I’ll admit that I used a time machine to send this post to actually be at the end of November because I didn’t want to see a month-long gap in posts on my blog. I’ll also admit that I did absolutely zero work on my conlang, which is why this is not a greyfolk language report—it’s a writing report.
For the entire month of November, I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and I won by writing 50,000 words of a shitty first draft in just 30 days! I had just started prepping only a few days before November, but I knew that it was something I really wanted to give effort and time. For a while now, I’ve had some ideas about a post-apocalyptic story in my head—but something that was (kind of) different from my greyfolk stories.
It was heavily inspired by Eidetic Memory: The Mercy Dolls by David L. Pulver in Pyramid #3/90: After the End with The Redeemers by Jason “PK” Levine in Pyramid #3/88: The End Is Nigh, and I don’t think that I could give either of them enough credit. It mostly follows a boy named Noa in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus wiped out most of humanity and mutated many of its survivors. Eventually, Noa leaves his home—a village called Digsby—to travel the barrens in search of a new life for himself where he encounters a ragtag crew that saves Noa’s life. Something, something, mutation holds a deep secret. I’m not great at figuring out what the tagline is, especially because I think the draft could be twice as long if not more before it’s finished.
You can read what I wrote here: Yandt Greyson NaNoWriMo 2019 Project.
That stressful month of writing is over, so, now, I plan to move forward with that draft at a more accommodating pace while I return to working on my conlang. It was nice to take a break from it—I feel refreshed.