Well I am signed up for this crazy thing where you write 50,000 words in a month, and instead of writing I have spent most of my time looking for a windows version of what my NaNo buddies (including Ms. Competing Blogger) claim is the best writing tool around: Scrivener. So far I am making do with Notepad++’s full-screen mode and it seems to be okay, but it lacks that ever-important polish. Which I suppose I can live without, seeing as Scrivener’s effective price-tag is $1038.95.
Still, my 50,000 words are in collaboration with the aforementioned Suburban Homeboy – the backstory to our combined efforts: A man is married to a woman, and he fathers a bastard. Trying to strike a balance between appeasing her, atoning for his carnal sin, and not turfing the bastard out onto the streets, he plans to bring the baby into their home when it is born. In anger she mothers a bastard – to his brother, the less principled of the two. Now, he doesn’t know she’s done it with his brother: all he knows is one more bastard. Fair’s fair, and so they have two kids of their own as well as the two bastards.
My story focuses on the life of the female bastard, daughter of the man, got by an irrelevant but comely woman. Homeboy’s story focuses on the life of the male bastard, got by the wife and the husband’s brother. They go their separate ways but have run-ins and crossovers. It’s exciting! And I would write it if I wasn’t so busy with Borderlands. Which, by the by, I should review sometime soon.
Tags: 50000wpm, author, bastard, nanowrimo, scrivener, story, story-writing, writing
November 13, 2009 at 1:32 am |
Haha you writ a word yet?