Well, Jay and I have embarked upon a massive contest. A marathon struggle of will, as it were. We are going to conduct a mini NaNo WriMo write-off. We have until the end of July to finish a novella, with the goal of 1,000 words per three days. An easy amount, since we each like incredibly intense and busy schedules. So we are off on our own race, with the goal of finishing a nice, tidy story at the end of July. It can provide practice for NaNo WriMo and get us back into the groove of fiction writing. Lord knows, I've stepped away from writing too long and I find the concept of past participles foreign and remote.
From now on, I'll be posting updates every three days, with the passage that I've completed for that writing window. Each window of three days I must finish at least 1,000 words. Each of us will be posting our status via our personal blogs and this status bar will be updated with every 1k of words I write. If I do the minimum of 1,000 words every three days, I should hit around 17,000 by the end of July.
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I'm currently figuring what exactly my story should be. It'll either be a story about an emperor's daughter, an Irish mobster or a loose retelling of the Odyssey set in the future and Odysseus as an Arabic Catholic space captain.