So. NaNo is soon. And by ‘soon’ I mean in about 43 days, which, hey, is a lot less than 365. So anyway, I’m freaking out. I have this pattern where I win every other year. I’ve been doing this since 2010 and I have now won twice (’11 and ‘13) and only got 60% through last year, and that was actually done in a good amount of time and stuff but I just had too much work thrust upon me since it was my first semester of college and I didn’t know how to deal with my schedule and stuff. So this is my year- my third win. And if I don’t get it, I’m a bigger failure than ever before.
But to get my third win, I need to plan like the frigging wind. I have very little, and it’s up to you guys to help me out, alright? I’m going to be posting updates about my plot planning, like usual, and I need you guys to do that thing where you send me questions about it so that I can actually think and stuff. All I’ve decided is this: I’m doing my first horror themed novel. I always go disturbing, I love to go sad, I’ve never done like horror or scary or anything as a main plot point of anything bigger than microfiction. I think I want it to have to do with things laying eggs inside people and infecting them so that they one day erupt into tiny, angry, hungry baby versions of that thing. I keep thinking like gigantic bees/wasps, but nah because a) No.2 b) the last book I read was Grasshopper Jungle so I’m thinking a lot about gigantic praying mantis super soldiers and I don’t want to steal anything from that. I haven’t even begun thinking about characters because I think this is one of those times I need plot before anything else.
So like. Yo. I just thought about pollen. Like super aggressive pollen that violently sticks inside your nasal cavities and lungs and stuff and it starts growing into plants and you have it in you passively for like 2 or 3 days and then it grows until it takes you over and it pushes out your eye balls and chokes you and stuff. But probably not. Because my last NaNo was about plants and also because I feel like there’s less to fear?? Like, there’s intense allergies and stuff but nothing chasing you.
So, honestly, I have no idea what is bursting out of people/what people are transforming into/what’s chasing and killing/infecting the noninfected. And if you have any ideas, please tell me













