Agent: Nate! Baby! I got one word for you! One word!
Nate: Yeah?
Agent: Vampires!
Nate: Vampires?
Agent: Vampires!
Nate: So fiction about vampires?
Agent: It's going to be huge, baby! Huge!
Nate: Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking about blogging. Maybe blogging about my cat.
Agent: Nate, baby - blogging is great! It's the future, baby! And everybody loves your cat! But vampires! It's going to be huge! Harry Potter huge!
Nate: I don't know. Vampires . . . I'll think about it.
Needless to say I did not think about it. And now every single middle-aged housewife in America has made a small fortune off of vampire fiction while my cat blogs go largely unnoticed.
Well all that is about to change since I think I'm going to attempt NaNoWriMo again. As many of you may recall [Editor's Note: Many?] I defeated NaNoWriMo in 2006.
I've had an idea for an Urban Fantasy book for awhile now and figure that the only way I'll ever actually write any of it is if I force myself to attempt NaNoWriMo again. I doubt I'll hit the fifty-thousand words, but it's a start. And a quick warning to anyone who's attempting NaNoWriMo - I've had this conversation more than a few times:
Nate: So it's called NaNoWriMo. You have to write fifty-thousands words in a month.
Person: Fifty-thousand words? That doesn't sound too hard.
Nate: No, it's pretty hard.
Person: But that's only, what, fifteen-hundred words a day?
Stop. Right there. Fifteen-hundred words might not sound like a lot, but I would wager that most people wouldn't be able to sit down and type "the" fifteen-hundreds times a day for thirty days, let alone actually create something semi-coherent. And remember that's fifteen-hundred words every day. For a month. Skip one day and you're looking at three-thousand the next and so on.
Okay. Now that we got that cleared up, I'm off to use the internet to figure out what exactly a vampire is. It's some sort of lizard-thing, right? Like this?
Right?
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