I’ve added a new page here at NCAYBL, A novel in the writing. It contains the germ of an as-yet untitled novel that I’ve been chewing on for a couple of months. I’ve decided to do all the work on this particular fiction right here on the blog. Everything will be on that very page, all the notes, comments, editing, workings-out and dreadful mistakes. It’ll be an interesting experiment to see how it goes.
I’ve also decided to take a somewhat different approach to the way I write this one. Normally I’d spend quite a bit of time structuring a story. I’d know the characters, where they’ve been, who they are, what was going to happen, to whom, and when. Ultimately I’d know how the story ends. This time I’m going to avoid all that and just let the story write itself. The only thing I am seeding the story with is a mental image of the land within which the action occurs and a few ideas about the political landscape. Apart from that, it’s an open book (ha).
