I can't even say that with a straight face, lol.
My absence comes from failing so hard on my one-post-a-week goal while I was working; but by the time my schedule had evened out I was too far behind for it not to be a positively DAUNTING task to catch up. Lame.
In all honesty, it's quite realistic to say my year's worth of planning in preparation for launch has failed; but I am far from discouraged, disinterested, OR distracted. I'm doing this thing! Some...day.....
That being said. I am taking the month of November to do NaNoWriMo! Or National Novel Writing Month. It's a personal challenge event that I have been sidelining for years and have now made the decision to jump into this year. The challenge is to write a 50k word novel by the end of November; and to non-writers I'm sure sound pretty daunting. Heck, I'm sure to those who do write it sounds pretty daunting. Frankly, I am up for the challenge SO HARD. *gung-ho pose* There's no doubt in my mind I have novels UPON novels of content to draw from.
So. MY personal challenge is that, yes; I am using the world, concepts and characters tied to my webcomic for this. This entire thing did begin in writing, after all. But I figure that returning to basics will help me pin down some elements and details, or at the very least set things in motion toward actually launching this this overgrown brainchild of mine. Where's the actual challenge part, you say? Oh allow me to explain.
You see, the world of Reverie is such an intertwined continuity of characters, worlds and events that no— it can't be told in one simple novel. That's why I was planning for an ongoing webcomic; or at the very least, a series of [graphic or written] novels. My self-imposed challenge is to see if perhaps a piece of the story can be told in a doable novel... or maybe just writing something "new" within the continuity (like a spin-off.) This might require much more planning and finalization of details than I thought. But still eager and excited.
SO! All this blah-blah to say. This here blog will definitely be active in the next month as I track my progress and, essentially, think aloud as I have been doing, lol. If I hadn't been such a loser and abandoned it for so long, I wonder where I'd be, progress-wise. :< Anyway, wish me luck; I aim to finish the challenge and THEN some!
To note... it's not a contest in any way, lol. Even if I don't finish my 50k in time, I will walk away with an excellent start to finally kick off this project. So. Revving my typing fingers!
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