WOW. Busy weekend. Very busy. We had college and career on Friday night, then on Saturday, I was doing homework, on Sunday I was at church and still doing homework.
Now it's Monday and... still doing homework. Oy. It doesn't end.
No rants today. Too tired for rants. But I did write this teaser for Tramontane at about 2 in the morning last night... this morning... whatever. It's a bit weird because it's one half of a conversation, so you have to imagine the other half. Again, 2 in the morning.
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Hello, Forrest. How can I help you today?
Rumors?
Sprau Tower does not have an eleventh floor. You can count them outside, see? Only ten floors. And then the radio signal. But that’s not another floor.
Nicola Grabinski? She didn’t disappear in Sprau Tower. People saw her leave. Uh, wh-who? Well… I did. That’s right. And so did several other professors. Trevor Blake, for one.
There is no underground burial ground of murdered students. Stop being so ridiculous.
There was never blood found at the fountains.
There was never blood found at the fountains.
Mr. Shafer.
Look, I can understand that you’re upset. Maybe you should schedule an appointment with Counseling. We have some wonderful people in the Psych department who would love to help you through this time.
You’re going to be a problem, aren’t you?
Yeah. So was Nicola.
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I need to stop writing in the wee hours. Also, yes, this is taking place at WMU. Sprau Tower is very, very real, and very, very terrifying. (Mostly because I'm afraid of heights to an alarming degree.) The people and events are not real, though.
Writing this story in October. I've never tried to write horror before, so it should be fun! :D Meanwhile, working on a short story for Fiction Workshop. Right now it's called "Something Like Love". And as for that nonfiction piece... eh, I'll put it up after it's been through workshop.
So what's everyone out there working on right now? Plotting for NaNoWriMo? That's only 41 days away...
Good luck with GothNoWriMo! My roommate and I were going to do it and work on our collaborative novel, but we decided it was too close to NaNo, so we're doing it in January and calling it CollabNoWriMo, for Collaboration Novel Writing Month. Maybe one year I'll be able to do GothNo and NaNo without burning out >.>
ReplyDeleteWhy can't NaNo hurry up? *pout*
Thanks. :) Super cool idea with CollabNoWriMo! Sounds like it'll be a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteIt's only 40 days away.
GothNoWriMo sounds like fun! I don't think I'm prepared to do something like that this year, but maybe next year when I have more time to do some planning.
ReplyDeleteI've never written Gothic Horror stories before so it might be a new and challenging undertaking for me. :)