As always, my fingers hate typing out NaNoWriMo. It’s as hard to type as it is fun to say. Maybe I should make a macro for it or something.
On Day 1 I started work on The Capitol Dome. It’s about a dome-like object that appears in The Ellipse (the park near The White House made famous in The Day the Earth Stood Still, as that’s where the ship lands). I managed 253 words (out of a daily goal of 1667) before sputtering to an end for the evening.
Today I scrapped the whole thing and started over by co-opting a short story I wrote a few years back called “The Dream of the Buckford County Church”. With a slightly altered title I feel this can be expanded to a full length novel. The best part, though, is it will be a freaky and fun thing to work on, just what I need for a NaNoWriMo project. I’ll probably know by the weekend if this is going to work or not but I am cautiously optimistic, a marked improvement from the rain clouds hovering over me earlier this evening.
