This is my 5th year taking on NaNoWriMo (sign up here! Go on!) and this year I am going to be taking the base layer of my NaNo'13 novel, now in 2 parts and further evolved, and continuing it along with a third part, 5 years into their future.
NaNo'13 I wrote about an Angel destined to live the rest of his life on Earth after being banished from the Golden Lands, a Fae girl who doesn't know she's Fae, and two Vampires with very different ideas on what is 'acceptable' behaviour, and how the lives of the four intersect and morph their futures. It's a mix of romance and paranormal adventure. I'm thrilled that I actually produced a semi decent manuscript at the conclusion of NaNo, using January to revisit and revise, editing heavily, rewriting huge chunks and remastering the characters into solid workable figures with personalities, lives and feelings.
In NaNo'14 I am going to bring their future to life, taking off on where my 2013 manuscript ended. My favourite character is my main character Kade, his pain is tangible while he's battling between head and heart to help Rayne with her identity, vs keeping her with him and away from her own kind forever. I love the scene I wrote when he takes her to the Fae boundary and she sees what her life could be like, except she'd lose everything over again, and their pain is so real, so stark. I quite like making my characters suffer.
NaNo'13 I found I needed a lot of 'inspirational' images to guide my writing and trigger ideas, so I've compiled a few I've found recently that have triggered my desire to write this novel, and has spurned my passion to delve headfirst back into this genre. I love the creative freedom I have, I can create my own types of Vampire, Fae, Wolf, I can mould them into whatever I want. "Sharks with lazerbeams!" always plays in my head when I think about this
