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Oct. 29th, 2009 06:09 pmRain again. If the forecast is correct, buckets of it. We have a flood watch, but looking at the amounts of snow falling in the western plains and the tornado warnings in Arkansas and Louisiana, I guess I won't complain. Rain is an excuse to do things indoors, after all, and the NaNo starts in a little over two days.
While it would be cheating to start writing now, it's permissible to outline or to define characters and situations. I rarely work from much more than a character or two and a situation, though the first Argos story had me outlining ahead before long to make sure all the bits fell together. This year's story is another trip back in time relative to the Argos and Fennec we first met. I don't think Argos will appear, though he might creep in unexpectedly. Fennec has a cameo, and Hammel a significant role though he isn't the main protagonist.
ARROW: A College Tail takes place while Fennec and Hammel are attending college in the coastal town of Chatton. The complicated plot involves raccoons, wolves, fraternities, an apparent case of what, for want of a better word, I will call lycanthropy, and a series of murders in which all the victims are students and deer (roe deer to be precise.) The unfolding crimes seem to mimic a similar series of events that took place a century earlier and were mostly hushed up. We will learn how Hammel and Fennec first met, and see Hammel involved in his first (though unofficial) crime investigation. The real protagonist, though, is a young raccoon student who wishes with all his heart that he had been born a wolf. There may be some puns and humorous situations, but the overall tale is quite serious and intense. Sexual innuendo, hazing, and apparent speciesism or racism are factors.
I hope that those who have followed previous NaNo efforts will be with me for this one. I have kept the conclusions of the previous stories off the web in hopes that they will be published in print, but this year I promise a full conclusion and denouement. It will be in draft form, certainly, and may not be left online for long, but you will get to see the resolution. I am not attending a convention in November, nor am I building a fursuit. I expect to complete the entire story in the 30 days of allotted time. Join me for the fun (unless, of course, you are busy writing your own.)
While it would be cheating to start writing now, it's permissible to outline or to define characters and situations. I rarely work from much more than a character or two and a situation, though the first Argos story had me outlining ahead before long to make sure all the bits fell together. This year's story is another trip back in time relative to the Argos and Fennec we first met. I don't think Argos will appear, though he might creep in unexpectedly. Fennec has a cameo, and Hammel a significant role though he isn't the main protagonist.
ARROW: A College Tail takes place while Fennec and Hammel are attending college in the coastal town of Chatton. The complicated plot involves raccoons, wolves, fraternities, an apparent case of what, for want of a better word, I will call lycanthropy, and a series of murders in which all the victims are students and deer (roe deer to be precise.) The unfolding crimes seem to mimic a similar series of events that took place a century earlier and were mostly hushed up. We will learn how Hammel and Fennec first met, and see Hammel involved in his first (though unofficial) crime investigation. The real protagonist, though, is a young raccoon student who wishes with all his heart that he had been born a wolf. There may be some puns and humorous situations, but the overall tale is quite serious and intense. Sexual innuendo, hazing, and apparent speciesism or racism are factors.
I hope that those who have followed previous NaNo efforts will be with me for this one. I have kept the conclusions of the previous stories off the web in hopes that they will be published in print, but this year I promise a full conclusion and denouement. It will be in draft form, certainly, and may not be left online for long, but you will get to see the resolution. I am not attending a convention in November, nor am I building a fursuit. I expect to complete the entire story in the 30 days of allotted time. Join me for the fun (unless, of course, you are busy writing your own.)
