Why am I doing this

Today's update will shift away from DuskHaven briefly to talk about why I'm doing this. For the last few years I've had story ideas floating about in my head and I'd write a couple pages all excited. Then I'd read them back and go "Yuck, that sucks,” and crumple them up and toss them. Then in 2006 I heard about NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month is a non-profit organization with the goal of everyone writing a 50,000 word Novel during the month of November. I thought what the heck what have I got to lose. By forcing you to write quickly you won't be writing the next great novel but you will be forced to keep writing. I had no expectation of cranking out 50,000 words as that's 1,667 words a day. But to my surprise I loved it, I was not writing every day but when I did write I was writing with passion.

To my utter surprise I crossed November 30th with just over 50,000 words done and a sense of massive accomplishment. Then I reread my story. It wasn't great but there were scenes that I really liked. I took much of 2007 off and debated what to do that November and in the end I decided to expand one of the scenes that I really liked and try to make a full length novel out of it. The Flight of the Amadeus was much better written (IMHO) then the story that preceded it. While I didn't get 50,000 words I did get 31,000 much more coherent words. I then joined a group called NaNoWriYe or National Novel Writing Year. A much smaller group these were people that want to write year round. Unfortunately their current website is pretty unstable but they are a great group of people. During the first two months of 2008 I have continued my sci-fi novel with some success. But in March I needed a change and so I started DuskHaven. I have enjoyed every minute of writing it and I want to share it. I will be posting the first short story set in the world later this month and I hope you all enjoy it. My year long plan is to continue to work on my science fiction but take breaks every couple months for another DuskHaven short. I plan to do my November NaNo in the DuskHaven world and these shorts plus all the character and place descriptions that are going up here will help tremendously. I hope you all enjoy it as well.