Remember when I said that I wanted to continue down the road of Instantiated this year? Apparently, that all went to hell last night when I sat down to write. Instead of Raxi popping her head up and saying, “Hey, what the hell happened to Rafe? Will I ever see my brother again? What happened to Ziera and Spyder? FINISH MY STORY, DAMN YOU!”, I instead got two children running up to my muse and begged to be written.

So far, I have no idea where this story is going.

But I’ve written well over 3000.

Must be doing something right. And now, the inevitable excerpt.

Miriam hated waiting. There was nothing more inane and pointless than having to sit on one’s behind and wait for the world to start turning, knowing full well that you have no real say in which way it turns or whether or not it turns at all. Elements of that argument just seem… unfair. Father always told her that the world was unfair and unkind to everyone, not just little girls who had lost their mothers to illness and fate.

Their train to Nowhere had been progressing down what had seemed like the same stretch of tracks for the last millenium or so. Miriam put her hands against the window, trying to peer down the sides of the train; maybe someone else was trying to look for their destination too. The steam of the train made it difficult to see past her own reflection in the glass but it didn’t stop her from making some sort of attempt.

The outside world looked hazy - almost dreamlike, wispy - so every time a shape would fly past her window, Miriam would excitedly press her face against the glass, just to see what it was. Rarely was she able to make out what the object had been.

“Probably trees anyway,” Miriam murmured, rubbing her hands on her dress as she walked back to where Father was chatting to another gentleman. Miriam, ever the cautious and inquisitive child, stood at Father’s side and waited to be introduced.

Another day, another trial.

I’ve had a lot of time to think about what I’m going to do for this year’s NaNo and although it hasn’t been the most helpful decision, I have finally decided that I’m going to continue with Instantiated’s storyline into this year. Re-Instantiated is hopefully going to wrap up a lot of loose ends that I left running ragged after last year.

The only thing I regret from last year is that I managed to kill off one of my favourite characters… and I kind of want to bring her back.

Anyway, I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to my NaNovel… but we’ll see how it goes.

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It’s another year, another 50K for this 5 time NaNo-er; eh, who am I kidding, I’ve only reached the goal once and that was last year. Haha.

ANYWAY, that’s the beside the point - I decided to start the NaNo blog early this year because I’ve got lots of great ideas to do with starting a NaNoNovel for 2008. At first, I thought to myself, “Gee, maybe I should be working on The Faerie Wars (a NaNoNovel I started in 2004). Or work on the sequel to last year’s Instantiated.” Honestly? I don’t think either is a particularly good idea.

I think that this year needs to be another fresh start with new characters and new storylines; nothing old or used. That way, I’ll keep the creative juices flowing and continue down the path of awesomeness and to an eventual win… hopefully.

This year is going to be tough, though, because it’s another year that I’m back in school. Last year, I was fortunate enough to be out of school and to only have a job to concentrate on (albeit, it was a bad job that required long hours and irritating lack of overtime pay, but hey, it paid the bills). I think if I stick to the plan of writing a little over 1500 words a day in addition to getting my homework done, I’ll be okay. Failing that, I’ll be doing a lot of writing on the weekends.

As a bit of side news, I’ve stepped up to the plate and decided to become an ML again, although I’ll be operating out of Burnaby instead of out of Kamloops. I’m going to miss the Loops this time around because I’d gotten so used to going to write-ins with such amazing people. But, BC::Elsewhere needs an ML and I’m happy to do it. I’ll just have to make sure I’m more organized this year and send out stickers to everyone who wants them, instead of consistently forgetting.

Organizing write-ins for the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland should be pretty simple, since I’ll be able to keep myself available for weekends. I might even make it up to Kamloops for a weekend write-in. We’ll have to see how busy I am during mid-term season.

Anyway, welcome to another year of my NaNoBlog. It should be interesting and gruelling, but altogether, I know it will be fun.

Ciao!