So it’s the second of November… and I’m not writing a novel. *shudder*

It feels so strange not to be writing this year. Something feels missing not having every evening, every thought, and every moment of the month of November consumed by writing. Not devoting all my time to creative writing just feels weird.

I’m, of course, better for not doing it. I’m not the nicest person when I’m consumed by 30 days of writing.

So to feel some sort of accomplishment, and to satiate the desire to write, I’ll link to the first drafts of the previous two novels of years past.

Rusted Halo (a revenge story)

Bag of Snow (a love story)

After much pain and suffering (at least it felt that way), I have met the NaNoWriMo 2005 challenge and my second novel, Bag of Snow, has reached the 50,000 word mark.

Yay!

It ends on a cliffhanger, so I still have at least 2 more chapters to write. Hopefully I’ll get to those in the middle of December.

Against my better judgement, I’m still hanging in there with the whole NaNoWriMo thing. Why? No clue. I guess I don’t want to fail…

As of this post, I’ve finally caught up with the necessary daily word count since the start of the ‘competition’. So far about 22000 words, almost half way.

If you’d like, you can read the story in progress via the link below.

Bag of Snow

After some deliberation, I’ve decided to continue with NaNoWriMo. Or at least, I’ll try to.

I almost didn’t write tonight, but with a newspaper article about the event and the fact that the word count graph is now online I decided to make a go. I decided to forego a bit of sleep so that I could get a couple of words down.

Not too shabby to be starting in the middle of the night.

Start reading Bag of Snow.

How long has it been since an update…? 68 days!?! Maybe I should finally publish the new main site’s layout versus hesitating until it’s all done. Well it’ll have to wait until December at the least.

Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and set up a new side blog for this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge. This year I hope to write a happier, more uplifting story. It is still in the same universe as Rusted Halo, but a much different tone. I’m looking forward to writing it, but I don’t have a solid roadmap for the plot like I did last year…

Today marks the 8th year that this website has been online in some shape or form. Even the very first bit of content is still online. No surprise eh?

I still plan on adding a “real” blog. Too bad work, life, and especially video games get in the way.

It is also too bad that you have to have regular visitors in order to want to update, and you need updates in order to have regular visitors.

Here it is 1:30 am in the morning of December 1, 2004 and I’ve just published the final chapter of Rusted Halo.

I didn’t just want to hit that magical 50k mark, but I also wanted to have a complete story.

That is what I ended up with late on November 30th.

Now all that is left is to edit the beast, and get a few copies of it printed. If you are interested in a print copy, please feel free to let me know.

Here is it, like 2 AM and I have just finished posting the last bit of Rusted Halo to get me over the 50,000 word mark! The story isn’t finished, it’s close, but I’ll be finishing it within the next two days.

Amazing that this huge weight is now off of my shoulders. I’m not done yet thought, I have to write the climax yet.

As of Tuesday night, I was at 28,000+ words for my novel Rusted Halo. That is over halfway through the whole NaNoWriMo project. I’m feeling pretty good about it as a whole, and I think the detail and plot are very strong. The theme and concepts might not be appealing to everyone, but I beleive its a great read regardless.

Of course with the writing, I have been neglecting my poor video games. Halo 2 goes completely unplayed, whereas Half Life 2 has only received about 10 minutes of my time. Sorry guys. I’ll get to you eventually.

I broke the 12,000 word count this Sunday. I’m really starting to like the story I’m writing, and looking forward to the next batch of content that’s coming up. The next chapter is going to be a turning point for the protagonist, and is something I’ve been planning since the beginning. We’ll have to see if I like him after I write the chapter…

In other news, I bought a old art nouveau poster for my home office. It’s the standard Le Chat Noir by Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. It makes the room look so much bigger, the ceiling is vaulted, and I can see getting more poster prints mounted along side of it in the future.