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I was catching up with my brother and his wife the other week. They both live in the US so we do not get the chance to blether. My sister in law reminded me that this would be a good time to knock my old Nanowrimo into some sort of shape.


My sister in law is a successful author and has written many novels. They range from old fashioned crime in the style of Agatha Christie to modern thrillers. A few years back I attempted the Nanowrimo challenge of writing 50k words in one month. The challenge appealed to me and I thought I could do 50K. I have always wanted to write something that involved time travel/fantasy. So I plumped my self down on November Ist and went for it. I had no plant a rough outline in my head. I would not even say it was an outline. The story had immortal beings, it was set in Edinburgh in the present and the late 1780s. The story is about bad immortals wanting to return the world supernatural to our world. It's about good people trying to stop them. I am not exactly selling it am I. As I said I was an utter panster and let my imagination GO... 

By the time I had got to the end of the month, I had well over 50k but I had not even got the middle of my story. So the following year I wrote for another month of a sprawling mess. When I finished it the complete story was up to well over 140k words in total. It was the first draft and like all first drafts, it was almost unreadable. I sent my sister in law the first part thinking she would give polite comments. She actually went through the entire thing with notes and hints on where to improve the story. That is where I left it, sitting on my hard drive for a few years. I did attempt another story for the following year. I wrote a messy story about a bunch of teenagers from a small town in Fife. The kids become vigilantes. Picking off an international drug gang that is using a luxury hotel as a cover. There were elements of fantasy again in it because I happen to like that genre. This story was never finished, as I was not sure where to start the bloody thing.

 I am now looking at the first time traveling story. I want to edit it down so it is less of a sprawling mess and then get someone to read it. Part of me wants to try self-pub, nothing serious just a bit fun. I should have done this months ago I hear you all saying. I will post up little exerts here and there and see what happens.

I have added a link to this wee blog to my twitter handle to see if people will click and read my ramblings here. So far, by the looks of it no one has seen this blog. This does not bother me in the slightest. I rather like the idea of people stumbling about the internet and falling here by accident. Saying that though if you do stumble here leave a comment saying where you came from. Even if you have only read one sentence that is enough!

Take care and be well! 

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