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This is my fourth attempt at NaNoWriMo. (nano_jess_y0,nano_jess_2004, nano_jess_2005, if anyone's wondering.) Statistics would suggest that I won't finish this one, either, chance says that the odds have gotta come up good sometime, and this might just be my year. (AND IT WAS!!!! 50,113 was the final count!)

As with my previous NaNo novel journals, the majority of this will be locked to friends-only. There are two types of entries: chapter updates, and entries about the writing process itself. (I love looking at the how of how I do things and put them together. It's fun. I love looking at how other people write, and what's going through their brains, too.) This is so I don't bore my Flist on my regular journal with NaNo ramblings, and so people who I know purely through NaNo aren't subjected to me rambling about things I don't have in common with them.

The chapter entries will be filtered- I don't regard posting them here as putting them out in public space, but sharing with friends for commentary or curiousity reasons. All that said, I'm fairly friendly when it comes to shared circumstances (You're doing NaNoWriMo too? Great! Let's see one another through this hellish time!) so I'm likely to friend you if I know you from NaNo. If you know me from the NaNo forums and wish to see what I'm up to, just drop me a note on a public entry, and I'll let you in. :)


What's the novel about?

Simply, relationships, and circumstance leading to similarities. Suburban alienation. Life not working out the way you thought it would, yet following an alarmingly typical pattern. What happens when the heart and the head try to annihilate one another. Aftermaths.


It's the first time I've tried writing anything semi-autobiographical, and I'm willing to bet that it's likely to be pretty full-on in terms of issues, and it's probably not what I'd suggest as light reading if you're depressed. But... they say "write what you know," and writing what I didn't know never finished me a NaNoWriMo, so I'm taking a different spin on things this year. But no, it's by no means true, accurate, or at all "real." NaNo ain't about writing memoirs, and I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. It's a work of fiction, but I see myself moreso in this than anything else I've written, and unlike all the other times, I can admit it.

That said, it might turn utterly bizarre in my frantic attempts to keep writing. That's the beauty of NaNoWriMo, isn't it?

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LJ Policy/Warning: This novel may contain adult material, and subject matter which may not be good for your mental health if you have depression, drug abuse, or eating disorder issues. Cuts will be posted within the journal, but... I just thought I'd offer a warning here, too.