| | Last night, despite having written 3000 words a day for two weeks straight (plenty to finish on time) I decided to grant myself an extension on the novel. Here are the reasons I presented myself for consideration:
- The novel is just too good to rush.
- I didn't really start till the 12th, due to factors like remembering that I can't write.
- I have a project deadline on the 27th and, besides HVAC control systems being important to the world, I'm paid by the hour. We're traveling to France in December, and maybe Egypt in January, so we need the money.
So the good news is that I'm 25,000 splendid words into the novel, code-named Teratoma, which is set in a Cardiff size town in Wales where two heavy metal bands, Teratoma and Diebola, are engaged in a rivalry over which band is more Satanic (and more Celtic--Satanic/Celtic are conflated in the fantasy world of the novel--the important thing is that they are old gods). Our heroes are a 14 year old orphan metal head and his Liszt-obsessed narrator friend who hate each other but are forced to write a zine in order to pass their creative writing class. Of course, they find themselves caught in the struggle between the bands.
I feel good about it, that's the other good news. I made the mature choice and cut out an entire subplot involving a remote island of cannibals, proving that I can "kill my darlings". I also planned to give it an epic sweep of time, but currently it's entirely set in about a 2 week period in 1991. The final word count of the novel will be about 25,000, but I
have to write more than that so I can cut about half the words. Lord
knows about half of them already need to go!
The bad news is that it won't be finished on the 30th, and thus won't receive the NaNoWriMo cup for 2007.
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