Anyone else doing Nanowrimo?

[elingregory]

More in hope than conviction, because madam STILL hasn't shifted her trash out of my work room, I've signed up and got my new Nanowrimo page ready.

This year I'm doing 7th century Romano-Brits battling the Saxons down through Yorkshire - sort of like "300" only without the little leather posing pouches. Obviously this takes some background reading so I'm ploughing through all the different translations of the Gododdin, the source material. Some of it reads like it's been put through Babelfish:

Thou slayest them with blades, without much noise:
Thou, powerful pillar of living right, causest stillness.

But I have to admit that I really like the line:

The son of Bodgad, by the energy of his hand, caused a throbbing.

Of what, it doesn't say but the poem continues "Though they went to church to do penance / The old, the young, and the bold handed, / The inevitable strife of death was to pierce them" so this may be one of the first instances of the old "if you do that you'll go blind, grow hair on your palms and die" canard.

Hmm - now I've thought of that I may have to write it. When I get desperate, about Day 25.

Comments

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

I only came across this post today, but, yes, perhaps I am doing NaNoWriMo (but cheating, as always, to finish an already existing story, the one with the baby griffins). Your idea sounds great!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I hope it might be. I'm nt nearly as organised this year as I was last, but OTOH the plot is already there for me. I just have to fit the incidents into it.

Baby griffins!! Awwwww.