NaNo 2005 Plans

A long time ago, possibly even before I first discovered NaNo, I had
an idea to use as the basis of a story. I would take the titles of
every track by an artist, arrange chronologically by album and track
order and use them as chapter headings.

So, looking for ideas for NaNo, I considered this again and duly
typed up a list of all 147 Yes studio tracks (including the ABWH
album, fact fans). I then sat and looked at them and worked on a
story.

As my plans developed, it didn't seem quite right. My idea wasn't
quite fitting into the feel of Yes. Quite by chance, I listened to
Black Sabbath by, umm, Black Sabbath and it struck me that the Sab
were the answer. So I made a list of Black Sabbath tracks and have
started to frantically track down copies of all of the studio albums
that I don't own (just one to find, Cross Purposes).

It does seem a silly idea, but I can see some advantages to it.
First, if I get stuck at a particular point, it is easy for me to go
and write something a bit later on in the tale and not get lost.
Second, to some extent, my route is already planned which should keep
me on track. Third, I have ready made inspiration if I run out of
ideas. Fourth, and perhaps most importantly of all, I have fifty
thousand words split up into chunks of three or four hundred.
Writing four hundred words is easy.

Tomorrow, as I have the post planned already and this will keep me
posting, I will start to outline my actual ideas for the story
itself.

After saying that cricket would stay out of the blog, Somerset won
the Twenty20, yay!