Just made myself a nice background for the G1 [whom I have yet to name...]. With Nano and Christmas coming up, I’m rocking the ‘Don’t panic, it’s gonna be fine’ philosophy.

[Images nabbed rather shamelessly from the internet. Sorry original CC holder, I can't find you]

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I can’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I’m the official Municipal Liaison for Dorset. To this end I’ve organised… stuff, but the best part? I got interviewed today by my local paper It went really well, and I surprised myself by how much I talked about nanoing, everything I do, and myself generally. I also got in a couple of plugs for protagonize.com and the G3 Show. She seemed really impressed by how young I am compared with how much I’ve written and organised. She was also really friendly, which was good because I was so nervous to start with She said hopefully this’ll be in the paper the first week of November, as she’ll get the photographer to meet me at Borders before the kick-off party.

And so to the new idea. Well, not quite such a new idea, but something I’ve been toying with for a while, that both Andy and the interviewer said I should do over the fiction idea. It’s for a non-fiction book called ‘housework for the engineer’, and is going to be a technical style manual for people like Andy who need very detailed instructions on how to do IRL stuff. This does make me a Nano Rebel technically, but Nano has always been for me the time when I sit down to do what I wouldn’t otherwise, and this is a prime example

We’ll see how it goes I guess. And if I can’t stretch it into 50k words, well I’ll just move on to the other one

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Well, I just wasn’t feeling the previous idea, so for the past week I had been bouncing between ah shit, and oh hell with it. But I think I have an idea now. I wanted to write about the lesbian land pirates again, cuz they were cool, and I sorta had this idea for a couple of characters and dragons made from cloud, but I couldn’t find a way to string them together. But from a discussion with andy, plotting machine that he is found a way to weave them together, into a sort of fantasy/ steam punky way.

Unfortunately it’s a lot like ‘the last exile’ and one of the final fantasy games… So I’m not sure how I feel about that. But I guess we’ll see.

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I had no plot, I had no inspiration, both my muses are on holiday. I was worried I would have nothing to write about come November. But then someone in the nano forums pointed me towards this generator and I’m saved!

My title will be The Aeromancers. The synopsis: In a coal powered Victorian Britain a young milquetoast office drone stumbles across a exiled angel which spurs him into conflict with a megalomaniac dictator, with the help of a cherubic girl with pigtails and spunk and her welding gear, culminating in a philosophical discussion punctuated by violence.

What could be simpler!

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