Oh, look, it’s November again, which must mean NaNoWriMo is back!
I haven’t had a lot of success with forward planning this year, so I’m not at all sure how well this is going to go, but I shall make an attempt anyway. By now I had hoped to have finished Burning Sky (Dragonlands #4), leaving me free to launch into Aquila’s War (Wingborn #5). Alas, this hasn’t happened. Although I’ve been inching along with Sky, I’ve been struggling to get the plot to the point where I’m free to let loose and run away with it. Mostly because I haven’t had the time or been in the right head space to simply sit back and think about it all. As for AW, while I know where I wanted it to go and what’s vaguely going to happen, details have yet to emerge.
At least that’s where I was with it all last weekend, when I decided to put Sky aside for now and focus on AW instead. Then a new plot idea started jumping up and down for Sky, although I’m not sure yet how I can get to it from where I left things in Chapter 7. Now, after reading through Wingborn #4, ideas for AW are busily poking at my brain, and I also have a long abandoned book waving fresh ideas from the dusty archives. All of which leaves me in something of a quandary.
So this year’s NaNo attempt isn’t to write 50K words of a novel. It’s to write as many words as possible on two, possibly three books, and hope I might actually finish one of them. 50,000 words would be good, even more would be great, but I’m making no promises and setting no targets. I have them in my head, but I’m only counting the things that I actually get done. Hopefully that way I won’t jinx myself and ruin it all.
Updates to come as and when I have anything of worth to report.
For now…
DAY ONE
Aquila’s War Prologue + 1/2 Ch 1
Riders filled the northern horizon.
Prologue, 1st line
Overall – 2489 words
Here’s hoping tomorrow goes as well. Although I do have the dentist, so I’m definitely not making any promises.
Good luck to all who are also taking part!
Becca Lusher 
It’s lovely to hear that all these ideas are waving at you, though it must be a little annoying that they insist on coming all at once.
Good luck with it, lovely! I’ll be cheering for you.
Thank you, my lovely.
As for the ideas, all the disruption has been really hard on my writing this year, so I am definitely not complaining! It’s just nice to feel excited about my own stories again.