In the dark, there is freedom

So, it's been forever since I've updated this thing I call a journal, and while there hasn't really been a lot going on in my life that needs to be rehashed here for everyone to read, I thought I'd give you all a little update about that crazy writing thing I do every year: NaNoWriMo. I wasn't going to participate this year because I always spend the first week or so not writing and berating myself for not writing, then I kick myself into action around the second week and write like a maniac, only to wind up with 50,000 words of an unfinished novel that I just shove into a corner, reassuring myself that I'll dust it off again one day.

Well, not this year! This year, I'm taking a step back from worrying about original characters and publishing and all that jazz. This year, I'm writing fanfiction. I know, I know, it's not getting me any closer to my goal of being a published author, but hey, if somebody can take Twatlight fanfiction, publish it and have it shoot to number one on the charts or whatever, maybe there's hope for Avengers/MI:4 high school fic, right? Right?

Eh, if nothing else, it'll be fun to write, and that's ultimately the goal of NaNoWriMo.

What's that? You want to know the plot of my novel? Oh! Well, I'm glad that you asked.
( Take a venture behind the cut to find out, my pretties... )

Drat! I didn't make any posts in October, so I missed the chances to use my Halloween sigtags and blinkies, sob.

Oh well. I'm gonna use them now anyway. Ahahaha


Credit goes to adorablexi

I now have an AO3 account! GO READ, OKAY? I have some Avengers stuff posted so far, and I'll be posting a bunch of other stuff, I don't even know. Possibly copying over my fics from didnttakestars? I haven't decided yet.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Well, I was excited about penning the last words of the rough draft for Bright City Bites until I logged on LJ, read my friends list and learned that the summary had lost a writing contest.

Whaaaaaaaaaatever. Trying not to go down the usual path of beating myself up. Everything's still in the rough draft phase. I can't expect genius level writing on the first try, right? Right?

Ugh.

As of midnight, this is where I stand. I'm still 1,069 words short of the goal of 33,340 for Day 20, but hey, I'm doing better than this morning when I woke up. I'm gonna try to keep writing for at least another hour and see if I can knock out that last 1K+ but I'm kinda plodding along right now. My mischief maker character is being tamer than I expected. X(

Well, I feel like I'm chugging along slowly, but you know, I'm the Little Engine Who Could, so I'm not giving up. HUZZAH! NANO NANO!

Joseph tends not to see the bad in himself. Alessandro calls him out on it. Co-written with likesthesilence

( Day 29 )

Onto Day 30

NaNoWriMo starts (for me) in a little over twelve hours (midnight November 1), and I've been posting entries for the last few weeks that have helped me flesh out my characters a little more. Plot's still a little vague but at least I have a theme now.

I also have a tentative cover and synopsis, which I'll place below the cut.

I'll probably just be posting word counts. In the past, I've posted chapters as I've written them in friends-locked posts in didnttakestars, but I think I'm going to hold off on that until I get this finished.

( Bright City Bites )