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November 2, 2012
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For a few years now, Martin Kelly has been participating in NaNoWriMo. This year, I’m also taking the plunge.
What are the odds of me hitting the 50,000 word goal by the end of the month? Not good. Not good at all. However, I’m hoping that the exercise will allow me to find small pockets of writing time and take advantage of them, so that I can continue the good habits after November is over. I have several book ideas at the moment, but have struggled to find time to write.
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My book is tentatively titled “Shuffle”. My main idea behind the book is that the main character’s life has been shuffled like a deck of cards and he’s going to live the time out of sequence. This is likely triggered by an event in his 20s, to avoid having his youth messed up to much. In a nutshell, one day he’ll be 42. The next day he’ll be 25. A few weeks later, he’ll be 70. The idea came from the combination of several things – Quantum Leap, Memento, 11/22/63, and more importantly, the “random” button on XKCD.
The one thing missing at the moment is a plot. I came up with this idea on the spur of the moment a few days ago. Is the main character the protagonist or the antagonist? If the story is going to be interesting, there really should be some sort of conflict. But what sort of conflict? Romantic troubles, or someone trying to kill the character. (On second thought, those two ideas really aren’t mutually exclusive). Heck, I’m not even settled on the gender of the character, much less the name (although I could always just go with Pat).
OK, need to finish this up and get back to my writing. My word count at 11:30 on the first day of NaNoWriMo? 7.
