nanowrimo nanowrimo

Getting all excited about it now that the forums are wiped and active again! I'm thinking of writing my novel in Spanish this year ... I'm not precisely competent in the language, but I think that it would be a good way to practice writing rapidly in Spanish. And to expand my vocabulary, which is tiny. My main concern is that it'll take too long. I barely finished on time last year writing in English, if I remember correctly. It might also make it more difficult to write in class, which is how I've gotten a lot of my NaNo done in years past. (Although, alas! All of my classes this semester are actually engaging, so I  end up paying attention the whole time.

I mean I could theoretically stop wasting so much time on the internet ...

No, seriously, how much more would I get done if I spent 50% less time on tumblr/reddit? (I do not count reading fanfiction as wasting time. It's READING, for chrissakes.)

The End of Days

So quite a bit has changed since my original brainstorming of this story, but the essential things remain the same.Chapter titles are mostly going to be replaced, because the ones I had were more like "Look at me! Look at what a special fucking snowflake I am!" which is totally the point of this story but don't be obvious, Sherlock.

I've also figured out a different ending, based a little bit on the story about Tanwen reading Torchwood fanfiction, and based a little bit on As Through A Glass and Darkly, (which was aside from the obvious racial insensitivity was fantastic by the way) only not so much of a letdown, I hope. All I'm going to say is that I fucking hate reboot endings with a passion, and there has got to be some serious emotional payoff for it to work. It worked in Keys to the Kingdom because there were consequences and a sense of immediate closure. It sort of worked in Cirque du Freak because the story still happened, and also because it got so fucking weird after a certain point. It did not work for me so much in As Through A Glass and Darkly because I did not get to see the emotional payoff, and there wouldn't be one for the characters in the forms that I knew them. It did not work for me in Mostly Harmless because it erased all previous emotional trauma. And if Miggy were not writing a sequel at this very moment, the ending of Death and All His Friends would have had me throwing things because it was so emotionally unfulfilling, and hit the reset button so thoroughly.

So anyway, I think I have an idea that can include the reset button and still reward the emotional journey of the novel.