Ark of the Lost Angels

I’m posting today to let you know that November’s posts will look dramatically different. There will be no articles written, it will all focus on creative writing. In fact, it will all revolve a story project which I have been working on for several years.

November is National Novel Writing Month. Known as NaNoWriMo for short, the challenge is to draft an entire novel in 30 days.

For November and November only, I will be posting on Tuesdays and Fridays. This is quite a different beast than most of what I write on here. My goal is NaNoWriMo’s target of 50,000 words. Averaged out, each section I plan to put up should clock in at a word count of 6,250.

I will try to follow the spirit of the rules, but the NaNoWriMo organization recently partnered with an AI organization and spoke in favor of using AI to write, and as someone who went to school, paid a lot of money, and dealt with sharpening my skills to the point where I feel comfortable putting something like this out into the world as a first draft. Therefore, I will not be registering with the organization due to my own feelings about the place of AI in writing.

Onto this project. This story follows an aspiring musician stuck in his small New England coastal town outside Boston, too restless to want to stay but too tied down by ghosts to leave. The past comes back to haunt as his childhood best friend moves back after five years living on the other side of the country, and he tries to find out where his mother disappeared to so that she can be at her daughter’s wedding.

The title of this project is called October Sun, November Seas.