NaNoWriMo Ramblings
Some random entries from my current NaNo notebook (residing on my Z, of course):
Going with the Snowflake writing process… first step:
One line synopsis of the story I’m gonna write.
A high school girl discovers she’s Satan’s daughter, and now daddy has to save her from some overzealous angels. Oh, and did I mention that daddy quit his job a few decades ago, erased his own memories, and now works as a private detective among the humans?
Okay, well, that wasn’t really one line, but it gives me a good starting point. This novel is gonna be absolute dreck, but at least NaNo gives me an excuse to get on with it and write the damn thing.. I can sacrifice this crappy plotline to the gods of NaNo.
Characters:
1. Elspeth (nephilim): Just your average 17 year old high school senior, a bit smarter and more practical than most, but still pretty average. She’s pretty, without being stunning, smart, without being brilliant, and friendly, without being outgoing. A nice enough girl, one would suppose, but nothing earth-shattering about her… for now.
She lives with her adoptive parents, and never knew her birth parents. A living cliche, she was dropped off in a basket in front of an orphanage when she was a newborn.. and adopted by her current parents less than a month later. While her parents treat her well enough, she’s never really felt that they love her. Oh, they care, well enough, but she’s no more their daughter than they are her birth parents. They get along well enough, and she’s grateful to them for taking care of her.











November 3rd, 2005 at 3:50 pm
[...] So, over the past couple of years that I’ev been keeping this lil’ blog going, I’ve made several attempts to complete NaNoWriMo, often to disastrous results. So, this year, I wasn’t even bothering (you’ll notice, it’s already started and I had held off on posting about it till now). But then I heard about NaDruWriNi: National Drunken Writing Night. Now that , I might be able to handle. [...]