NaNoWriMo : WIP Introduction
Hi everyone!
Even though I’ve been doing it for a few years now, I never really shared my NaNoWriMo experience on Tumblr and I feel like maybe I’ve been missing out. I won the last two editions, so I decided to challenge myself by trying to finish it in five days. Yup, I’m gonna die.
My wip for Nanowrimo is called eletheros. It is about a guy called Ionas who failed his first college year, was fired from his job and decided to go on a road trip to see his best friend who left him and almost ghosted him after high school. He’s going with his crush – Marie-Ann, a rich blonde girl who cares too much about him - his other best friend – Lisenn, a chaotic lesbian punk who jokes too much- and an American girl, Melodie, who spends the year in France.
The story deals with denial, forgiving yourself, abandonment, bisexuality, the fear of feelings, proving your worth, letting go of bad patterns.
I wrote a little less than a half of it back in April and I’ve been working on these characters for a few years now. I’m hoping to finish it in November.
I’m not outlining that much because I found myself unable to be satisfied with any outline and even less able to stick to it. That’s why I decided to go into full pantser mode on this one. I’m usually a plantser and I kind of know what is going to happen precisely in most of my stories, but for eletheros I just can’t, it’s not working. Like the characters, I have to improvise a lot.
