Oh gaaaawd, am I going to finish my October things before NaNoWriMo starts? This freaking sinus infection has had me down and out for a week and a half now, completely throwing off my plans to paint and have lunch with my grandparents, and the resulting drowsiness (both medication-induced and just plain LAZY) has really slowed my progress on outlining my manuscript and even just posting on here.

Well, I take that last one back, kind of. Here’s the issue I’m having with posting, and it’s not entirely because I’m lazy:

My inspiration for the format of the manuscript is in  the lost art of the epistolary novel, like Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangeruses, which is comprised almost entirely of letters among several parties. I’m going to try and translate that into a manuscript where the exposition comes  in the form of my main characters’ public blog posts and personal emails among themselves, and the action really going down in a traditional narrative format.

Hey, it MIGHT work.

My proposed format means that I will have to write blog posts, but not for my blog. So anytime I get an idea or a theme for a post in my head lately, it seems to shuffle its way from MY point of view to one of the characters I’m outlining. Then I don’t want to write it on here because:

a) that’s kind of cheating, to have any narrative done beforehand, and

b) my personal voice is being hijacked.

So for November, please don’t expect any sort of insightful, brilliant posts on here. I don’t think I’ll have them for my own blog while I’m basically creating three others from scratch. You’ll have to settle for a series of “this-is-what-I-did-today” blurbs, I’m afraid.