NaNoWriMo approaches

It's coming. NaNoWriMo is almost here! I have always wanted to participate in it, but never had the drive and a specific story idea (and time) line up for me to do so. I'm hoping to change that this year.

For those of you unfamiliar with what NaNoWriMo is, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. Now, I'm not sure that I'll be able to get an entire novel pumped out, as I'm still working on prepping Wings of Fate for release and I'd really like to avoid burnout. However, I do have that little side project that's been trickling along, and I'd love to hammer on it and get a good chunk of it written down. I can always finish it at leisure after Wings of Fate has been taken care of.

This project is one that I've had planned for at least six or seven years, and I do already have a synopsis written up for it, which is kind of strange to work with. I'm more comfortable with a rough, general synopsis being written for a book, comprised mostly of bits and pieces of story matter. It's much easier for me to feel inspired and write a book with plenty of wiggle room left to create story details and possibly change the direction of the storyline.

So yeah, I think my November project would be ..... the eleventh book in the series. Which leaves a few others still in the planning stages or partly finished at this point. Sorry. I've learned that some stories need a long time to gestate in my mind so that I don't miss out on any important details. If I try to force the story, I either ruin it or end up frustrated. That's part of why it's taking so long to get back to Sovereign Soul. I haven't had the right energy to work on it for the past several years, and now that I've waited, I've been able to develop some important plot points for it that would have been left out, had I hurried to finish it after writing Nethbane. It's hard to wait, but it will be worth it in the end.

Alright, cutting my ramblings short, there are couple of pictures in this post for you. These are both major characters in the side project, and while the drawings are 6-8 years old and will need some revising of their own, the characters are largely the same as they were before. I thought it would be fun to showcase them here.

Have a pleasant day.