God's Muse is the current code name for my NaNoWriMo project (Thursday is the 1st already!).
For those who don't know, NaNoWriMo is "National Novel Writing Month" and it's sort of an online support group of writers and wannabes with the common goal of reaching a 50,000 word goal in the month of November. I think my sister introduced me to it several years ago, but it was a bit overwhelming. Now I'm ready to take it on. I've got a good idea what I'm going to write. It's far from a complete outline, though I do know how it will end and h several scenes mapped out.
A race of beings who worship creativity as a god have come to Earth and started a record label with a plan to harvest creativity (a force no longer present in their race) - from human blood. It's up to Jazz Lee to figure out why the members of his band have started to disappear and how to stop the extinction of his race as the rest of these beings are just days away from Earth.
If it sounds familiar, I was working on it for Camp NaNoWriMo in August. A tragedy involving a violent death hit my wife's family at this time, and the scene I was working on at the time involved a scene dealing with a similar incident. I just couldn't pretend about it when the real thing was there staring me in the face. Actually, it was kind of a driving force behind my creating this blog for reasons I won't go into here. At any rate, I didn't want to trash the idea, but I really didn't like that scene - and not just because of the subject, it just didn't work, the characters weren't real and it seemed forced. So I scratched it, started over with a fresh brainstorm and while a few characters have survied it's a whole new idea, with a new plot and approach.
Thank you for your eyeballs!
DJ
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