As Camp NaNoWriMo creeps ever closer, I am left with a difficult question – what the hell do I write? In my last post, I wrote about my Elfpunk idea. Well, an older idea that I had has clawed it’s way out of the cobwebbed recesses of my mind, and now I’m way more inspired about it, than I am about The Beautiful Blessed, the elfpunk story.
I’m tentatively referring to this other story idea as Of Life & Death, though I’d like something different, ideally, for the title. The main character is a necromancer, and there’s a great deal of magic and such in it, but the story involves a lot of politics, and war from a political perspective. Also religious persecution, and disillusionment, and it’s also a bit of a coming of age story, at least at the beginning. So, as you can see, it’s pretty developed in my mind.
What lead to this sort of realization that I had a choice to make was my own desire to plot out my story. Outlines aren’t for me – I’ve tried them, and they don’t work. So I thought about it, and the perfect thing came to mind – a wiki. So I did a bit of research on creating free, and even more importantly, private, wiki’s, and found wikidot. I’ll probably write another post about how I use it, in detail, but for now it is enough to say that this is how I want to plot stories forever. I’m also currently researching other wiki hosting services, as wikidot only allows you to create five wikis, and I’m not sure that’s enough for me.
In any case, I first started a wiki which would contain the languages I’m working on creating, however incomplete they may end up being. The I made one fore my Elfpunk story, and I had a realization. I had a world, yes, but no plot and no character ideas.
Which is a problem, really.
So, I decided to let the story sit in the back of my mind for a bit, to let it develop. Lacking anything else to do, except for the important things like college, I remembered the older Necromancy story, and decided to pull it out. I made it it’s very own wiki, and starting edited it, based on the notes that I had in scrivener. And ideas just started pouring out, really.
So now I’m not sure which one to do.
I’m leaning towards the necromancy story, because I feel that it is more developed. Then I can keep working on developing the elfpunk story, until November if needed, or even longer.
Oh, writer problems.