I wanted a nano, and instead I have to write a novel.

[f4f3]

Due to a confusion on the web-site (NaNoWriMo) I am not getting an extremely small mp3 player after all, and instead I've signed up to write a novel in a month. Well, 50,000 words.

This gives me a chance to get my Sergio Leone/Hunter S Thompson/Laurel and Hardy tribute written, which has ben niggling at me ever since my friend Bill ranted so entertainingly about why Fantasy is in such a bad way...

At the moment I know that it's got two main characters, someone has an impotency curse laid on him in chapter one, it features a stable lad who is not a secret darling of destiny, and a character called The Man With The Map.

Does that count as an outline?

Oh, and it's going to be called "Never Apologise, Never Explain", since I'll have no time to re-write or edit myself...

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I LIKE my title. It certainly suits what I plan to write.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

It's counter-cultural for the genre, methinks. But I expect Tolkien's publisher gave him untold grief for 'The Fellowship of the Ring'.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well, the full quote runs something like "Never apologise, never explain, and never leave any live witnesses." which is much more appropriate, but there will be a fair bit of genre bending going on anyway...

[liadnan]

Nah. 'twas their (Allen & Unwin as was) choice. He gave them untold grief about "Return of the King" because it gave too much away, he thought.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Not an accusation that could be levelled at The Silmarillion.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I miss my old copy of the Silmarillion.... it was a lovely size and weight. Oh, and I liked bits of the inside too...