Last week I awakened my sleeping blog with news of my intention to participate in NaNoWriMo 2013.
Well it's day six and my total word count is 17,113. For those of you unenlightened with NaNo, it's where writers take up the challenge to write 50k words in one month, so by now I should be at 10k at least. So progress is good. I'm aiming for at least 3500 words per day, excluding Sundays, because I believe everyone needs a day off, including my characters. And as I'm hoping to achieve 50k by around day 15, I'm planning another 50k on my Penny and George series. So a kind of double NaNo.
The Moon Goddess Fantasy was first inspired by a Monday Muse I did over at my writers group, Writers Abroad. Each week we take it in turns to post creative writing prompts (on a Monday) and then we are tasked to write for 15 mins freestyle or 500 words. Xanthe, the heroine of this story appeared in this muse.
My second inspiration was seeing huge moon, known as Wolf Moon, the original title of the story. A Wolf Moon occurs in January and because it is closer to the earth than normal, looks as if it is much larger. As though you could walk right through it.
Finally, I came across the symbol of the Moon Goddess, one full moon and two crescent which represent, apparently, the three main stages of womanhood; the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone.
The Moon Goddess fantasy is a pleasure to write, I've created a world that no-on can challenge (because it's of my making) and characters that have animal forms such as a wolf, a white peacock and even trolls! This is a story that began a long time ago, so by the end of November I should have in excess of 80k words, though then the hard work begins, and the real writing must begin...
Next time I'll tell you about Penny and George...
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