It’s done! I did it! Hit the big 50k word mark in thirty days! The T-shirt is on the way!
Here are all of the stories that I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2020:
- “Lord of the Slaves” (about 9,200 words)
- “The Real Hell” (about 3,700 words)
- “The Scales of the Space Whale” (about 9,800 words)
- “A Fatal Rebirth” (about 1,000 words)
- “The Manchurian Paradox” (about 4,000 words)
- “Schrödinger’s Diaper” (about 800 words)
- “The End of Elysium” (about 9,000 words)
- “The Final Turning” (about 1,800 words)
The difference was made up by six stream-of-consciousness character interview exercises that I did for the main viewpoint characters in my current WIP, Queen of the Falconstar. Final word count for NaNoWriMo 2020: 50,044.
My favorite story to write was probably “The Scales of the Space Whale,” an upbeat humorous space opera piece, but “The End of Elysium” was a close second. That one is a post-apocalyptic piece, very reminiscent of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and I wrote both stories with help from the Mythulu cards.
All of these stories are going to need some serious revision before I feel that they’re ready to submit. But at a rate of 1-2 stories per month, that shouldn’t be too hard to do.
This was a lot of fun! I definitely would like to do it again next year.
Grats Joe 🙂