Getting Ready for 2007

This is exciting. I have managed to 'win' NaNoWriMo for two years in a row. It starts again in a few days. I think I can do it again and this time I am even more excited by the possibilities of the story.

Then again, anything can happen. Last year's story changed several time before I finished the month. Then it kept changing drastically as a tried to edit/finish it over the last year (it still isn't done). I've been making notes on the new story and it also won't quite sit still. But I think that's good. Maybe I'll be able to get rid of a bunch of ideas that won't work before I get started on the real thing.

The story I think I'm going to write is based on the germ of an idea I got shortly after my first NaNo back in 2005. I even started to write it in 2006. But I only got as far as about chapter three. Thank goodness, because that makes it easier to throw it all away and start from scratch. I am keeping the basic concept and approach, but I will start the story in a different place and plot it somewhat differently (and hopefully tell it better), which should all qualify it as a new novel for the purposes of NaNoWriMo.

Onward with outlining.