I Am Writing A Novel About Envelopes - Seriously
Today is my half birthday. Not that this is important to NANOWRIMO but since I no longer write on LiveJournal much, I decided to post it here on Retentivewrimo.
More important than today to nearly everyone else writing a Nano in Chicago was that our kickoff party was yesterday evening. I went to this amazing yearly event at the Double Door afterwards (a concert where six bands dress up as six other bands and play a mini-set of nothing but the other band's songs - which this year included covers of Pearl Jam, Culture Club, The Misfits, and Alice Cooper) so this is the first chance I've had to write about it.
We officially announced that Chicago is battling both New York City and Toronto this year. That was a lot of stress on Friday since I wasn't sure a three way battle was going to work (irony, my novel is about a love triangle). But in the end I think it's going to be fun to battle two teams at once. Thankfully it's not battling them combined.
Rematching Toronto will certainly be interesting. There is a bit of bad blood there due to how some people on Toronto conducted themselves in 2006. But I don't think that person is around this year. 12-year olds have short attention spans.
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The new ML threw together quite a shindig at the Uptown Writer's headquarters.
I completely forgot to take out my camera, however. So unlike last year, there's no documentation that it ever happened. There were a few familiar faces but a lot of new ones as well. Really I think there were only about four people left from my first NANO party (the TGIO party in 2004).
I ended up in a little group in a corner with my friend Samantha (this is her first year after she thought about it the last two) and a guy from NPR (well, freelance).
It was during the conversation we were having the last hour of the party or so that I finally came up with a novel idea.
It's a little bit weird. But I am writing in humor and satire so I can kind of get away with it and still be considered fiction and not fantasy.
The main two characters in my novel are going to be Netflix envelopes. Or, well, envelopes from a movies-by-mail company very similar to Netflix. One is going to be a romance envelope and one is going to be an action/adventure envelope.
How to actually make a system of delivery where the same envelope gets sent to different addresses is going to be the issue. Maybe they'll be Netflix-esque sleeves.
Anyhow, they'll be anthropomorphic. And I think the metaphor goes along with my original thought of the difference in language between men and women.
There is going to be a parellel human storyline (this was something I discussed with my friend Kim, a short story writer, at the bar yesterday and she thinks it's a crucial thing) but this will be the first time I have a non-human protagonist. Though it's not an elf or anything.
I think the hardest thing to do is not have the story turn into "Cars." But at least I'm off and running with the idea.
More important than today to nearly everyone else writing a Nano in Chicago was that our kickoff party was yesterday evening. I went to this amazing yearly event at the Double Door afterwards (a concert where six bands dress up as six other bands and play a mini-set of nothing but the other band's songs - which this year included covers of Pearl Jam, Culture Club, The Misfits, and Alice Cooper) so this is the first chance I've had to write about it.
We officially announced that Chicago is battling both New York City and Toronto this year. That was a lot of stress on Friday since I wasn't sure a three way battle was going to work (irony, my novel is about a love triangle). But in the end I think it's going to be fun to battle two teams at once. Thankfully it's not battling them combined.
Rematching Toronto will certainly be interesting. There is a bit of bad blood there due to how some people on Toronto conducted themselves in 2006. But I don't think that person is around this year. 12-year olds have short attention spans.
---
The new ML threw together quite a shindig at the Uptown Writer's headquarters.
I completely forgot to take out my camera, however. So unlike last year, there's no documentation that it ever happened. There were a few familiar faces but a lot of new ones as well. Really I think there were only about four people left from my first NANO party (the TGIO party in 2004).
I ended up in a little group in a corner with my friend Samantha (this is her first year after she thought about it the last two) and a guy from NPR (well, freelance).
It was during the conversation we were having the last hour of the party or so that I finally came up with a novel idea.
It's a little bit weird. But I am writing in humor and satire so I can kind of get away with it and still be considered fiction and not fantasy.
The main two characters in my novel are going to be Netflix envelopes. Or, well, envelopes from a movies-by-mail company very similar to Netflix. One is going to be a romance envelope and one is going to be an action/adventure envelope.
How to actually make a system of delivery where the same envelope gets sent to different addresses is going to be the issue. Maybe they'll be Netflix-esque sleeves.
Anyhow, they'll be anthropomorphic. And I think the metaphor goes along with my original thought of the difference in language between men and women.
There is going to be a parellel human storyline (this was something I discussed with my friend Kim, a short story writer, at the bar yesterday and she thinks it's a crucial thing) but this will be the first time I have a non-human protagonist. Though it's not an elf or anything.
I think the hardest thing to do is not have the story turn into "Cars." But at least I'm off and running with the idea.
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