http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/162151
That’s my NaNoWriMo page and yes I wrote 50,238 words on the month of November. Despite having a 5 day break for Thanksgiving with friends in Los Angeles and all the temporal haphazards of working in the video game industry, I imaged to stay the course and write my 50k. Is it the best 50,000 words I ever wrote? I’m sure like the last 50,000, that answer is a big fat no. But what counts is that it’s given me time to write down the bits and pieces of my sci-fi story and hammer out the details. Before I can rewrite my story, I need to have one first, right? I don’t know how this fits into the other pieces I wrote or if this would stand better on its own — I definitely have the notion that it will join a larger story arch but I’m working without a deadline. I get to do things pie-in-the-sky for a long while yet, but the end result is that I would like to find a publisher after I feel out the story and really vet it in my mind and on computer screen.
I’ll post an exerpt of it later this week for your enjoyment. But! I know, better yet, since you already clicked the link you can read what I have there.
The story’s called “Common Sense” after the phamplet by Mr. Thomas Paine. Currently, my story, in its state, bears absolutely no resemblance to those words that spurred our great revolution (not even close), but one of the passages from his famous essay did incited the idea for this story:
“In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest; they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto; the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same.”
The gist of the story is that a small group of people survive a horrible accident onboard a larger starship and find themselves together on a smaller one. They have limited food, supplies, and don’t know one another and have about a month to go before they reach Mars.
So the November project is done. What does this mean? Time for Assassin’s Creed. More Super Mario Galaxy. And next months project… well, if you read my previous post. You’ll have an idea and you’ll definitely see what I’m brewin’ at home.