-Dr.Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters
Hooray.
I have three separate streams and channels of time with this story.
All in under two thousand words.
I'm not sure if that is a new record for complexity for me or not.
I've met the word quota but I'm still going to keep going.
I've never had THIS many mentees and people working on/with/talking to about Nanowrimo so I want the getting to be getting while it's to be had and good.
Somehow I managed to merge the idea of Gothic horror, time travel, Cthulhu Mythos and my little writing universe all together.
The novel is of course set in my universe of stories and is taking many cues from the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos. The first and what may be the most important part of the story takes place in the 1930's around
Miskatonic University. The second time line is in the early 2000's where it appears a writer's work is coming to life as he is writing it. The third timeline takes place in the 2010's and is about an investigation by a freelance agents trying to reconcile the events of the first two and how it was possible for something written around 80 years later could have the same date and times line up and in effect the document seem to be an exact retelling or somehow responsible for said horrific events.
Because the events were horrific.
Dead students, indescribable sentient black oozes and what appeared to be some manifestation of a nightmare that appeared part human and part insect.
But I digress.
It could be the pressure from life, school and trying to keep up with everyone but I have never written so much of a novel this quickly before.
I advise everyone doing this silly novel trip to seize upon the energy of this first week and TRY to get ahead! Right now the skies are clear, the birds are chirpping and this may seem like the best writing you have ever had.
But the second week is when things get insane.
We will not worry about the dreaded Week Two, so in the mean time write!
Frolic in the newness of the novel!
Enjoy the fact you ARE writing!
You are writing a novel, ergo you ARE a novelist!
Never let anyone tell you different!
Goodluck and Godspeed in writing!
-Matt
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