Plans for November
So the creative month of November is upon us once more. This year, I have decided that not only am I partaking of the madness that is NaNoWriMo but I am also going to attempt the 30 Characters Challenge. This should ensure that my creative juices are well and truly flowing by the end of the month; or possibly that I’ve totally burned out by the middle of the first week and I don’t do anything else for the rest of the year. Only time will tell.
For NaNo, I’m trying my hand at a horror novel; just like I’ve done for the past three years. In fact, it is the same horror novel. I never get to the end of it (I actually won NaNo in my first year but didn’t finish the novel) and restart it every year. This year will be the last time I do that, I swear. If I don’t finish the book this time, I’m going to have to face up to the fact that I never will. Then it will be time to move on to something else.
I’m semi-pantsing it this year, as usual. I have no plot outline, just an idea of where the story is going and who will be in it. The actual minutiae are not set in stone though, so with any luck I’ll enjoy ploughing through to see where the thing goes as much as any potential reader will.
As for the 30 Character Challenge, I intend to use this as a way of getting a host of characters prepared for use in Ink Proof Cannon when it launches in January. For those of you who don’t know what that is (and there will be many, I’m sure), Ink Proof Cannon is my new anthology webcomic. I have a friend interested in producing the art for one of the stories (a science fiction story involving bounty hunters, revenge tales and lots of mutants) but I’m doing the rest myself. I’ll therefore need to get my act together if I’m going to have these characters designed in time, and a 30 Characters in 30 Days style challenge seems like just what the doctor ordered.
I’ll keep you posted on how I get on.
Tags: art, challenges, comics, Curse of the Other World, design, drawing, Ink Proof Cannon, NaNoWriMo, novel, writing
