Nanowrimo

[skull_bearer]

To break a winning trend, I think I will abstain for Nano this year. Yes, I still have AIoM to finish, but to be honest I don't think there enough left to write to justify a full Nano. I've dragged the story to roughly November 1944, which only leaves me two months to write until Auschwitz gets liberated, prompting the whole endgame sequence and the last chapter, which I've had written in my head for the last two years. Then bomchakalaka, its all over bar the editing. Which fucking hell there will be a lot of.

One nice thing, after all the editing I've done so far, I discovered that bar a rather rubbishy sub-plot that served no purpose and was eliminated to much rejoicing, the story was a lot better than I remembered. The whole OMG I'm writing a holocaust soap-opera I hate myself was probably just the writing blues. I cut out a few superfluous things about the characters (a shame, I was getting quite into them) to keep the story focused, and eliminated any use of Mengele's actual name. There was one part in which the characters dwelled dangerously long on him, but it's to be expected and since they didn't do it again, it was ok.

So yeah, no Nano, I need to focus on this, then hopefully I can free myself for something else, like that really warped story about me if I was a witch and evil, or that one about zombie and tanks. Or just a Sherlock Holmes fanfic because I really need a new fanfic project.

Comments

[linguini17.livejournal.com]

You are so productive and awesome. Yay for writing fu!
Also? "bomchakalaka" is a blatant excuse for me to use one of my favorite icons.
*points to icon*

:D

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been criminally neglecting this. To be fair, this is because I was doing a lot of translation and applying to Royal Holloway, but Oblivion and Prototype also share blame ;p

[almightyspaz.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, with zombies.

Oh wait, that exists.