NaNoWriMo

I'm giving NaNoWriMo another crack. I dropped my plans for a reason and it was because I was exhausted, stressed, ill, and dispirited. Except now I'm more dispirited by not writing than by invisible fake deadlines, so I'm writing again. This is a new story that I've been nurturing, which takes place in the cannibalized corpse of last year's NaNo story. Which means it's a story about Bat-Jews (na na na na na).

Now. I'm not saying I solved the problem of writing about Fantasy Jews when they're clearly not human, because I didn't. I do feel like I've improved the premise by changing the support community for the main characters. ( Read more... )

I did still keep a lot of the quirks and details that I got attached to last year. But I also have more of a plot. I don't expect to be able to finish it this year, and I'm not even sure if I'll succeed in writing every day for the rest of November. But I'm doing something and that feels better right now than doing nothing.