Here We Go Again

So it's October 1, and Nano is supposed to be officially opened today, but there's nothing there yet. I'm so sad.

Sometime in the second week of July, Mel and I went outside of our chateaux and began to plan our new nanonovels. This year I'm doing something different. There will be no more Seven Part 4... which was potentially about Snult finding a hord of dragon eggs.

Instead we're writing space opera. Yes, we. We're writing the same book, though 50 years apart. My main character, Ofelia Clovelly, is a New Historian on a colony ship called The Hope on a 20 year journey to a new planet. The Hope is the first of two ships (the other called The Crosby) that plans to set up a thriving colony on a distant planet. Unfortunately, The Hope Colony disappears and the only one on Earth who seems to care is Ofelia's distant relative Viola.

That's where Mel comes in. She's writing Viola's story and search for the lost colony... and I'm writing how the colony got lost...

Oh, but it gets more complex, because Natalie heard about the fun, and is joining in. She's writing the faux history perspective of Earth.

At the end of November, we should have 150,000 words and then we'll see how to weave them together and voila, a best seller.

Or that's the plan, anyway.

Things don't always go according to plan. Just ask Ofelia.

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