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Today is June 24th. Only 129 days remain before the beginning of this year's National Novel Writing Month. Sounds like a long time when you put it like that doesn't it? It will fade away quickly enough. That's four months left to plan and prepare.
Even if I never finish any of the novels I start in this annual challenge I do so enjoy the planning phase.
Anyway there are now 21 pilots in total for my crazy pseudo-mechs. Some of them have some backstory and family history worked out. Others have merely a line or two with a couple character traits. I have a rough idea where in the world each one starts out. Introducing conflict is easy with my convienent planet-wide alien attack.
The world this novel takes place on is only sparsely populated. There are 5 continents in total but one is a polar region and is uninhabitated. On the other continents there are, of course, areas inhospitable for humans such as deserts, high altitudes, and regions under permafrost. Actually looking over my rough maps just now I realized there is a desert region on each continent save for the southern one. That one doesn't really count being 90% glaciated.
Most of the action will be limited to one continent primarily to save myself from a huge headache. Out of all the areas on this continent perhaps the most intriguing for me is a heavily forested area created when I wrote a note to myself for one of the characters that their town existed on the edge of a huge dark forest filled with danger. So cliché yet intriguing. I promised myself I won't get too crazy with thinking of monstrous horrors to fill the forests but considering that during the intial confusion some people will seek refuge in this forest it would probably help if I had some idea about what lives there. It's certainly not kittens and faeries.
Even if I never finish any of the novels I start in this annual challenge I do so enjoy the planning phase.
Anyway there are now 21 pilots in total for my crazy pseudo-mechs. Some of them have some backstory and family history worked out. Others have merely a line or two with a couple character traits. I have a rough idea where in the world each one starts out. Introducing conflict is easy with my convienent planet-wide alien attack.
The world this novel takes place on is only sparsely populated. There are 5 continents in total but one is a polar region and is uninhabitated. On the other continents there are, of course, areas inhospitable for humans such as deserts, high altitudes, and regions under permafrost. Actually looking over my rough maps just now I realized there is a desert region on each continent save for the southern one. That one doesn't really count being 90% glaciated.
Most of the action will be limited to one continent primarily to save myself from a huge headache. Out of all the areas on this continent perhaps the most intriguing for me is a heavily forested area created when I wrote a note to myself for one of the characters that their town existed on the edge of a huge dark forest filled with danger. So cliché yet intriguing. I promised myself I won't get too crazy with thinking of monstrous horrors to fill the forests but considering that during the intial confusion some people will seek refuge in this forest it would probably help if I had some idea about what lives there. It's certainly not kittens and faeries.
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