New month, new project

Okay, so the NaNoWriMo thing didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped. Still, 10,500 words isn't bad, considering I've never written more than about 3,000 until now. If you include term papers, my highest word count is 6,500. The end result of all that work is that I started and restarted the same story four times from four different POVs. It would have been a good start if I'd been more confident about which direction the thing was going to begin with.

Oh well. Time to move on. The effort wasn't wasted, though. I have several good characters developed with some good back-story. Lately I've been spending time on milieu development, since that's what was seriously lacking.

The new project is an urban fantasy, kind of Harry Potter meets Neuromancer with a little Philip K. Dick thrown in. A psychodrama of self-discovery in a world of magic, technology and repression. The MC is a gifted artist and witch with a tortured past that she's suppressed so deeply she doesn't have the slightest clue she has any magical powers or memory of what happened 17 years ago during a war between mages and mundanes.

Oh, and her body is covered with tattoos that have been magically "erased", but begin to appear throughout the course of the plot. This in a world where being strange or unusual is a stigma.

My goal is to write about 2500 to 5,000 words per week, with no upper limit. Should be fun.