Progress (or lack therof) report! · 11:11pm Nov 11th, 2012
So yeah. This NaNoWriMo thing.
Just hit the 10k mark on this thing I'm working on. Which, y'know, is a good number, but according to the '1667 words a day' goal, I should be at over 18k words already. EHEH.
Doesn't help that I haven't written anything for the last two days; I've been busy with work, and then, well, being sociable outside of work. Fun times, but not conducive to this writing thing. Still, I'm writing NOW (sort of, I'm just sort of venting here as a pre-writing exercise to get my fingers flitting this way and that). But! I'm hammering some stuff out right now, so I'm making steady progress. I think the biggest problem I'm having at this point is a matter of making the narrator's voice really 'pop.' So far, she's a little wry and sarcastic, and pretty tough to deal with the various situations she does, but I haven't yet found something to distinguish her from the slew of other Anita Blake-esque Urban Fantasy protagonist ladies. At least she doesn't wear leather pants, so that's a start? She also likes cheap beer and obscure indie music too, but...yeah, I'll have to figure something out.
In any case, 'cause I feel like sharing, here's my first-draft 'blurb' for the work, in case anyone's curious as to what's keeping me away from pony stories currently!
Need a few pints of blood, no questions asked? Sanctified, silver-plated bullets? Bottled ectoplasm? Rare, madness-inducing texts? Genuine fairy-dust? Jude Ellis will hook you up...for a price.
Jude is a fixer for St. Louis' supernatural community, because your typical shambling horror can't exactly go out grocery shopping. But when a typical delivery goes terribly wrong, Jude is left ankle-deep in corpses without an alibi. Jude doesn't have long to clear her name, and while she does so, she's got to deal with shambling horrors, lycanthropic motivational speakers, ex boyfriends, and a robot who wants to be a wizard.
And those are the ones that DON'T want to kill her.
So yeah. Back to the word processor I go!
Oh jeezm this sounds like fun. Best of luck! Keep in mind too the idea is not to overwhelm youtself. if you're not able to do as much as they suggest don't stress.
Ok, robot who wants to be a wizard is an incredibly interesting concept and I'd like to know more