Yes it's been a while since I blogged here, but now that I am no longer blogging professionally, I thought it high time to return to good ol' Game Nouveau. I am currently working the skeleton of a sequel to my 2007 novel, tentatively entitled Shadow of the Rose. This will be the first of the novels in the series to be set in a completely new world, one created by my husband. It's a massive challenge, writing inside someone else's world, but I realized something yesterday: I can make it my own, and if he doesn't like what I make of it, then this will stay unofficial fan fiction instead of canon and lore.
Tonight I am sitting down doing some world building, even though the outline is far from finished. I figured that these sorts of gems will make it easier to write the outline, as I need a bit of action in what is largely a personality drama wrapped in a fantasy setting. I'm halfway through my list of curiosities, and so far they are interesting enough to build a couple scenes from, which is ultimately the point. If I am not invested in the world, I cannot expect my characters to want to spend time there.
So I'm going back to it. Despite so much happening in my life, despite the marriage and the move and the unemployment and culinary school, it's important to me that Nano go on. That means that I have three days to formulate a road map, a plan, and a semblance of a synopsis before October 31st. Can it be done? Certainly. Will it be done? That remains to be seen.
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