It seems that during my blog visiting lull, I was tagged in the Next Big Thing Blog Hop thanks to Ian over at Views from a Bald Patch. I'm way behind on following through with this, but I'll share my November NaNo Novel for what it's worth.
Why say it like that? Because for the past few days I'd rather clean toilets than work on this project. However, yesterday afternoon, thanks to a POV character change and some odd challenges that I was presented with, things finally started falling into place a little.
1. What is the working title of your book?
Jackson - I often name a WIP after the MC until an actual title hits me.
2. Where did the idea come from for this book?
Critique partners who suggested they would like to know more about the past of A Broken Race.
3. What genre does your book fall under?
At this point, the very broad: Speculative Fiction
4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I have honestly not given that any thought whatsoever.
5. What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Egads. I'm 5,440 words into this thing for heaven's sake. Uhhhhhh....
A virus culls the population until those considered flawed are the majority and now humanity must either attempt to regain their past glory or forge a new path into the unknown.
6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Let's just concentrate on completing the rough draft at this point, shall we?
7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
30 days, ideally.
8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Can't think of anything similar off the top of my head, though I'm sure there's something out there that hasn't crossed my reading pile yet.
9. Who or What inspired you to write this book?
I think we covered that in #2
10. What else about your book might pique the readers interest?
Underdogs get control of humanity. That's got to bring some triumphant feeling with it.
Jackson is currenly eeking along at 5,440 words. Jackson and Grace, two young people are getting thrown into situations by all sorts of well-meaning 'normal' people that will shape them into the foundation for a new world...set in the old one that is rapidly falling apart thanks to lots of bloody deaths and odd challenges from my regional challenge jar.
Yay for the underdogs! And I know what you mean about reluctance to work on a project until something "clicks". Sometimes it seems more like hard graft than we think it should :)
ReplyDeleteI think I just have too many projects that I'd like to be working on. I rebelled the last two years, so I really wanted to get back into the whole 'novel from the ground up' thing again this year. Honestly, my rebel projects were much easier. I think I've tasted the darkside and now I hunger for their cookies.
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