NaNo and OYAN--combined

It's been way too long since I updated this blog!  That is with good reason.  Truth be told I haven't gotten much done on OYAN since I wrote my last post.  November was NaNo; which kept me more than busy.  It turned out to be a much more eventful NaNo than I'd expected, but it was fun.

And OYAN once again came into play!  It was awesome.  I wrote three adventure novels during November (although only one was planned) and I used OYAN strategies and thoughts in all of them.  The one that I used OYAN on most was not the one that I saved using OYAN...but instead another novel that I wrote completely off the top of my head.

It was a fantasy/adventure novel that is practically one long treasure hunt.  I intend to edit it and have it self-published through CreateSpace by Christmas—but that's another story.

It was the sort of novel that you write during OYAN.  And there were so many times I kept on thinking in OYAN-speak during that novel.  ;)  Probably the most memorable time is when the characters are about to venture to cross a swamp.  Everyone keeps on telling them they can't go into it...it's horrid...no one has ever survived, ect.

Then, when I got them into the swamp I realized that with all that stuff previously I'd made a dreadful promise!  Now there was only one thing to do!  I'd made a dreadful promise and now I needed to fulfill the dreadful purpose.  But how...

So I had to invent some really dreadful stuff.  And really, really dreadful stuff, because it had been a VERY dreadful promise, and so to make the 'bad thing around the corner' worse than what I'd promised would come...

It was a challenge.

The whole novel was like that, practically.  OYAN came into play A LOT.

OYAN rocks.  :)