I'm having NaNo cold feet. I'm furiously planning to plunge headlong into a different view of Victorian England, yet... Yet.. there's this other thing going on in my noggin that might be fun too. My muse took an unexpected Right Turn.

It's something more pulpy. Something more... Casablanca/Indiana Jones meets Charlie's Angels. What about three Jessica Rabbit looking ladies out to conquer the 1950's world with derringers hidden in their cleavage and tommy guns hidden... uh.. look, I'm just throwing things out here, okay? Work with the Wench ;)

No, really.. WHO is on first!?

Here's the way the story rolls today.
Mason, meet Ash. Ash meet Riordan. Riordan meet Mason.

Riordan, be witty, sexy, and mysterious. Mason, be dark, hot and broody.
Ash, be a heroine and kick everyone's ass and take no prisoners... and do it with style, would ya? 

What I thought was going to be a story about Mason and Ash turned into Ash and Riordan? Is this his story? Does Riordan need to be the guy in charge or Mason? Does Mason ride off into the sunset and pick up some other girl on the way by? Or does Riordan step aside from Ash to give him a chance? Does Ash say "to hell with you both," and start up her own Murder For Hire business in the deep south?

I seriously don't know. Pesky Pesky.


This is what I get for picking up a manuscript I haven't looked at in a month, less than a week before NaNoWriMo. Now my fingers are all itchy to figure out Who's On First and I can't spend too much time with them after the first of November. Well, obviously I could (and probably will,) but I probably should have left well enough alone.

Well, as you've hopefully seen on my website, I'm trying out NaNoWriMo this year and I'm a bit nervous. I've never really pushed myself to do anything specific when it came to writing. I tend to write as it comes to me. I write furiously as the muse is chatty and then when its silent... it's very silent. I could go for days without writing something.

So, NaNo is going to be a test. I have to finish the revisions I've been putting off for my first manuscript by the 31st. Not only is it a test of my deadline abilities, I've decided I'm going to try something completely new in terms of storyline. I tend to stick with the paranormal (non-vamp) genre, because I feel that I know it. But if I'm taking risks, and it's really just for me, why not?

My plot is going to be something I know little about and in a genre I've never written in. Sci-fi/Fantasy. Steampunk in specific.

Yes, Virginia. I've jumped the brass goggled shark.

I'm very interested in the whole thing; fashion, gadgets etc, and I just wanted to feel the tiniest bit involved in the scene, as it were.

I figure, if I'm going to push myself for a month, why not go all out. Push myself to finish my first work completely. Push myself to write an entire novel in 30 days, and choose a genre I will have to force myself to learn about in the process.

I may post excerpts of the steam powered train wreck so keep an eye on updates.


P.S. If I fail, will you still love me?