Sunday, November 2, 2014

NaNoWriMo - Day 1


Today was the first day of National Novel Writing Month (or perhaps I should say yesterday was the first day, as it is now well past midnight).  I was hoping to write 5k words to get ahead and stay firmly on track to meet my target goal of 100k, and somehow I miraculously succeeded.  I'm still not sure how it happened.  At six o'clock this evening I was sitting on the recliner in my bedroom, laptop propped up on my knees, staring hopelessly at a blank page.  I had no idea what I was going to write and yet, at the end of the day, I pulled out more than 5k words.

For the past few weeks, I've been trying to come up with the perfect story for this year's NaNo.  I think I've driven nearly everyone around me crazy, fretting over it.  The only solid idea I had was to write a sequel to last year's NaNo novel, Taming the Savage, but I was reluctant to do that because the story I had in mind was just too dark.  And the last thing I wanted to write this year was something dark.  And yet, nothing better came along, so here I am, several thousand words into a story I didn't really want to write, hoping that I can somehow make it through the entire month.

Right now, the working title of the new novel is Captive Princess.  It sounds almost like a fairytale, which I can assure you, it is not.  Sixteen pages in and I'm already dealing with kidnapping, slavery, and bondage.  Not really the lighthearted story I was looking to write this year.  But for now, I will persevere because I really do want to make my word count and maybe, somehow, something good will actually come out of this novel.

Total word count for Day One: 5,071

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