Strange Reconnoiterings

Yes, still going strong.






Very, very happy with this story. 

Nearly done reading Aleph.  I will have to read more of Coelho's works.

And on a sad note - RIP Anne McCaffery.  I very much enjoyed reading your Dragonriders books.  Your contribution to sci-fi and fantasy will not be forgotten.

Only just over three days remain for National Novel Writer's Month 2008. And my count:

43,890 / 50,000 (87.8%)

I am actually aiming to finish tomorrow.

The count:

33,034 / 50,000 (66.1%)

Six days to get to 50,000.

Still going.

27,843 / 50,000 (55.7%)

Progress.  Good.  Sleep now.

Progress.

23,622 / 50,000 (47.2%)

Not as far as I should like to be, but acceptable none-the-less.  Fallen a bit behind, should be at better than 25k, I know.  I still believe I will succeed again this year.

The story twists some, but I think I know where I am going now.  Hey, a conclusion on the horizon!  Now I know what I am shooting for.

Gonna miss LJ during the day tomorrow.  It IS addictive.  :-)

For those playing along at home:

14,464 / 50,000 (28.9%)

I am moving right along on this.

Ok, for those who asked:

Shades of Mediocrity takes place ten years in the future.  Nine states of the Northeast have seceded from the Union, and become the Northeastern American States.  Recognized by nations across the world, but certainly not by the US President, a man named Halpern, representative of the Fundamentalist party (a result of the 2010 split of the Republicans, forming the Conservative and Fundamentalist parties in the process), we meet Marcus Noble, an average citizen living in the new nation.  As the story opens, we learn that California, Oregon and Washington will be voting to secede as well, becoming the Pacific Coast Coalition.  Marcus witnesses a man get gunned down on the Delaware River, and winds up with a briefcase - a briefcase with all kinds of plans from the US Government.

Marcus soon learns that he has not come by this briefcase by chance - he is, in fact, a sleeper agent of the Northeaster Security Bureau, the NAS's equivalent of both the CIA and FBI.  No longer the simple administrative assistant he believed he was, Marcus has to unlock the clues that will reveal President Halpern's reaction to the probable secession of the Pacific coast states, and he has to find a way to stop him from committing atrocities that will rip the already divided continent apart beyond everyone's worst fears.

At least, that's where I think I'm going with this.

More to follow as I write it!

Ok, where DID the time go?  Less than 10 days to the start of National Novel Writer's Month 2008!  

A few weeks ago, I posted here asking for ideas.  While some were...to be fair, more different than I wanted to go, one in particular stuck out - weezeld  suggested doing a spy-thriller techno-thriller story.  I've done some of that sort of writing before, but not in a long time now.  It might be a fun departure from my usual SF&F (and though he also suggested Horror, that, too, is a bit further outside my genre than I want to go).

Ok, so the genre is there - technology-spy thriller.  I have a couple thoughts, but, for some reason, nothing is grabbing me.  SO - LJ land, friends...plot/character/story-arc ideas solicited here!

I will credit any/all assistance.  Thank you!

Infamy Ascending continues:

42,633 / 50,000 (85.3%)

 
7367 words to go.  If I can keep my muse, I can finish this in time!

You can read the first 10 or so pages here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/87156

Pausing now for lunch, then I gotta go to work. 

Can't complain.  I should post a clip from my story to the site at some point.