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Originally Posted by Sternum
ZenKitty omg I didn't know you write!! I'd have liked to participate this year but I have college + a field immersion to deal with, so I won't be free until mid-December. (Plus the field immersion is in a village, so I'd have to rely on my hotspot...eh.)
What kind of stories do you usually write? And what rough directions are you exploring for your NaNo novel this year?
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I write all kinds of things and have used NaNo to explore different genres. So in the 10 years I've done NaNo, I've written an urban fantasy, cozy mystery, chick lit, sci-fi, regular fantasy, a spin off of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, a couple of psychological thrillers, a humorous general lit story and attempted a horror novel.
This year I'm using the NaNo theme of superhero and writing the story of a meek and mild woman who rescues a crash landed alien who has superpowers on earth. But when she rescues him she gets some powers of her own and is actually the one who is helping him to do his work. His planet will get interested in Earth and they will have to work together to assure that nothing bad happens and in the end, my MC will own her power and danger will be thwarted.
At least that's the idea right now. I feel so unprepared. I've spent too much time working on getting everything scheduled for our region that I haven't had much time to focus on my novel. I'll be pantsing it this year for the most part. :P
And Trys is right. We have a lot of people who handwrite their novels and then I'll use a Lorem Ipsum word doc to have them upload it on November 30th to validate they wrote all of the words.
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Originally Posted by Den
I just feel like I've kinda got nothing that could be developed into a fully fledged story...
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If you run out of story you could have fun with writing prompts. It's good writing practice. :)