shh … i’m not here

After another fruitless hour trying to allow a YouTube video to load and only getting around two minutes and ten seconds of nine and a half minutes, I’ve given up. And I hopped over here because listening to an hour of Within Temptation really gave me inspiration for the novel that I am working on at the moment and I’ve decided to post a little about the plot/characters and the origin of the idea. And it’s taken a lot of overcoming the large paranoia I have about people stealing my work. Even fanfiction is beginning to become popular targets for plagerism on the internet — imagine what that means for original fiction that is posted! /paranoia

*cough* But I’ve managed to put that behind me. Hopefully I won’t chicken out and delete this post later. Also, I am sorry if this is far too vague for your liking, but . . . this is all you’ll get! =P

The idea first appeared when we were covering a mental health chapter in health class, specifically on  mental disorders such as schizophrenia and when I listened to Evanescence’s song “Lacrymosa” (please do not click the link if you are either not interested in hearing the song or are not in a position to listen to music, especially load music) and was interested in what the name of the song meant. It turns out that it’s a star near the Dog Star “Sirius”, I believe, though I failed to note the site which I found this information from and cannot recover it. Never fear, though, I’m trying to get my hands on it again. If only I could filter the bands and songs out of the search results . . .

Anyway, and then the perfect name for the main character popped up in Seventh Sanctum’s (Breeding plot bunnies since 1997) Angel/Demon name generator and voila! The plot, title, character and everything was in place. All that was left was . . . NaNoWriMo 2007.

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is when people from all over the world take the month of November to do all of the following: loose sleep, drink far too many cups of coffee, and write 50,000 words in thirty days. Essentially, write a novel in a month. I attempted the feat with my little idea for my debut novel (aka the only one in a line of many that I feel can even be considered for an attempt at publishing) and didn’t get to 50,000 words, but didn’t fail miserably either. I was planning to go through with NaNoPubYe (National Novel Publishing Year) if I finished, but alas, I had other obligations and didn’t reach the 50k target.

However, I have decided to rewrite the entire amount that I have already written. Don’t ask why, because I don’t even know — I just think that it’s the right thing to do at the moment. But a vague outline is called for, I believe: the main character has recurring dreams which cause her to believe that she is the star Lacrymosa and has to go “home” to the star. She slowly becomes more and more schizophrenic.

Okay, it sounds weird when you put it like that. >.>

Okay, well, I’m off to go and fight the urge to write NuWho (BBC Doctor Who 2005) fanfiction and get to work!

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