Yep, it’s
October. That means that, unless something goes badly wrong, it will be
November next month, and we all know what that means. National Novel Writing
Month! I will once again be endeavouring to pump out 50,000 words of original
fiction between the 1st and 30th of November, along with
tens of thousands of others around the globe.
This year
sees me return to Edmund Zenith of the Royal Air Fleet, protagonist of 2015’s successful
NaNo attempt ‘Squadron’s Zenith. I posted
before about the fact that I apparently started the series with the second
book, and that I would need to go back and cover Zenith’s lieutenancy, prior to
the promotion that put him in command of the HMA Hippolyta.
This year, I
will be working on what should be (probably) the first book in the series,
Ship’s Zenith. I will confess straightaway that according to the NaNo rules, I
will be cheating slightly. I say this because I have actually already started
work on Ship’s Zenith; although I’ve only produced 7,000 words or so. I will be
producing 50,000 more words, but nonetheless, strictly speaking it’s supposed
to be a completely new novel.
I do wonder
whether I couldn’t start even further back in the timeline, with my main
character as a very young midshipman, and call the book ‘Wardroom’s Zenith’.
However, it’s already been established that Zenith was a Lieutenant on-board
the Pendragon. If I do go further
back and write Wardroom’s Zenith, it will have to be a totally new story again.
Currently, I have no ideas for it, but we’ll see.
For now,
here’s the blurb for Ship’s Zenith as it currently appears on the NaNoWriMo
website:
“It’s 1876,
and Edmund Zenith, a young lieutenant in the Royal Air Fleet, is posted to the Pendragon,
a magnificent airship of the line. However, between a tyrannical captain,
pirates, irritable Frenchmen, deserts, sandstorms and a nosy newspaperman, what
should be a dream posting may prove far more than the inexperienced young
officer can handle!”
That’s the
plan at least. I’ll let you know how I get on.
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