cornerofmadness

Since i'm still rampagingly busy this isn't going to be all that long or even coherent. I am getting literally nowhere with camp nano other than to use it to help complete my short story, the demon hunter holiday thing. I'm not getting much if anything done on Riding with Strangers but that is more of a lack of time thing. I just finished finals. I have to get more lectures finished in the next two weeks and then class starts again. Seriously may/june would have been better camp days for me. Then again I don't care if I win this. It's obvious that even nano isn't taking this TOO seriously (or at least cheaped out and didn't bother with forums)

I did make progress and finally recovered all I lost but it took three days and a lot of whining. Now to get my ass moving to get this done. Somehow TEMPLE of all people is going to solve both mysteries. I'm not sure how that happened. It still has NO holiday theme so if you're looking at this on the original fiction filter thoughts would be welcome.

You know what I want to see in a dystopia? FEMALES taking over. In almost every dystopia I've ever seen, the females get slammed back into the middle ages, kept only for breeding purposes and this has always bugged me. I would like to see (especially since there are so many women in power these days) women saying, okay we have the power and since we're the ones bringing forth the future generations WE have a say in what happens.

Has this been written? I think there was one like this. Then I realized that I had written it myself back in 1988. I was young then and it was not entirely realistic in the end. They weren't quite human. They were induced ovulations (i.e. sex= egg release) that could store sperm and the males were killed after copulation. This began several hundred years before and records were lost showing that the males were actually the caretakers of the kids. It was told from the pov of a young male on the run who finds the ancient records and brings them to light (probably not that realistic in that they didn't just kill his ass afterwards but eh, I wasn't quite 21 when I wrote it and it no longer exists that I'm aware of being written in the days of those big floppies)

I'm not sure that I would ever go back and try to rewrite something like i t. I'm not a huge fan of dystopias but as I've said before they're apparently all the rage in YA fiction.

yearly word count -

54517 / 125000 words. 44% done!

camp nano -

8999 / 50000 words. 18% done! (yep I'm behind)



demon hunter holiday

8737 / 15000 words. 58% done!