{"id":5864,"date":"2012-11-01T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:00:34","slug":"nano-to-the-wrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"Nano to the Wrimo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year Nanowrimo is an adventure\u2014that is, it\u2019s miserable, uncomfortable, undignified, and I\u2019ll get utterly lost at least once a day. I am comforted by two harsh realities: that I am going to explore new ground, and that the end result will be gloriously awful.<\/p>\n

But, like a good camping trip, if you don\u2019t come out of it with twigs in your hair and half a hillside worth of mud down your pants, you\u2019re not doing it right.<\/p>\n

This year I want to try a paranormal urban fantasy caper. I am inspired by my friend Rachel\u2019s publisher, Carina Press<\/a>. Looking at their back catalog, I realized that this is where fanfic writers go when they grow up. Want to publish a M\/M erotic vampire\/werewolf fantasy\u2014in space? If it\u2019s any good, Carina Press will give it a shot. Just, you know, slap a fresh coat of paint on that Farscape\/Firefly crossover before submitting it [0].<\/p>\n

My challenge is that everything I know about telling caper stories I learned from obsessively listening to the commentary tracks on my Leverage DVDs [1].<\/p>\n

My other challenge is that in my head this book takes place in New York City. A city I have been to exactly once and decided I didn\u2019t like very much [3]. All I know about New York City I learned by reading urban fantasy and watching Castle and Law and Order reruns.<\/p>\n

I could do some research. Or I could just wing it.<\/p>\n

I did mention that the results of Nanowrimo are supposed to be gloriously awful and messy, right? Imagine me as a five-year-old at the crafts table, covered in glue and glitter and tissue paper and bits of yarn, and in the end producing a random bit of scribble that only a mother could love.<\/p>\n

[0] Ooh. Farscape\/Firefly crossover! Aeryn and Zoe would take over the frelling \u2018verse, man!
\n[1] Dear Leverage writers: please send me your research bibliography. For some reason my public library doesn\u2019t have \u201cHow to be a criminal mastermind\u201d as a subject listing in the catalog. [2]
\n[2] Also, I\u2019ve been a very, very good girl all year and I\u2019d like an episode where Eliot and Hardison go undercover as male strippers.
\n[3] I was there three days and had a migraine the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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