This April I am participating in Camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). As I did last year, I'm writing 100,000 words split across a few novels. This year I have it less structured than last year, as I did not spend very much time at all planning it out. I simply placed the rewrites I have been working on, as well as the unfinished novels of mine, on a scrivener file and organized it so that each "Day" section is equal to 1667 words, which is half my daily word count.
As it is already part of the way through April, I have already started this challenge. Due to being fairly busy right around the beginning of April, I immediately fell behind. This month, I think, is the first time that real life has held me back from being on time at all so far. I have been working on it all morning and am making good progress in catching up. Luckily for me, exam period has just begun, leaving me with plenty of free time to work on the novels I chose for this challenge. However, not all of my novels were started before the month started.
This Nanowrimo, I'm starting a new novel titled "Escape from Dreamscape". For me, it's a bit of a last minute novel idea, as I had not been planning or focused on the coming Nanowrimo much at all in March. However, thus far, this novel, along with "The Beginning of the End" and "Kuna Zero: A Wanderer's Tale" rewrites, has been my main work of the month.
As the title suggests, the novel is about Blake Tessier's escape from the land of Dreamscape, which is the land one enters when they are dreaming. The whole of the novel is intended to be his journey through his subconscious, gradually regaining his memory of his real world life, and gradually retaking control of his mind. I think I will have it split into four parts, or worlds that he has to go into and conquer in a way. As it stands right now, Blake and Damia (his guide towards his own awakening) are in a fantasy land full of magic and strange beings. They're just now learning how to engage with the world on its own terms and fight like heroes of a fantasy world would.
Anyways, I should be getting back to training them for the eventual battle they will have to fight in order to retake this part of Blake's imagination once more. Take care, and until next time,
-Zero
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