NaNoWriMo Subject Decided
With just two short weeks left, NaNoWriMo is about to commence, so I made sure to sit down and start thinking about what I would do for my book. I have been so busy in the last few weeks on vacation, getting caught up on my work (still getting caught up on my work….dealing with pain in…well, you get it…customers) and trying to get a little rest.
So, now I can start working on my NaNo planning. Luckily, I had an idea from about a year and a half ago that is ripe for the picking. To be honest, I had to dig through a dozen different lists of story ideas, half finished short stories and partially postulated novels. But, I finally uncovered the perfect story idea.
With the freelance writing taking so much of my valuable arthritis inducing time at the keyboard up, I decided I needed a story idea that would be easy to write, straightforward to plot, and preferrably incredibly simple to finish. That story idea was a hybrid science fiction novel. It sounds a bit nerdy sure, but it will be much more fun than the last two I wrote, which became so convoluted and confusing that when the 50,000 words were done I was confused out of my mind and had to step back for long enough to forget about it.
Anyways, the NaNoWriMo idea, before I forget to actually outline here is the following:
Boy meets girl
They fall in love
She disappears, leaves him a locket (he can’t open it)
20 years later – He is a pilot, engaged, about to start training at NASA
enter Sci-Fi
The moon disappears (yes, our moon)
The locket opens, the pilot goes blind, and all hell breaks loose.
That’s the rough idea. I don’t want to throw the ending out just yet (mainly because I don’t know what it is yet), but that should show you just how campy and out there I’m aiming to go with this novel. It is only 30 days right? Why not shore it up with an easy, fun idea.
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