October Novel Prep Challenge

Well, I'm not at the point where I'm confident I'll have a fully developed plan by November, but I do seem to be headed in the right direction.

I have an unusual backup plan this year though. If I'm not ready to start writing the novel I'm prepping, then I'm going to pull out the hand-written thing I started (totally a pants job) on vacation this summer, after my laptop died on the outbound flight headed abroad. Heck of a time for it to go, right? So I had an unused journal sitting in my carry-on, which I pulled out and wrote on the first page "Dante Callahan's Life On Mars". It was literally the first thing that popped into my head. Then I started free-writing something that would go with that title.

There's only a couple chapters to it, and I think it may be happening in the same 'universe' as a previous work, but on a different planet and possible a different century. I decided at the beginning of October that if "League of Dragons" (my working title for the thing I'm prepping) isn't ready by November 1st, then I'm pulling Dante Callahan back out and continuing his tale. On pen and paper. Not sure how I'll do counting for word-sprints, but there's a couple handwriters in my NaNo region. I'll ask them if it comes to that. And how to get the wordcount validated on NaNoWriMo.org.

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Regards,
Eric Fretheim
Assistant Prep Leader, 2015 October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage-- as long as you edit brilliantly." ~C.J. Cherryh

“No, writing 50,000 words in a month is normal. You are not crazy. This is not insane.” ~Teri Brown