As some of you may have read on my Writing page or a few posts ago, this year I’m intending to write 20,000 words per month as part of a group of several writers in my area, 5,000 a month each to novels and to short stories.

I will be making these daily posts every day I actually get around to writing, to update my word count and talk about what I’ve been writing.

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Categories: writing | Tags: 20k, music magic, nanowrimo, writing by Ian McEwen
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Hello and welcome; you’ve reached my writing page. Here, once such things become available, there will be descriptions of finished works (as well as works in progress), with links to anything that might become published. For now, this is just a page that’s here to remind me, and you, that I should be writing, and to inform you the reader of what should be appearing. If you’d like to nudge me even more sharply, or ask any questions, feel free to send me an email or an instant message by way of the Contact page.

20k

Yes, as in twenty thousand — this is the number of words myself and a few others thought would be reasonable for a month (at least for a little bit). Eliza has been kind enough to put together a little site for the whole idea, complete with web-stickers when goals are completed. I will (hopefully) be adding stickers all year, right below this paragraph.

Works and worlds in progress — my various playpens

• Music Magic - This is a world I first visualized in a short story in the months before NaNoWriMo 2006 and then continued during NaNoWriMo; my current project within this world is an as-yet-unnamed story of as-yet-unknown length focusing on the main character of the original story. The beginnings of a novel I wrote during NaNoWriMo are currently on a back burner, but may be rewritten some time later this year.
• Musical, Magical Sabotage - Tried this story first during a 25,000 word competition I did several summers ago with a group of folks; it is about a girl who discovers her mother is a magician when her competence at piano playing comes under magical sabotage. The daughter then works her way through and around a corrupt national and world structure of magicians as part of her own learning process as a magician (and ultimately to clear up the mess). Setting is our own world, modern times.
• Caribbean Fantasy - NaNoWriMo 2007 - On a whim, I decided to attempt to write fantasy in a Caribbean-island setting; plot-wise the story is a generic clearing-up of some particularly nasty magical corruption in the world. Other interesting novelties (at least within my own writing) include some romantic elements and a group of major characters rather than a single protagonist.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 20k, caribbean fantasy, goals, music magic, musical magical sabotage, nanowrimo, writing by Ian McEwen
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