Ling Does NaNoWriMo

It’s that time of year again…

Posted by: Carly on: October 11, 2007

And I’m working on the ideas I’m holding in consideration for this year’s NaNo. (Script Frenzy kind of fizzled out after the first 10k, by the way.)

Current idea list stands as:

  • Crown: Probably the frontrunner. About a farmgirl who finds a magical, sentient, evil crown that everyone else wants and how she saves her country, doesn’t die, and kicks some serious butt. Not set in pseudo-medieval times, but rather in late 19th-century-esque fantasyland!
  • The Good Princess: Recycled from SF, in which the princess, blessed to be graceful, beautiful and airheaded comes to her senses with a fairy’s engagement gift and starts revising her own life.
  • A Wizard’s Work: Something I started playing with a few months ago about a Victorian-era world where you can get a degree in wizardry–and the first woman to get one.
  • Operation Cinderella: Yet another fairy-tale retelling, in which Cinderella is a revolutionary set on overthrowing the king and the monarchy, and ends up at the ball in an attempt to kidnap the prince to back up their demands. However, a wrench gets thrown in the plans when the prince turns out to be a lot more reasonable than she suspected.
  • Something Else I Haven’t Thought of Yet.

I’m pretty sure Crown’s the front-runner–there’s a lot of good stuff there–but I still have yet to outline it and prep. Updates to come.

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This is the blog of a WriMo called Ling who is also known as sparklythingy from time to time, especially on the NaNoWriMo forums. Somehow she decided that it sounded like a good idea to try to write a novel in a month. These are her adventures in word-counting and fast typing.

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