7208.

Doing pretty well. I’ve been consistently ahead, since I managed to start day 1 with over 2k–I’m still about five, six hundred ahead even though it’s only 11:40 pm today, since I got a headstart from being over 1000 ahead yesterday. (Egad.) I’m pretty excited, although a lot of the prose is awkward so far and the planning a little hackneyed. I can edit later. Two days, and wordcount bribery ahoy!

AND SIX HUNDRED WORDS AHEAD~

4034!!!!!!!

It’s not very interesting, aside from the prologue, but it’ll pick up in a chapter or two. My mantra is “I can always edit later.”

It’s an hour-fifteen into NaNo and I’m already at 1215 for wordcount. Boo-yah.

Hahahahaha.

Yes, it’s one o’clock in the morning!

Granted, this is all probably because this chapter was based heavily on the prototype story that I wrote in March, but I’m hoping this is a good sign.

gyaaaaaaaaah~

Well, I think I decided I’m going to go for the project with the working title “A Wizard’s Work,” mainly because I want to get away from European-esque fantasy and castles and do something a little different. So we’re going to be writing in 1880s America.

The only real problem I have is that I don’t seem to have an antagonist, which I, well, need. I know what they do–I just don’t know who they are. I toyed with having it be the protagonist’s mother, or someone posing as her, but I just don’t know what their motivation is. And I’ve only got three days, so it’s time to think fast.

It’s getting near to time, and I’m still not ready–I outlined part of one of my stories, only to decide to switch at the last second. So now I’m attempting to outline that–and on top of everything, it’s midterms. Hoo boy.

Well, we’ll see if I can do this. Crossing my fingers. (After all, I spend a lot of time procrastinating, so I could at least use it for novelling.)

AKA: A good use for gift cards, Y/N?

10k: How Can We Be Silent, BarlowGirl
20k: Hourglass, Kate Rusby
30k: Girl Genius, Vol. 1
40k: Whatever the heck I want, because it’s 40k
50k: NaNo T-shirt

I figure that’s pretty good intervals. Last year I had them clustered at the beginning because I had no idea whether I was going to finish or not–but now that I know I can theoretically do it, I’m spreading out the incentives over the whole 50k.

Working on roughly what era to set the story in. Think I’m going to go for a slightly different geographical setting, just for interest.

Have been very busy lately, but I think I’ll be prepared in time for NaNo. If I can even manage it this year with my schedule, that is, but if I have to drop out, that’s okay. (I can still say that I’ve won once, anyway.) I’ve been doing some outlining for the various ideas that I have bouncing around in my head, and a couple of them are starting to solidify, so that’s good news.

Now to come up with some wordcount bribes for myself to get me to 50,000…

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.

Woo, I managed to snag one of the clearance NaNo shirts! Go me!

So I decided to go ahead and sign up for Script Frenzy. I think it’ll be interesting and fun (and plus, I won’t have any school!). I’ve worked out some potential plots from stories that I’ve been playing around with…

Miss Sensitive: A girl regarded as the most insensitive, aromantic girl in existence secretly runs an online advice blog where she gives out really good relationship advice. However, some of it begins to run a little too close to home–and not to mention begins screwing up her own life. (Because there should be romcoms about INTJs.)

The Good Princess: The princess was blessed at birth to be pretty but air-headed, which suited the King and Queen fine. However, when they forget to invite a malicious fairy to her betrothal celebration, the fairy decides to remove the “blessing”–bringing out her true nature. Now the princess (now a savvy, intelligent young woman) must decide for herself what’s to be done. And there’s that problem of the very handsome captain of the guard, too…

Miracle: That one I was saving for writing a comic book. Magical girl-type superheroine Miracle goes to college, and finds out that superheroes there are governed by a Council. When she goes to register, however, she finds that the rules aren’t so much to her liking (nor the people, for that matter) and joins up with a bunch of super-powered, rebelling-against-the-man type college kids to form a new team with a new mission that begins to bring the city into a sense of community.

Miss Sensitive I’m dying to write in some kind of media; the Good Princess might actually transfer pretty well. (I love fairy-tale send-ups.) I’m not sure about Miracle, but I love superheroes, so I might go for that, too. (BATMAN BEGINS = WIN.) I have a couple weeks to figure it out, anyway.