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Apr. 25th, 2008 09:37 pmActually it's a little less than a week... but still!
I wanna stick with the Nano rules, which say start no early than 12:01am (Okay, so I'm doing 12:01am May 1st rather than November 1st, but it's a trial run so :P lol), and it's killing me not to write snippets before then! I did write ONE snippet before I decided to make this my trial run story, but I doubt I'll use much, if any, of it in the fic so it doesn't count... right?
I DO however have a pretty damn detailed outline for the first six chapters, and plus some notes for slightly later...
As always with my stories, it'll be Ryan-centric, although I expect the 'good' guys will all end up having their moments to shine... or fail miserably... lol...
I'm toying with the idea of topping each chapter with a quote, and I've been gathering quotes that have the right feel, but some of the sources would be distracting from the story (like a quote by Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H) so I'm thinkign the quotes will sit alone on the chapter heads, no credit, and at the end of the thing I'll have a page that credits every quote, and if something has been paraphrased to better fit, I'll ahve the fuly, correct, quote in the credits.
I may end up not using quotes, though... I haven't decided...
I do have a pretty good idea of the majority of the story, although at this moment the end is eluding me slightly... which sucks... I often have a good idea of how my stories will end before I start them (I knew 'Another Day' would end with ( fic spoiler ), and I knew 'With A Whimper' would end with ( fic spoiler )) but the ending for this is totally escaping me...
I'm gonna try for the full 50,000 words (Or more!), but I'll consider anything over 40,000 to be a success, since I'll learn from the experience and have MONTHS to outline instead of a week when I do NaNo for real... lol... And even if I don't succeed in finishing it in 1 month? Ya'll will still get to read it, you'll just either have to wait until I finish entirely, or get it one chapter at a time until I finish... lol...
Would anyone be interested in seeing the first draft version of the cover art? I kinda like it... wouldn't mind posting it... it contains spoilers only in terms of revealing the three fandoms that will DEFINITELY be in it (There's a 4th that's possible), and the general feel of the story, which if you know what 'Jericho' was about, you should already have figured out... lol
I wanna stick with the Nano rules, which say start no early than 12:01am (Okay, so I'm doing 12:01am May 1st rather than November 1st, but it's a trial run so :P lol), and it's killing me not to write snippets before then! I did write ONE snippet before I decided to make this my trial run story, but I doubt I'll use much, if any, of it in the fic so it doesn't count... right?
I DO however have a pretty damn detailed outline for the first six chapters, and plus some notes for slightly later...
As always with my stories, it'll be Ryan-centric, although I expect the 'good' guys will all end up having their moments to shine... or fail miserably... lol...
I'm toying with the idea of topping each chapter with a quote, and I've been gathering quotes that have the right feel, but some of the sources would be distracting from the story (like a quote by Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H) so I'm thinkign the quotes will sit alone on the chapter heads, no credit, and at the end of the thing I'll have a page that credits every quote, and if something has been paraphrased to better fit, I'll ahve the fuly, correct, quote in the credits.
I may end up not using quotes, though... I haven't decided...
I do have a pretty good idea of the majority of the story, although at this moment the end is eluding me slightly... which sucks... I often have a good idea of how my stories will end before I start them (I knew 'Another Day' would end with ( fic spoiler ), and I knew 'With A Whimper' would end with ( fic spoiler )) but the ending for this is totally escaping me...
I'm gonna try for the full 50,000 words (Or more!), but I'll consider anything over 40,000 to be a success, since I'll learn from the experience and have MONTHS to outline instead of a week when I do NaNo for real... lol... And even if I don't succeed in finishing it in 1 month? Ya'll will still get to read it, you'll just either have to wait until I finish entirely, or get it one chapter at a time until I finish... lol...
Would anyone be interested in seeing the first draft version of the cover art? I kinda like it... wouldn't mind posting it... it contains spoilers only in terms of revealing the three fandoms that will DEFINITELY be in it (There's a 4th that's possible), and the general feel of the story, which if you know what 'Jericho' was about, you should already have figured out... lol