I shall. I intend, depending on quality, to even try and get it published ;)

((Why not? All they can say is 'No' :P ))

Go for it all, Irtar. Who knows? Maybe you'll write the next big hit.

I've been planning to write a novel for a while now. Actually more like a book. Here's what I've got going for it:

Rising Sun: The Imperial Japanese Navy:

Part I: Introduction to the Japanese Empire
Part II: Sino-Japanese War: From a Naval Standpoint
Part III: Russo-Japanese War: From a Naval Standpoint
Part IV: WW1: From a Naval Standpoint
Part V: WW2: From a Naval Standpoint
Part VI: Infamous commanders of the IJN
Part VII: Evolution of warships within the IJN
Part VIII: The future

Definitely more Book than Novel.

definitely more boring than novel.

More machine than man.

more human than a human.

Rah, it hath begun! (this is Chau, btw)

I have a feeling that this is going to be a very...interesting month. So lets go out into the big, wide world of amatuer novel writing and show 'em all how TRF does business! (That is, slowly and with many procrastinatory games of Starcraft). I reckon that between us we could all at least reach the 50,000 word mark, even if its all for separate novels.


Two community-type ideas:

1) Fairly obvious, but...we could all post our author page links here so that we can keep track of each other. Example:

Linky: http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=88493

There also seems to be a 'friendlist' option that we can play around with. Should be fun.


2) I was browsing the NaNo forums the other day and noticed that there are a number of "dare" topics. Basically the idea is that you dare people to include certain things in their novel. Taking example from the sci-fi forums...

Anyway, dares ala Star Trek . . .

Have someone in a red shirt be killed.
--Double points if someone points out the red-shirt-curse beforehand.
--Triple if the red-shirt-wearing-person points out that is from a TV show and couldn't possibly be real. Just before they die.

So I was thinking we could have some TRF-specific dares. Like to see how many Matt Good references you can fit into the dialogue, or to have an evil dictator scream "Kneel before Zod!" or a character named Dolash and the like. Just little things to add some flavour for fun, y'know.



Anyway, just a thought. I'm off to write some shit. They don't have a 'speculative fiction' option in the genre selection screen which kinda pisses me off, but oh well. Current wordcount: 400! Only 49,600 more words to go! Yeah!

It would be interesting to do, even fun, but unfortunately I don't have enough time. For a challenge:

Challenge:
1 Point for: Making it Star Wars related yet having nothing to do with TRF
2 Points for: Make evil triumph over good
3 Points for: Not leaving the possibility for sequels with the same characters
4 Points for: Making evil triump over good, not leaving the possibility for sequels with the same character and yet make the universe, galaxy, world, country (whatever) better off than it was before (yet evil still has to triumph).

With all the RPs and fanfiction on my plate already I need to work on I can't join in...otherwise I may consider it.