MaW’s Blog

So NaNoWriMo 2006 is complete. Anybody who’s been watching my word count will note that I finished up with a bit over 55,000 words, which is not bad, although a bit short of the 60,000 I was aiming for. The last few days were a writing disaster. My muse fled, my energy levels plummeted and that concert probably didn’t help very much either.

The current state of the story is that it’s extremely incomplete. Asha and Riirsh have Ishin and Orfala respectively living disembodied lives inside their heads until they find out how to reunite them with their bodies (and get Wunor out of Ishin’s and back into his own). They still don’t know who’s been blowing up planets, although they’re starting to home in on it, and there’s a huge big hint that it has something to do with this mysterious evil entity which Orfala and Tiral have been attempting to counter for the last couple of centuries.

Ultimately it’s turning out much more mystical than I was expecting, and as such some of the early parts of the story need to be modified to reflect it. It’s not so much that the story can’t develop mystical elements later on, but that they’re so resolutely not there in the early parts of the story it seems a bit odd when we start transitioning into this mysterious evil force and malevolence.

I also need to go back and insert a few missing scenes — there’s the whole capture of an enemy space station to write about (very mysterious, since they still don’t know who actually built the thing and there’s no crew on board when they get into it) — and then maybe actually finish the narrative.

Next year I need a smaller plot…