“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!
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