As it’s only two weeks until the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and today is NaNoPrep Day, I have been thinking about what my novel will be this year. I thought that I would share the process with you – and ask you all to share how you go about generating your ideas.
While tossing around various options for NaNoWriMo I was also idly looking at a spreadsheet that my sister has put together (a very small version of one branch is below). She is seriously into genealogy and has produced a very detailed family tree going back over two thousand years!
I was thinking about the various stories that such a spread of people, times, and places represented. Then I moved on to how these stories could be linked together in some way. In the comments of other Limebird posts I have talked about how I really get into research, and so it shouldn’t surprise you that I spent quite a few hours looking at the lives of some of the people on the family tree. What I wanted to find were events that happened during the 12th year, 13th year etc. of my ancestor’s lives to see if I could hang an overarching narrative on them all.
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