I've decided that there's basically no way I'm going to keep up with a whole bunch of creative journals... one for each original story and one for fanfiction, another for graphics -- no. So I'm just sticking pretty much everything creative in here, and personal rants and the like will go in keptclose.

Not that you really care...

Just got back from a weekend at Aze's, was fun. We're planning an avidgamers site. More on it later, I suppose.

I'll keep this entry as up-to-date as possible with my word count as I go. It's posted ahead, so check entries below it for other updates since I'll be backdating them.

Title: Somnion Blood Legends (something of a series)
Expected Word Count:
Dragon Scourge: 10 - 12k
On Wings of Eternal Light: 10 - 12k
Dragonsbane: 70 - 120k

Since this is my first real NaNo, I'm going to go with the lowest projected word count as my total.

Total: 90k

Dragon Scourge

15,241 / 10,000 (152.4%)

On Wings of Eternal Light

13,639 / 10,000 (136.4%)

Dragonsbane

61,605 / 70,000 (88.0%)

Total

90,053 / 90,000 (100.1%)

Working on: Dragonsbane
Words Added Today: --
Updated: November 30th @ 23.36

Oh. My. GOD.

I FINISHED.
Okay, so technically I just reached 90k. By Nano's validator. With 30 minutes to spare. I'm not done with Dragonsbane (quite), though I'm very close.

HOLY SHIT, though. IT'S TIME TO FUCKING CELEBRATE, YOU HEAR ME? CELEBRATE!!!

This is the third time I'm having to start a story for NaNoWriMo. No, not starting over, of course... that would be easier, dammit, because I would have it down by then how I need to start. Now I'm moving out of familiar territory. The novel is set centuries later and centers around completely different characters, so I'm really not sure how to begin.

I decided to just use Grey as my viewpoint character. As tempting as it is to write from both Grey and Kayden's perspectives -- and maybe Lena's too -- I think Grey's perspective is really the only one I need. He doesn't know all about Dragonsbane and Dragonsblood, so he'll sort of learn it as he goes along -- but he does know the basics about the war in the east, which could be helpful later. -sigh- For now I'll go with it.

Okay, I think I'm going to go with Grey being a sellsword. He lives at an inn -- whenever he's there, the inn's owner gives him a room for practically free and free meals in exchange for him acting like a rentacop, basically, for the inn. He breaks up brawls and such. He's a pretty big guy, too.

Which gives him a better reason for breaking up the fight between Kayden and the Dragonsbane-hired assassins. Maybe he's been away for awhile, or just out on the town, and he's on his way back to the inn in time for drinking hour (or brawl hour) when he sees the fight. I suppose Kayden could hire him as a sellsword, though not to kill... just so he doesn't seem like such a target because he's got this muscled bodyguard with him. We'll see how that goes.

Will do. Now to start... -sigh-

Part of this is already in a friend’s only entry from yesterday, but since this may be useful to others, I’m going to finish it in a public entry. Though I don’t know exactly how useful it will be seeing as NaNo has already begun in some places and is only about two hours away here. I’ll try to get some last minute interviews done with this once I’ve finished typing up the basic interview format, but not telling if I’ll manage it…

Note that this interview is meant to be malleable. If certain questions won’t work right with your characters, modify them a little bit. If you just can’t answer a question at all, you don’t have to, of course. If the answer to one question is also the answer to another, no need to repeat yourself, ‘course.

If it helps, write a little scene in answer to the questions. Even if you don’t think you need to, it’s good practice…

( Interview For Your Characters )

Okay, that’s all I’ve got for now. I may modify the test later with other stuff… If you have any suggestions or anything, let me know.

NaNoWriMo has begun.

Choosing working titles so I stop confusing/irritating myself.

FI: Aerlun (Eysuria universe): Inferior
Chars: Aerlun, Silk, Pick, Master Hashid, others to be named

Dragonsblood Legends I: Dragon Scourge
Chars: Delia Smith, Joras Smith, Balor Sworn, Zhon the dragon keeper, minors to be named
Dragonsblood Legends II: Dragon Wars
Chars: Liam Dragonsblood, Joras Smith, Mila Smith, others to be named
Dragonsblood: Dragonsbane
Chars: Kayden Dragonsblood/Harper, Roan "Grey" Steel, Selenas "Lena" Rain, Malakai "Zachariah" Lowe, Laurel Rose ("Rose"); possible others

...Yeah, I guess that's it.

I shall friends-lock most of my entries from here on out because most will deal with my writing for NaNo. If you're a NaNoer or just a fellow writer and you want to add me, feel free to do so. Comment here, preferably with a little bit about what you're writing or planning to write, and I'll add you back.

I may not add everything here -- I still have a touch of the writer's paranoia complex (oh no, you're out to steal my work, aren't you?!) -- but I'll still have fun using it to brainstorm.

( Currently )

And then there are random story ideas that aren't for NaNo, but don't belong in my Dragonsblood or Eysuria universes either. They're collected below.

( Random Story Ideas )

Status: Summaries complete; updated October 24 2oo5 to take out non-NaNo Eysuria and Dragonsblood content and move it to the proper journals.

I mostly made this journal for NaNoWriMo -- to join NaNoWriMo communities. I'm sure I'll modify it and sexy up the layout later, but for right now I'm too lazy to do that, and I should be doing schoolwork anyway. So. That'll come later.