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Coming in November...
Posted on Wednesday, October 29 @ 19:18:53 EDT
Topic: News
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 In three days, I officially kick off possibly the largest project I have ever undertaken - writing a novel.
November is National Novel Writing Month, and for over 100,000 people around the world the month serves as a perfectly acceptable excuse for birthing a 50,000 word novel within a 30 day period. Most of the people who sign up for the challenge, around 85 percent of participants in fact, fail at the challenge - usually because, if you think about it, 50,000 words is a lot.
It's a task that demands a minimum of 1,667 words of coherent, organized thought out of a writer every single day. For some, it isn't that hard - especially if you write for a living. But for budding college students, people with social and work lives and anybody else who isn't a word-processing machine, the challenge is very difficult. The failure rate is evidence of this.
But I am going to try it anyway.
My project, which has gone under three names so far (Project NaNoWriMo, then Project Solar and now "The Cradle"), is officially fleshed out, researched, pre-written and ready to... start getting written? I have a 25,059-word storyline written out that catalogs the tragic adventures of Tom Harrington, a 25-year-old Earth History graduate student who gets caught up in one of the most destructive extinction events in Earth's biological history.
The skies burn with ultra-violet light, the oceans turn red and most of the planet's surfaces disappear under a blanket of fresh glaciations as the Earth plunges into its first historically recorded ice age. But for those that cope, there is light at the end of the tunnel - a far-away civilization known by many but visited by few. A civilization that protects man and his interests, his dreams and his will to reach the light at the end of the tunnel.
A civilization known as the Cradle.
Track my progress at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/312822 and, provided that I start using it again, right here on my official website.
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