NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo.

November I’ve learned is National Novel Writing Month. This is not important. Disaster is important. Disaster is Erik Benson’s novel that he’s writing this month to celebrate NaNoWriMo. Satistically Erik is doing a great job. Having only written 9 days so far he has written 22,722 words. Well on he way to complete it at 50,000 by the end of the month. He has even created a scary Excel file™ (Direct link to .xls file) to track and chart his progress.

The story itself is takes place in an alternate current day. Where there is one global language shared by both machines and humans. The protagonist is one Larry Ludwig, a obsessive compulsive fellow who lives his life based on data and rules but controlled by chance far more than he’d like.

A bit of a sample:

Larry, therefore, was only passionate about topics to the point that they deserved to be recipients of his passion, and no more. Sometimes this made him feel that he was a cold character. This, however, made the most sense in his opinion-it was a philosophy that could be applied to many situations and be trusted to lead to the correct results. Pragmatism thrived as a rule in his systems. Passion did not. Passion got people killed. Passion was what had led his step father, Barry, to play Russian Roulette with his biological father in order to win Larry’s mother’s heart. Larry was not Barry’s son, he was Gary’s. Gary too had been a practical man, and had opted to allow Barry’s passion to display itself in all of its glorious and gory splendor-Gary let Barry go first.

A very good read.

Xian 05:12 AM, 11.12.03 - p-link