Countdown Approaching End~

Only a couple of days until the start of NaNoWriMo. I just can't wait to get started. The story idea is getting more detailed, I'm drawing more and more pictures to go with it, and I'm already thinking of which scenes I want to write first and how to tie them together and then divide into chapters. All in all, the only problem is the time I still have to wait.

Well, that and the other ideas. Teeny tiny oneshot bunnies would be more than welcome, as I could spend the waiting time writing them, but instead I get epic multichapter bunnies that breed and split into more and more bunnies. I have two or three fanfic ideas with complicated backgrounds, plenty of flashbacks, chracter development, complex original characters, and very unlikely relationships. One threatens to be at least a dozen chapters long, while the others tell me they would prefer to be trilogies. I don't have time for trilogies right now.

...At least, since they're not my NaNo, there's no reason I can't write down certain lines as they pop into my mind... like "I always loved you. I was just never in love with you. I could have made you happy if you hadn't asked for that."

Also, how many different pieces of jewellery can one make with the same pattern/symbol? Hairpins, earrings, bracelet, necklace/charm, rings, maybe anklet -- anything else? I've rather abandoned the thought of keychains or mobile phone straps, since the jewellery in question is supposed to be at least semi-precious -- the kind a fairly wealthy father would give to his only daughter once a year. And is it too cruel to give a bitter, jealous wife a name meaning "happy"?

Just Waiting to Start~

NaNoWriMo starts in a week.

To those curious or still unclear on the matter, NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual challenge for semi-sane writers everywhere. The goal? Write a story of at least 50,000 words during the month of November.

The problem? I cannot wait.

If this were the only problem, I might be able to cope. I have an outline of over 7,000 words, several pictures, notes, and other such plans. I've been struggling with the idea for a month now; I can do it for another week.

If not for the other ideas that are starting to infest my brain. Like the sci-fi universe I've never quite given enough attention to.

Therefore, to give these ideas a place to go play in, and to keep track of my fifth slow descent into the madness that is NaNoWriMo, I'm finally starting the writing blog I've been planning for quite a while. You may expect ever-changing character profiles, random or deeply interconnected scenes, bits of dialogue, worldbuilding, and plot outlines in several universes, moaning about a writer's block, and semi-coherent rants at 3 AM.

Or lists of various ways to kill off a person with a knitted, stuffed toy bear. When it comes to plot bunnies, I'm not that picky.