That's all I have to say about that at the moment. Still trying to decide if I want to post the actual story to this blog, or perhaps just some of the better snippets.

Freak Out,
-TFitC