drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
November 15: Passed the 25K mark. Whew! I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. 25K to go, but Thanksgiving break is coming up, so I have hope.
I’ve got a clearer idea of what this strange world looks like now — a bit like a Ptolomeaic model of the universe, except each ring is […]
drupagliassotti @ October 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Last night I put some more thought into my NaNo story. Here’s my tentative cast of characters:
ARIHANT: Our Hero, a bitter-hearted daeva of the Avenger.
MADAN: The enthusiastic boy who decides to become Arihant’s beloved.
RAJANI: The amused female warrior who is acting as Arihant’s & Madan’s guide/guardian in exchange for having a crime […]
drupagliassotti @ September 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Hmm, I was digging through my folders and forgot this one. Here’s an excerpt. I have a first chapter and a little of a second, but no real plot outline.
[…] The top of the tower was ringed by a narrow balcony. A door stood in one wall, and the tower itself rose up one […]
drupagliassotti @ September 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
and I are too often on the same wavelength, which I guess is what happens when you bounce ideas off each other all the time. She’s thinking about doing something draconic and the draconic idea is coming thru in the high-fantasy novel idea I’m tinkering with for NaNo, but I’ll try to downplay it. […]
drupagliassotti @ September 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So, as the weather slowly becomes more autumnal here in SoCal, a writer’s thoughts turn inevitably toward National Novel Writing Month in November. I have three ideas bouncing around my head right now.
(1) A high-fantasy novel in a hollow world consisting of nine concentric orbs, each ruled by a corypheus: the Maiden, the Avenger, the […]