Six days away from NaNoWriMo! I am really looking forward to it. This will be my third year participating. Year one I wrote just over 12k words, year two was somewhere between 15k and 20k I think, but this year, I am shooting to win. I have two years and a finished story behind me, so I think I can do it.
This years story is actually going to be the sequel to my first NaNo story (that is still unfinished), Rogue (Maybe it will get a real title when I finish it). As I am going over my old notes and making new ones for this story, I am glad I never finished Rogue. I am making so many adjustments to some of the characters and the overall time line the first one would have needed to be rewritten. I think the direction I am going now with the overall story is better than where it would have gone if I finished book one like I had intended. I had a half dozen or so ideas spinning around my head as possible stories that could happen to the trio from Rogue (Gibson, Anne, and Neal), and I have been building on, pulling apart, adding to, and altering those ideas since before I even started the first one. I ended up selecting two of them and decided they are going to run concurrently.
Anne's story is getting the most attention right now as I am writing my notes. She was sent to Saramis to track down someone who committed atrocities almost 20 years ago. Anne was raised with this singular purpose, but the longer she stays in Saramis trying to uncover his past, the more she wants to hide from her own and start over. Meanwhile, Neal is trying to discover what she is up to and trying to make sure she doesn't do anything she can't come back from.
Gibson's story is going to be a little different in tone. Rogue was his story, he was tasked with retrieving an object and he did. Everyone else saw this as his destiny, but to him, it was just a job that was important to those he cared about, so he did it. In this story, he is going to be playing second fiddle to his father, who Gibson has only ever known as the town drunk. The Druid King has asked his father to do some task I have yet to conjure up, but it is really a smokescreen to put him and his companions in the right place at the right time for the Druid King to expand his power and his flock.
Anyways, I am off to make some tea. Then am back to the notes. Oh, and I am going to try and be a little more proactive on my word count updates, especially via twitter.
