November on the Horizon

Nanowrimo is quickly approaching, so I suppose it is time for my annual pep talk to myself via blog. This will be my third year of attempting Nanowrimo. Back in 2006 I won this thing with flying colors. I think I wrote something like 58,000 words in the first 21 days and finished my entire story early and then never really got around to editing it properly (like I wanted!). And then last year in 2007 I sputtered out after about 13,000 words and just plain gave up. For some reason killing off all the characters and then reincarnating them into a completely different universe didn't quite feel right to me.

So anyway, this year I am going back to my Nanowrimo roots. My character from my first nano novel is one that I just can't get out of my head and I most certainly have more of her story to tell, so I'm going to be doing a prequel of what happened to her leading up to the novel I wrote in 2006. She's kind of like a female version of Hamlet - except less of a weenie. Her uncle has murdered her father and she's decided to go AWOL on her country in favor of (no, not college), but a pirate/criminal lifestyle. She's the adrenaline rush kind of gal - not the sit and be a pampered princess type at all.

My novel should involve a good deal of piracy, sex, drugs, murder, conniving royals, soft hearted conmen, and bad mouthed women wearing too-tight corsets on ships in addition to all the fantasy and swashbuckling pirate elements I can conjure up in 30 days. I'm so excited to be going back to this world that I can barely stand to wait! I must control myself until November 1.

I don't have an outline yet, or any ideas for my opening scene. Heck, I don't even know the time frame in which I want to tell my story. I know so much about this character and her life but I just haven't put it all down on paper yet.