A Dandelion For The Sky

Writing season rolls around again
Yes, I know that writing doesn't really have a season - but if it did, now would be it. NaNo approacheth, and all that.

NaNo is this vague, shapeless and kind of scary thing for me this year - I'll be in college, it's my sixth year, I have no workable novel-length plots, I'm incredibly busy, etc., etc.

So I've decided I'm going to write short stories. Mainly steampunk-verse shorts, but it'll be all over the place, setting-wise. It'll be healthy exercise for me, too, because I rarely write short stories, and rarely have ideas that aren't expanded to something novel-length. But this year I'm going to do it - I get to play around with characters, get a feel for them and play with the setting before I commit myself to anything longer.

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Current Mood: excited
Current Music: "Stockholms Pärlor" - Ebba Grön