Intro and week 1

What is Nano?What's the story about?

Nano: Nano stands for National Novel Writing Month. It's an online community that meets in November to write a novel - or at least begin one. The goal is 50,000 words in 30 days. There is no prize for winning, except an image, a certificate, and the satisfaction of having done it. Why do it? We're all insane. No, seriously...! It is a wonderful way to turn off that "inner editor" and learn to write no matter what. To just. keep. going. To not crush the Muse under the weight of anything, internal or external, but to give her wings and let her fly.

If you want more details, check out the website at nanowrimo.org. And if you're a writer, why not consider joining up? If you do and want to "buddy" me, my ID there is Hikarikat.

The Dawn Dragon: This is my 6th Nano, and it will be, like my first one, a quest fantasy. It's ambitious in that I will be telling the story from the point of view of 10 different people, so it'll be hard - but one thing Nano is good for is to try the totally crazy thing you've been too chicken to try before.

The story - thumbnail version - takes place on a huge island with a mountain in the middle, in which two dragons fight each other every 200 years to determine which will rule the earth. Each dragon calls 5 humans to help it. One of the dragons is "good" in that it likes humans, and the other is "bad" in that it doesn't like humans much. The leader of each set of 5 humans has to seek out the other four and get them to the mountain in time for the fight, and obviously the "bad 5" try to stop the "good 5". And that's about it. The tale is in the details....

If you're interested, I'll be posting my progress on ScribblerKat each night, including my word count. I've posted a kind of rough "intro" already, just something I put together to solidify the background for me, not actually part of the story. I'll put links at the top of this page each week, as well. Just, please remember that this is RAW stuff, completely unedited. Thanks!

(The word count goal for each day is not even because I take into account the number of hours I can expect to actually write. On weekdays, one hour is all I can manage, but on the weekends and the vacation week I always take, I can write for several hours.)