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Actually 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
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Okay, here's the deal... I seriously wanna do NaNoWriMo this year, but I'm not sure I can do it... so I'm gonna do a trial run type thing...

Next month (May), is gonna be my NaNoWriMo trial run, meaning I intend to write a novel length (50,000 words) story.

As of right now, I've decided I'm gonna use my idea of putting The OC and One Tree Hill characters into the basic situation of the show Jericho as my idea.

I think I can do this... here's hoping I can... if I succeed next month, then I will almsot definitely do it again come November...

Of course, except for possibly a few snippets, it'll largely be kept private until the end of May, at which time I'll do a quick revision. Then I will post like a chapter a day or something until I've posted it all... or maybe I'll post it on some of the webspace I have and link to it...

Oooh... I could set it up like a book... the link I give for you guys to read it at will go to the 'front cover', which you can click on to go to the chapter index so you can stop and start again without scrolling trying to find the right place in one long document... and of course at the top of each chapter will be a link to the previosu chapter, and at the bottom a link to the next chapter...

Sorry, getting sidetracked... lol... anyway, that story will be my trial run... I'm not gonna push everything aside for the month, but it will be my priority... we'll see how it goes... lol

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