Nanowrimo '17

So it is that time of the year, November. 50 000 words to beat. What a challenge. It surprised me this year completely, sneaking on me. I haven't created idea or anything and now as trying to put all stuff up I have two options. I could start my nano camp idea from scrap or then start new story about new marriage and relationships and catholic boarding school and it's mysteries. I am worried that I will get bored with this one soon. As I haven't had time to plan it long enough so I am probably gonna go with nano camp idea about Moon and Sun and their doomed children.

I am just scared of time and motivation and energy to write as I have been lately so tired and my life is messy right now. I know that I can write 50K in two weeks if I just get inspired and story takes me away with it. So I am not giving up on this one. I could try both ideas and see what will get me going.

I think I need to get creative writer to get myself escape my real life for while in my own worlds. I haven't written a word yet but I shall stay confident. Let's be brave together!

Prologue

I decided to give you prologue of my nano camp novel though I do not know if it suits as one really as there is chapter before this but I haven't decided does it belong to novel in the end or was that just some stuff that I wrote just to get started. Maybe I will use some of that stuff into this prologue what I think is important or maybe this is then Chapter one. Anyway, here it is. 

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I was so sure about my decision, my judgement and punishment when I gave it to them. I thought that they would grow wiser and see what I wanted them to learn. All those Gods playing with their creations and children were merely pawns to their ultimate game plan, made for their image to worship their origins. Problem was with these two that they had separated their offspring in two teams. Sure they had different tasks for the world that they didn’t even create. It was my creation. It was my playground and I had been graceful enough to let them join in that playground keeping myself hidden, anonymous to them. As they had their purpose. One gave light and warmth at the daytime and gave good grounds for life, so did another one give light and serenity in the night time with her children so that there was nothing to be feared. Then there were seasons and their own little offspring that made weather and so on. It was all very beautiful and organized. I was happy very long time with all of this and I made my own little race to care about, humans. As I was wise enough to see that mortality may be blessing and it gives another kind of excitement to immortal kind. They show as passion, forgiveness, shame, love, sorrow in very different form. But before them my creation, my world was playground or should I say paradise to immortals. But it isn’t rare that in among immortals and their offspring there comes quarrel and discord between them and Sun and Moon were very different personalities altogether and I saw that it may become problem in time but I didn’t want to interfere. So I just watched as their offspring started to envy each other, compete against each other and oh how Moon and Sun loved that rivalry they had caused for them to enjoy. It was like soap opera and in the mean time they had time to snap at each other, they made their love poisonous. 

It all leaded to that fatal day when one of the Stars, Spica killed that poor innocent fairy princess by accident. But what I noticed and which alarmed me was lack of guilt she had. She was sorry for Chanda, the man she adored and loved as she knew that their fatal love story had just got killing strike by her actions but otherwise she was like her mother, cold and cruel and thought she was not to blame. Have to say, in the way she wasn’t, it was her parents fault in the end but this action made marks that will never heal. It was sign for me to start plan my actions as peace was lost and war begun. Sun hunted stars on the sky and cursed his wife. Moon commanded her offspring to revenge Sun’s wrathful vendetta. Fairies were the ones to pay the price of this massacre. 

I couldn’t watch it any longer, the whole world I had built for my children was about to burn to ashes and balance was lost. It was chaos that I couldn’t endure any longer. I didn’t want to banish Moon and Sun from my universe as they had their purpose in it so I had to make them learn their lesson by what they loved the most, by their children. Their children had to teach them that lesson and learn in same time to see the whole picture and have mercy on each other. 

I condemned Sun’s little sunshine’s to worship Moon as werewolves who gain their power to change their form by the Moon. Moon’s beloved Stars in other hand was cursed into vampires, those blood thirsty creatures that are powerful in the night time and Sun had to endure them in daylight but they were weak like mortals under the Sun, to feel his wrath and to be obedient and graceful to the Sun if wanting any favors from him. It was announced and put into action straight away. Their children lost their home by their parents and they lost their connection to the Moon and the Sun. Only I was there to deliver messages I saw necessary. For that purpose I originally created witches, mortals who had little amount of stardust or suns and on them accidentally so to speak. 

I thought this was good teaching lesson to them but I might have been awfully wrong after what happened next. I pray that the conclusion will play out well eventually or I have been the one to condemn my mortal offspring to their own doom without having any part on that tragedy. The story begins and I am watchful and patient as ever to see this play to go on it’s own course. 

This is my prologue to you dear readers. Show has begun.

Time is running out

“Tell me the story about how the Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.”

So it begins. Nano Camp. It is kind of irritating how little time I have to plan upcoming project and also knowing how little time I will have for writing irritates me as well but I have already won two nanowrimos and hit 50K mark in two weeks so I know that it isn't impossible to get anywhere if I want to. I made my goal 40K, I may change it but it gives me some time to lose by other stuff. I would love to challenge myself and put it 100K but I think my novel idea isn't now steady enough to get to that amount of words even as my idea is huge enough to have contuinity for next nano. I don't know, should I choose something that I will surely achieve or should I aim for the stars and accept that I might fail? 

So my Nano camp title is Our decades in the Sun. It is song by Nightwish and it kind of hit me. Myths and stories about Moon has always interested me and Hijo De La Luna song has haunted long time to be included in my stories. Earliest idea was about angels and demons, how son of the moon was the key to open hell's gates and fallen angels searched for this key. Well it didn't go further very much and I already have my own angel plot idea growing so why mix anymore these two.

As I have written down earlier how my two earlier novel's has been human only novels and 2015 nano was project which had roots very far away unlike last year's nano was something new. So I think it is good to take some ideas and inspiration from my past and make new receipt. So my story has Moon and Sun as lovers and stars and sunshine's/sun rays are their children.

A Native American myth says that the sun and moon are a chieftain and his wife and that the stars are their children. The sun loves to catch and eat his children, so they flee from the sky whenever he appears. The moon plays happily with the stars while the sun is sleeping. But each month, she turns her face to one side and darkens it (as the moon wanes) to mourn the children that the sun succeeded in catching.

Sun favors sunshine's and Moon stars obviously. But as Sun is short tempered and unforgiving character with really exploding anger tantrums and Moon in other hand was cold and cruel and thoughtless, their relationship was far from happiness and happily ever afters. Their children compete for their attention and love and they were like mirror of their parents as they were destructive to each other as much as they tried to love and have peace. Power more powerful than Moon and Sun decided to punish them or more likely to get them learn their lesson and find peace and cursed their children to bear their parent's wrong doings. That is how vampires and werewolves came to be. And it doesn't seem that they are redeeming their parents anytime soon.

So that is what I am working here. It still has lots of gaps and planning to be done but I think it will be good and fruitful to me as I have hoped my chance to get back to vampires and now as reading Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire and been watching True blood almost five seasons, I am inspired to get back to those creatures and there are new twists in them. You will see!

So happy hunting everyone, Nano Camp has begun!

Nano Camp ' 17

I didn't find motivation or time or anything for last nano camp in april so now my expectations are bigger for second round before NanoWrimo that is coming nearer and nearer. I have lots of ideas but how hard it is to find inspiration to get it done. My angels and demons which was supposed to be last year's nano project is still waiting to be done but maybe this year I will get excited about them.

But I have been writing already two nano's with humans only scenario. I loved my first nanowrimo winning novel in 2016 as that project had lived so many phases and lives and it kind of lived it's own life and I think if I would start it again, it would go totally different path again. It has not ending yet so there is chance to continue with those characters, even as I feel like the spark that made me love that story has already been told. But it can wait there that I find ending to it or even sequel. 

Last year's nanowrimo novel which also won was kind of inspirited by Gatsby and fifty shades of grey, yeah I know that book and movie series sucked but I wanted to create something even better. It had ending but it is open for sequels as well. Though I didn't get too keen to those characters and that novel definitely needs re-write before moving on I have planned to combine those too nano novels together somehow, I actually have idea, it is megalomanic though as it would be telling multiple character stories in little town. But maybe I will do that one day as well.

It isn't my project next month as I have decided to return to one of my most loved characters in the whole universe, vampires. And werewolves. This story has it's inspiration from True blood little bit as I have been watching that series now like maniac and also I would think that all those vampire books I have read, mostly by Anne Rice will give me some inspiration to go on. But also now I have chance to do one idea I had long time ago finally in paper in different form. As I am always loved tales about Moon and the Sun. And Hijo de la Luna song inspirited me once to create novel idea. Now plot is totally different and characters but still I can use some of that little novel idea to it. I am happy about that. So we will have Sun, Moon and vampires and werewolves. 

I am thrilled what kind of story this shall be and will it have sequel as my nanowrimo project or something else. There is so much to write about and history and elements that I think I won't get everything done in one month. So maybe I should think that I will write middle part now and then I can write prologue and ending another time. 

Writing is one of my dearest passions and I think it is time to enjoy that progress as movies and TV series has taken their share. And then I need to find time for reading!