![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I wrote 1,036 words of an original story today.
I am very excited about this story so far. It is named (tentatively) An Assassin's Game, and it's sort of a modern fantasy combined with a bit of murder mystery and some alternative world history and some cute love story between two friends that grew up together. It's about a boy who feels trapped by his believed legacy and a girl who has her own demons to fight, and the events -- both light and dark -- that will shape their lives together.
I have had the main character, Jonathan, in my head, ever since he first gave me the line:
"My name is Jonathan, and I am a bastard child."
I mean, how can a good back story not come out of that?
It took him quite a while to tell me where he came from, but during Study Hall today, the idea just came to me while I was surfing the NaNo boards, so I immediately proceeded to write it. I'm not quite sure where it's going, but I know it is going to be a good story. I don't know too much about Jonathan, but I know enough to start writing about him. He is in many ways the quintessential American teenager, but burdened with something he doesn't quite understand. He is not a typical hero -- just as my story ideas are never just typical. They all have some sort of twist and, though I haven't thought of this story's yet, I know it will have one.
That's just the sort of writer I am: my stories go in unexpected directions, or at least my original ones do.
The only thing I'm worried about is that now that I'm writing this story before NaNo, what am I going to write about during NaNo? I do have a month to think about it, but I want to have an idea before October 15. I'm sure I'll think about something, but until then, I am going to be a little anxious. All I have to do is to keep my eyes and ears open, and hopefully I'll think about something wonderful to write about. Am toying with the idea of doing something other than fantasy, but I've found with fantasy you have just so much more leeway, and it makes it easier to circumvent rules...
Anyway.
One of my goals this November is to write 100K. WIth all my homework this year, it's going to be pretty impossible to juggle homework, NaNo, and life in general, but I can do it. Somehow. I might go crazy, but then again, have I ever really been sane?
I am very excited about this story so far. It is named (tentatively) An Assassin's Game, and it's sort of a modern fantasy combined with a bit of murder mystery and some alternative world history and some cute love story between two friends that grew up together. It's about a boy who feels trapped by his believed legacy and a girl who has her own demons to fight, and the events -- both light and dark -- that will shape their lives together.
I have had the main character, Jonathan, in my head, ever since he first gave me the line:
"My name is Jonathan, and I am a bastard child."
I mean, how can a good back story not come out of that?
It took him quite a while to tell me where he came from, but during Study Hall today, the idea just came to me while I was surfing the NaNo boards, so I immediately proceeded to write it. I'm not quite sure where it's going, but I know it is going to be a good story. I don't know too much about Jonathan, but I know enough to start writing about him. He is in many ways the quintessential American teenager, but burdened with something he doesn't quite understand. He is not a typical hero -- just as my story ideas are never just typical. They all have some sort of twist and, though I haven't thought of this story's yet, I know it will have one.
That's just the sort of writer I am: my stories go in unexpected directions, or at least my original ones do.
The only thing I'm worried about is that now that I'm writing this story before NaNo, what am I going to write about during NaNo? I do have a month to think about it, but I want to have an idea before October 15. I'm sure I'll think about something, but until then, I am going to be a little anxious. All I have to do is to keep my eyes and ears open, and hopefully I'll think about something wonderful to write about. Am toying with the idea of doing something other than fantasy, but I've found with fantasy you have just so much more leeway, and it makes it easier to circumvent rules...
Anyway.
One of my goals this November is to write 100K. WIth all my homework this year, it's going to be pretty impossible to juggle homework, NaNo, and life in general, but I can do it. Somehow. I might go crazy, but then again, have I ever really been sane?
