That time of year where the authors of The XD Project take up their authors keyboards and battle toward a 50K mark is approaching yet again.  There are 3 months left until we start our … no, I’m not going to say that.  “Creative juices” always sounds kind of like a toddler eating paint to me.  Rather, I prefer to express it as “write our flamin’ giblets out”. 

Last years novel was an absolutely epic success, the only thing I failed to insert which I will remedy this year is “Wizards on motorcycles”.  I’m caught between two ideas this year though, one is to have my massively over-powered main character fight in the brewing war, and the other is to fulfil another life-long ambition.  You see, two years ago at a bookfest I picked up a book I thought looked interesting – it was called “Warlock”.  I thought “Hmmm, two inches thick, someone wanted to really write an epic about a warlock” then I turned it over and read the back.  What nonsense and drivel is this?  The warlock wanted to save the world?

My second idea is to write about my main character AND a warlock from the opposition, both tasked by their gods toward the destruction of each other.  Just what everyone wants, a massive cataclysm between overpowered opponents.  This gon’ be a good book, y’all, y’all gonna wanna read this book. K, thanks, bye.

I’ve also been thinking – normally while I write Nano it’s a bit, well, if you think Pride and Prejudice is an action movie then I guess you could call my Nano’s exciting but for the rest of the world – it’s more like watching golf.  To alleviate said tedium I think this year I’ll pick a bunch of places to write and then drive there and write my novel in that setting. 

Sudden thought – since the other XD Project authors fail at writing I should force them to collectively write a 50K story on this website during November and threaten to remove administrator access upon failure – as we all know, disincentive is far better motivation than reward.  I seem to remember when this site started we wrote a few posts about a story Dan and I were planning to write with collaborative input from the other editors.  I wonder what happened to that…too much planning, not enough action I think.  I can’t really remember the plot now either, something about a ranger, a trainee ranger, something else and maybe a volcano.  Ah yes, I drew a map which subsequently had the question asked about it “Did someone sit a toddler down and photocopy the result?”  Upon that fantastic evaluation of my abilities I bought proper map-rendering software last year for my epic novel and I think it turned out much better.

I think all I’m trying to say is I should probably write a plot soon.