Novel Month II · 2:00am Dec 5th, 2023
Alright, so in retrospect, I didn't even get near the train.
I think in retrospect, I thought about the train, but I never really saw it, if even I felt it. I saw the station through dirty windows as I stood a couple miles away and three stories up in a computer lab, but I never so much as thought about going there. Instead, I turned around and started towards the mountains. What ended up happening to whoever may or may not have been on this imaginary train of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) hasn't caught up to me until just now, when I realized the journey I took was pretty well disconnected from it.
Nonetheless, I did take a little hike!
I did a tiny bit of brainstorming (by which I mean a tiny bit of taking other people's ideas), and the concept I tried to flesh out had to do with "what if Luna had a Library book that was overdue?
By a thousand year banishment?
And also,
"What if everything Nightmare Moon had done was covered up, but was now being re-released to the public?"
I feel like there's something sparking between those two ideas, but I can't tell exactly what. How are they related? What do I do with them?
I didn't stop to figure it out before I started writing! I just did whatever seemed interesting to me at the time. What came out after a month's worth of semi consistent daily 15 minute writing sessions was the following!
I get the feeling I could've written forever and not gone anywhere.
And based on that feeling, I think next time I write something, I'm going to start working on it by writting a bigging, middle and end! And in order to do that, I'm going to actually learn how to make an ending!
