MaW’s NaNoWriMo

2008

For 2008 I anticipate being nearly as busy as I was in 2007, therefore I am not going to complain or be upset if I fail to complete it. In order to plan for this contingency, I'm going to write not one single novel but a collection of linked short stories, spanning various important points in the history of the setting used in my 2006 novel as revised by the last two years of thought. Therefore it won't fit into the continuity of the 2006 novel at all. This was of course the same setting as used in 2005 as well, but there have been substantial alterations since then. Worldweavers have given way to the Gifted, and the protagonist species is now actually a post-human reconstruction of humanity, thousands of years after a disaster forced them to flee the Milky Way.

The short stories themselves will cover points from the abandonment of Earth up to the 'present day', some twelve thousand or so years later, where they're back to the state where they can consider returning to the Milky Way, which will be the time that the next novel-length story is due to be set.

2007

Evidently I didn't update this page in 2007. I was extremely busy and only managed 30,000 words or so of a strange sort of fantasy story about a magical apocalypse. I may revisit the idea at some stage.

2006

For my fourth NaNoWriMo I'm working on a story tentatively titled The Stars Have No Voices, which admittedly sounds a little pretentious, but sort of fits what I'm trying to do. I do of course reserve the right to change it later, and perhaps I shouldn't even be thinking about titles yet, but it's helpful to have something to call the thing while I'm working on it. Having a title also makes my NaNoWriMo author profile page look nicer.

The setting is a revised version of the setting for last year's novel, and they don't both fit into the same continuity. In fact, there are actually alternate versions of a few of last year's main characters in this one, so don't even think about trying to figure out what's going on with their lives. They're different people, they just happen to be very similar and have the same names.

2005

This year my novel is entitled Weaver's Revelation. Set in a 'science fantasy' universe where high technology rubs shoulders with a subtle but powerful form of magic, it follows the travels of Taewyn, the Worldweaver Prime, as he sets out to find a way to avenge the murder of his wife. On the way, however, he discovers that there is a great deal more at stake, and the fate of the universe and the balance of power in the galaxy are both under threat.

You can read the entirely unedited version in either HTML (all on one big page) or PDF (for which you'll need a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat or Evince). The perspective shifts from first to third-person at the start of chapter three. The part structure is entirely incorrect, and no editing of any sort has taken place. Also, the story doesn't really finish.

I would correct these issues, but I'm working on a new story which incorporates some elements of this one into it.

2004

Last year I wrote a story called The Narrowing Gaps In This. It's pretty dreadful — from the title onwards — but if you really want to read it, you can find it on this site.

It was easier to reach 50,000 words for my second year. Probably because I didn't finish the novel hating it and every character in it like I did in 2003.

You can read the novel online here (HTML, all in one big page).

2003

Don't even ask. Don't even think about asking. I won, but nobody will ever see it.