Today, at some point, I’ll be planning the NaNoWriMo for this year. Was going to do it earlier in the week but loads of distractions got in the way.
I’ve been giving it a lot of thought and I’ll not be writing anything completely new this year. A few years ago I wrote a pulp sci-fi/horror called Planet of Snakes, the first and only time i finished a NaNoWriMo, which was a sequel to the story I attempted the previous year called Desert of Zin. Thing is, i never finished Desert of Zin…
So, Planet of Snakes was the sequel to an unfinished novel? Yep. And it depended on the ending of Desert of Zin to work.
My thinking is that I’ll use Snakes and other works to write a space adventure.
It’s not strictly just an editing process. The setting works, after a fashion, and I’ll only need to change the characters, the dialogue, most of the plot and anything else that springs to mind.
But that’s not all. Oh, no.
It’s not about writing a 50k story this time. It’s about writing something that actually works, that’s actually readable and is actually complete. Planet of Snakes was a mess filled with quick fixes. But my writing has come on in bounds. I don’t fall into the same repetitious traps. (Or not as much.)
Nothing quite like setting the sights high, eh?
