NaNoWriMo 2013

My April Camp NaNo Rebel Mission….

This April, my goal is to complete three existing NaNoWriMo WIPs. Each of these was a winner; none of these first drafts have been completed.

The Novels:

Sima Garo Provides, (Trueborn Weft Series) NaNoWriMo 2012 – This will be my first WIP of the challenge. I am currently expanding the completed general outline.

April 11 Update:

I completed 26,287 words in ten days.
I finished the WIP through Chapter Eighteen, Scene 3.
The draft will have nineteen chapters and an epilogue.
I will continue writing each day, although my focus now shifts to Blood and Breath.

Blood and Breath, (Trueborn Weft Series) NaNoWriMo 2009 – This will be WIP #2. I will merge the story outline in progress with the story arc I wrote in 2012, and create a plan for the conclusion of this draft.

To Be or Not to Be, (Trueborn Warp and Weft Series, at present) August Camp NaNoWriMo, 2012 – the third, final, and least ready of the three. I will move to Scrivener, then create an outline.

The Plan:

Write 75,000 words in 30 days – roughly 25 thousand per book.

10 days on each WIP, for the 30 day virtual camp.

I will finish the month with three newly completed rough draft WIPs.

The Why:

Completing these three WIPS will give me five to six rough drafts to play with in editing months.

If I don’t attain the full measure of the goal, I will have progressed toward it, and built momentum.
There are scenes and chapters I want to add to Chameleon’s Dish and Bounded by a Nutshell, but they are, at this moment, already stories that have beginnings, middles, AND ENDINGS, too! I feel I need to tie up some of the still-dangling ends of the unfinished WIPS, before I can finesse these two…or really sink my teeth into other books in the double series.

The Future:

It’s funny to me that there was a time, not so long ago, when I truly thought I would never finish even one book. And here I am, with five books in progress, already, and the beginnings of three more:

The two Trueborns, Spock and Niaan’s childhood stories, which I am exploring with the 26 flash fiction stories for my A to Z stories. These will be my “also-rebel” July Nano effort – yes, that’s two novels, in one month, but it will take some pretty serious planning and presetting, I think, to get there..
King of Infinite Space, my 2013 November NaNo ; partner volume to Sima Garo Provides. (Name might change to King of Shreds and Patches, which seems to fit better).

I’ve also been giving some dreaming and drifting attention to what used to be called “the bonding story” – the volume where Spock and Niaan come together….it might be called The Consummate Weaving, or something like that,and will be a ripper of a roller coaster ride. I may fuse these two stories into one book, as Spock and Niaan finally fuse their lives together. That will be fun to write, but I think it won’t happen until 2014….