And So It Ends...

Well, then. I had planned to blog the entire way through NaNoWriMo, but it turned out I simply didn't have enough time to write and blog both. I finished this afternoon, though, after sitting down with Write or Die for an hour and pounding out 4031 words. Before heading off to work with three-year-olds. Needless to say, I'm bushed.

It's a relief to be finished with this project (even though the ending wrapped up a little more neatly than I had originally planned) because having a workable draft of something is always good. I'm really pleased with the potential that it has-- I would never submit this anywhere without extensive edits, but it's certainly a good start.

I'm also relieved to be finished because it means that I can start on my December project (or at least, I can when finals are over)-- editing and rewriting and hopefully coming up with a final, shoppable manuscript of Summer of Betrayal, the first in my Camlain series. And the sooner I can have a shoppable draft of that, the sooner I can see if people want it, and the sooner I can get started on Autumn of Discord, which I've been making notes on for quite some time now. My fingers are itching to get back to this universe. My characters are screaming at me to write about them, damn it.

I love that feeling.

More on Camlain later.

NaNoWriMo: Day 3

As in, the beginning of day three. I have 3383 words currently, most of that done on day 1 but not much done on day 2, since I had a massive poetry project due. The plot has also completely changed, as is wont to happen with me. Instead of my insane Christmas plot (not thrown away, but put in storage) I have finally decided to do my reappropriation of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

Our heroine is not really the typical princess of Disney's fairy tales-- instead, she is a sullen teenager who attends public school (where no one knows she is a princess, as it is in a neighboring country) and has an antagonistic relationship with her betrothed prince (who doesn't know he is her betrothed). At this point, I'm not quite sure where this is going except that Rosie, our princess, is very rebellious-- only, the people in her country don't quite give her the reaction she wants, instead finding it adorable, or cute-- and so the climax will (read: should) come with the pricking of her finger on the spindle, thus fulfilling the curse, being purposeful and her ultimate act of rebellion.

This is the plan, anyway. We all know that with NaNoWriMo things don't usually turn out the way they are planned.

I'll leave you with this. Every time I work on a new project, I tend to make a playlist of songs reminiscent of things or people involved in that novel to help me along while I'm writing. This year's is coming slowly, but I can already tell you Rosie has a theme song-- "Hot Mess", by Cobra Starship. Oh yeah. Download it. Listen to it. Love it.