#nano 2020

[firedragon1321]

I'm editing a draft as one of my NaNos (the other NaNo is a new novel- yes I'm insane).

The "new" novel is actually a short story that I've reworked multiple times. An early draft is somewhere on *gasp* FictionPress. It was inspired by a prompt on here about everyone having a soulmate, and a timer that counts down to when they meet. People in this world are considered children until they meet their soulmate, at which point they are considered adults (there's a twelve-year-old who's expected to move out just because he met his soulmate). The MC figures out how to manipulate the timer. The original short story ended with his surrender to the timer's insidious secret- there's a fungus that activates when it runs out and sprouts in the brain, forcing soulmates to love each other. While this is still canon, the MC will go down a happier path.

(Fun fact- I shared the original short story with people, and they thought it was a happy ending???? Like, what part of "brain fungus" did you ignore???)

The draft I'm editing is a deconstruction of the chosen one trope. Being the chosen one actually sucks, because you belong to the being that "chose" you after you die. The MC also has to deal with a fairy companion who treats him like shit if he doesn't follow the prophecy, and a mentor who is downright abusive, driving him to near-suicide. This was my 2020 NaNo, though I've had the idea since 2017. I have all the notes for it in place, so it should be easier than farting out a new work from scratch.

And now I can give myself the "tell people about your NaNo" badge on their website! :)

#writing #nanowrimo #nano 2023 #nano 2020 #jovie #tw abuse mention #tw suicide mention #joran #tw parasite

[just-another-storyteller]

I realized I haven't posted about my WIPs in ages so I should uh, probably do that at some point again. So.

Main WIP: Finding Magic

It's a High Fantasy story, and I'm currently working on its 4th draft! Once that's done I'll ask a friend to read it, incorporate the feedback, ask other friends twice more and maybe then I can start trying to get it published?? Feels unreal but here we are. Story follows Runa and Laith who, after getting a strange letter from Laith's grandpa, leave their home village and go looking for him, accompanied by a Duskian (regarded as Evil, I used to have just named them demons and still need a new German name for them lmao), a unicorn, and a dog.

Seldnacs

Seldnacs are an open species by FelonDog over on dA, but they're original enough I'm putting them here - They're getting mostly short stories, but will pop up every now and then.

Started but currently on kinda sorta hiatus

Changes: This one, along FM, was one of my first stories and I definitely want to finish it eventually... Bear with me because you'll be able to tell it started when I was a teen lmao. It's kinda sci fi-esque, the story starts with a strange laboratory experimenting on mostly teens and children by adding animal DNA to theirs, basically creating beastfolk, just that it often isn't as pretty as most fantasy beastfolk. The characters eventually decide to try and fight/escape, leading to them having to figure out how to survive now that they look Like That.

Rainbow VN: An Urban Fantasy Visual Novel/Dating Game; it'll have six different characters, and the plan is that every character gets a Get To Know route followed by a route split into Romance, Friendship, and Supernatural routes. Quite a bit has been written for a NaNo once, but I gotta re-plan a lot of it.

Unnamed Horror WIP: Another former NaNo WIP, its first draft is pretty much finished but it'll need a lot of editing. It follows two kids whose trip to the local woods turns south when they end up somewhere very, very far away from home...

Solarpunk WLW WIP: Started for last year's NaNo, though I actually had to give up that year 😔 It has, as the WIP title suggests, a Solarpunk setting (futuristic but very hopeful, lots of Green Tech, etc), the protags are two older ladies (70s-80s) who meet and fall in love.

Fallen or Loyal: After humankind got sapience, the Heavenly Host split into the Loyalists, who want to follow God's Plan and lead humans back into Safety, and the Fallen, who believe that humans' free will is more important than safety. I've already written quite a bit, but I'll probably have to re-plan a lot of it and figure out where I wanna go.

I've been rotating these in my brain

Unwanted Transformation: It definitely needs a better title lmao, set in the same world as Finding Magic; a young woman got cursed by a Duskian to be in a dog's body for reasons she doesn't know, and she's trying to get a young Orc guy to help her a) track down the Duskian and make him explain, and b) get back to her friends and girlfriend.

Dracula Sequel: I may have Dracula Daily Brainrot, and a Vampire OC lying around with no story to be. I'll hold off on actually starting until DD is finished (vampire was originally a Van Helsing OC, but I want the story to follow the OG book more closely), but it'll be about revenge; a while after the happenings of Dracula, one of Drac's "children" (biological from before he was a vampire? Someone he turned? Idk yet) decides she's finally ready to get revenge on the people who killed her father.

Hyenas: I just really like Xenofiction and love hyenas; the story will probably follow a young spotted hyena who's just left their pack and has to join a new one, working their way up from the bottom, but naturally, there's now things threatening her new pack. I'm considering adding some fantasy elements (like, say, the yeens having magic), and/or including more hyena species aside from Spotted Hyena.

Rebels with a Cause: In a cyberpunk dystopia setting, a ragtag group of misfits tries to take the unjust government apart. Still gotta figure out a lot about what said government is actually like... Doing... Tho.

#long post #my wips #writeblr #writerblr #I have some more on Indefinite Hiatus but the post is long enough as is #finding magic #changes #Seldnacs #rebels with a cause #rainbow #rainbow vn #NaNo 2020 #nano 2020 project #nano 2021 #Nano 2021 project #dunno how to do read more on mobile sorry mates

[portalhome]

ok camp nano goal is 30hrs so approx ~1hr/day. stretch goal is 30k words but I'm not so much worried about that

#last time i did nano was apparently july 2020 according to the site #and i apparently wrote 30k for take evangeline which is so funny bc i do not remember SHIT

[lesbienneanarchiste]

hate that the nano website sucks so much ass but also the only event near me is 30 minutes away at 6-7 pm when i'm too tired to do shit and also know that i am almost certain to be the only one masking. like. it's so impossible to make any kind of friends around here and it's exhausting.

#disgruntled octopus #it's not like i was active in the irl community in md but at least there were more options #and then during nano 2020 they did zoom stuff which i didn't do bc i wasn't doing nano but i appreciated #now it's solely write ins irl at bangor library #also write ins are not practical for me bc my laptop is so old and shitty and tempermental #so it's like. i do wanna go. but also i don't wanna get sick i don't wanna drive an hour round trip and i don't wanna go out in the evening #but gd the isolation really kicks in when there's something i want to do but can't/don't want to deal with the cons

[wander-wren]

so, this is nice to see. like. sometimes it just feels like i’m not accomplishing anything, right

my ao3 wordcount for 2022, as of today:

that doesn’t include at least 120k of original stuff, if somewhat sleep-deprived memory serves. that doesn’t count the 20k oneshot rotting while i put off finishing the last scene, or the 60k fic that’s just getting started. it doesn’t include ideas i started and pushed aside halfway through.

i hate to risk sounding like i’m bragging but damn. it’s not a lot. it’s not anything, to most people, especially being that it’s free labor.

but that’s half a million words there, easy, and i know all of them are good. i have faith in my competence.

whatever else comes out of this year, i did that much. and i know wren from last november wouldn’t have dreamed of a 500k year, let alone a 500k year i wasn’t even trying to pull. the only person i ever have to impress is my former self, right?

#bird noises #im emo tonight about it #fanfiction #objectively my writing journey is kind of bonkers insane from 2019-now #tried nano for the first time in 2019. super intimidated and stressed. hit 48k #skipped april camp #did 30k for july camp (swiftpaw’s chance baby!) #fuckin. stumbled into the overachievers forum in october #told myself i would set three tiered goals of 50k/75k/100k #but i knew day 1 i was lying to myself #hit 100k nano 2020 #accidentally prepped so hard for april camp i wrote 60k in march and collapsed #i donttttt remember july i think i skipped it #came back nano 2021. 125k. started a week early too #130k novel in five weeks and some other work i did in the last couple days of nov #i felt fucking feral for that one #i never properly counted last april but it was somewhere high. 80k? #again #dont remember july’s final number but i do think it came out similar to april #i stopped tracking my words this year sooo #and i donttttt think i got to 100k this month but i just started college i gotta cut myself slack #DEFINITELY over 50k but ill do a final count in the morning #we’ll see

[heathenkweer]

the forgotten mothers || PROLOGUE

Fandom: Norse Mythology/Religion Wordcount: 1,487 Character(s)/Relationship(s): Loki/Sigyn/Angrboda, Original Characters CONTENT WARNING(S): Mentions of torture and the physical after-effects of it. Summary: Sigyn, free of the cave, has been trying to live in relative peace in Midgard. When a woman confronts her, demanding to know where her missing daughter is, that uneasy peace is broken, and Sigyn finds herself the target of an unknown force that's hunting down the children of Loki and killing them. She must stop them before Ragnarok comes to claim them all.

“Is that—the sun?”

Sigyn nodded once, then stopped when her vision swam, and then felt a fool because Loki could not see her.

“It is, husband. We are free.”

With a note of reverence in his tone, Loki said, “You wondrous creature. What did you do?”

The impossible. Somehow, she had done what was supposed to be impossible.

“I will tell you later.”

AO3

#sigyn #logyn #written by me #story: the forgotten mothers #does loki/sigyn/boda have a couple name? #anyway. yes. i'm writing sigyn again. #originally written in 2020 for NaNo and i only just now got back around to messing with it

[guesswhosaninja]

I haven't posted directly on tumblr in years but for a small update, I just finished my third year of NaNoWriMo in a row working on the same book (I did just over 60,000 words this year on the second draft of it, after doing the first draft entirely in 2020) ^^

It's finally getting rly close to a point I'll be happy to share it for the first time, which I'm very nervous and very excited about

#it's a gay science fantasy heist story with a shapeshifting con artist a long-lost princess and a bunch of fun characters #given that I've wanted to be a writer since I was like 10 #its been the most wonderful thing finishing my first book in 2020 and continuing to make it better #(also I realised halfway thru this year it is actually 2 books) #so I guess I wrote my first two books in 2020 which is an amazing accomplishment to me c: #I hope all my writer friends and neighbours have/are having a great nano this year <3

[defiledtomb]

What software do you use to write and organize?

Scrivener!

#on writing #ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #i've used scrivener for all my projects since I got the nano code in 2019?2020? idk. It's the best though! #oh and the best app is Plout #I use that on my phone

[six-of-ravens]

okay so, it's already August and I realized I have to book my fall vacation if I want to have one. original plan was to triangulate the exact time in which I can cause maximum pain to my coworkers, but no one will tell me when that is and my psychic powers are failing :/

Sooooo I've triangulated the best time to take off as the 10th - 18th of October. There's Canadian Thanksgiving on the 9th (planning your vacation around stats so you get bonus days off is Primo Adulting), and I'd also have my mom's birthday off so we could do something fun. And I think that'll be the sweet spot where we usually have our very short fall, so it'll be chilly enough to do lots of cooking and baking but not so chilly/such bad weather that I can't go for a hike/drive. (If it's one of the years where we have an extremely late summer or early winter I will just. Die. Especially if it insists on being 20+ C). I could also take the 3rd/half of the last week of October off, which might be more ideal weather-wise and spooky-enjoyment-wise, but I'd get one less day bc there's no stat to align my time off with.

Anyway sorry this post has no purpose other than I'm scared to book my vacation bc I don't want to use up my vacation days 😭 but also I really want to book it so I have something to look forward to...

#i also kinda wanted Halloween off but i realized it falls on a work from home day anyway #so i can still make slow cooker chilli or whatever and watch horror movies and be chill #also i won't have a week off during nanowrimo but. i haven't won nano since 2020 anyway and I don't think 'not enough writing time' is the #problem anymore. more like 'not enough motivation' or 'not enough ideas' lmao #anyway aaaaggghhhh decisions decisions #why can't i be like my aunt and get like 2 full months of vacation time. i need to be an independent contractor for the govt #(part of the reason she gets so much time is just A Good Job but also she's non-union but there IS a union in her workplace so... #... they got really good raises for their employees. but rhe govt funding didn't stretch to raises for non-union employees... #so the compromise was non-union employees get a ridiculous amount of vacation/personal days #anyway in conclusion a) bookin vacation time hard and b) unions are good for everyone actually

[tirsynni]

I finally broke 70k on my original novel! Now probably 30k to 40k to go! Lol

Trying to be happy with the progress and push aside that it is my 2020 Nano and has barely been touched since then.

#random #2020 nanowrimo #just writing stuff #yay progress! #maybe i will finish before 2022 nano!

[candiedcatnip]

Took a break from writing my absolute Magnum Opus of a fanfic for about 10 months, then decided to read/notate for revisions the other week out of nowhere. Just finished reading my beloved unfinished 600k+ behemoth and boy. Sure do hope I can get back into the flow of it quickly cause there is still. So much to add.

#max mumbles #I started it during NaNo 2020 for reference #still gotta finish up the last of it then go back and add or complete scenes I skipped #probably gonna let it breathe for a little while after that then do another annotation read through for revisions #I think after that I'll kinda have to just throw it out there since I've already spent a wild amount of time on it #genuinely don't expect to be done with this thing for at least another year due to The Way I Am #Cherry on top is it's for The Hobbit so I doubt many people are gonna see let alone read it since popularity is way past its hayday #so this is PRETTY MUCH JUST FOR ME #would love if people would read and like it but im bein realistic yknow #constantly plagued by the feral biting urge to talk about it but got no one to ramble about it to

[evilhorse]

Dr. Zayn Asghar is the inventor of the nano-ant swarm!

#ant-man #zayn asghar #nano-ant swarm #the future #time travel #al ewing #tom reilly #marvel comics #comics #2020s comics

[cospinol]

90% sure it’s another Hbtw Nano year b/c i’m not interested in or thinking abt anything else right now, fully in 24/7 hbtw brain mode, But i’m also at what i would charitably call the Beginning of a complete overhaul of any’s personal lore and motivations / the entire rhea situation, which means huge changes to the entire first arc (again) which i severely doubt will be anywhere near settled by nov @_@;; also recently started thinking about why the hell godseams as a power system work the way they do in literally any capacity + may have to fix that before I move on anywhere (++ I think it’s the cornerstone of the problem I’ve been kind of circling since last year wrt wanting the deities to be more present on earth than they currently can be, but also if that’s true then iloilo’s plan&the entire ‘correct century’ changes nothing/io has nowhere to go back to, so the simple solution doesn’t work) … never satisfied ever lol I think it’ll just be Hbtw Sea So Deep Arc (But Slightly Different This Time) for nano every year for the rest of my life at the point (-﹏-。)

#2014 and 2018 were my two Miracle Novel years but i’m not even asking for a time THAT good again #just would like to write 50k words that include plot points I actually care abt #seems like it should be an easy task. and yet #bbbbbbbb i’ve been thinking abt dg a lot recently since it’s I Can Fix Her season and like. definitely can not go back there again BUT #it’s still so infuriating that that book is structured the way it is for no reason when it’s very very obvious from rereading everything #*Surrounding it in notes &c. that the main appeal of the plot is that we know dale’s secret but not saya’s…? #daydreaming of a draft that leans into the devil king memories plot from the beginning bc that was the whole point of his character… #anyways though we’re not doing that so it’s beside the point. putting it down asap #what we Are doing is returning to the stupid fake godspeaker plot that I thought I’d put to bed permanently circa 2020 #but I guess that’s what rhea is abt all along. In A Way. a [usurped position] … #txt #nano tag #anyways anyways. feeling very put-upon abt this entirely self-inflicted situation bye

[jet-bradley]

one really absolutely fun facet of memory loss is that you get reminded about it by the weirdest fucking things. my top 3 weapons in spla2n by ink coverage & most wins are weapons i KNOW i mained bc i have clips of them but i have no memory of maining. yall ive only played spla2n since like, 2019

#like the thing is i hardly main weapons at all anymore #getting back into the game ive had an affinity for splatlings but like #when i dropped those and got into backlining i wanted to stay versatile #so even tho i think of myself as a splatling player my highest splatling is below my old mains #which were nzap 89 (i knew i mained it bc i had an oc who mained it but it's my HIGHEST INK WEAPON) #(HOW I HAVENT PLAYED IT SINCE I LEFT B RANK) #the mini with the burst bombs which i havent played much recently but it's still the love of my life #and the nzap with armor because it's just the 89 but useful #but yeah i have no memory of maining 89. #how. #the mc of my current nano story mains 89 because a lot of him is a rework of my first splat oc #down to the name (link) the family and also the main #completely new personality story and style #but yea the reason my first splat oc played 89 is because he was MY player character and i mained 89 when i started the game #enough that even after playing the game for like 2 more years after switching from that weapon it is my highest weapon by ink coverage and #wins... #and it's a complete blank #trying to recall USING it #nd like. that in and of itself may be kinda normal. it's the lack of memory of 2019/2020 that this is related to that has me like #ok! cool!

[jakeabel]

i’m going to do the most fucked up evil attempt at nanowrimo ever

#actually that’s false bc in 2020 my nano novel eventually just turned into my 50k word vent diary #and it does Not get more evil that that #txt

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

#I'm going to be mega annoying and self boost #I'm currently (very slowly) uploading two of my old novels in audiobook form to youtube #they aren't teen lit despite my art style #the teenage characters in one of the books are all adults by the end of the book #and they're in a series where I actually finished more than one book #the other book which I have a feeling will be more popular was my vampire hunter/demon slayer Romantics/Victoria fan fic #it's basically Romantics/Victoria the tv show fan fiction #but it was my 2020 nano project #also that is me doing all the voices #and I made all the art (or edited it in photoshop) #b. h. avondale #I rethought about it and I'm pretty sure that even though my stuff is fucked up a bit that it's less fucked up than some teen lit I read #so it's not 18+ any more #I thought it would be bad but I've read worse in teen lit and classic lit so I'm guessing it's probably fine? #b. h. avondale is my penname it's not my real name! #youtube #lgbt lit #historic fiction #current releases #audiobook #this is one of several side projects #and you bet your ass that I'm going to eventually do Matilda's story too once I untangle it #she's still a mess but not in a dress- a mess in a fine vest and trousers I think #both those stories on the channel have bipolar leads in the stories #actually bipolar #my chatter #my art #my voice #the veery family saga #to be the hunter or the hunted