I registered for Nano this year.
I’m crazy.
This time of year at my job is called “Welcome Season” – internally, we call it “Open Season”. This is the time of year where all the insurance companies decide to make their changes for the first of the next year, such as new deductibles, new drugs covered and not covered, etc.
Well, our corporation has been doing so well (yeah, show me the money) that we have over 60 new customers. These 60 customers have an average of 3 new programs. Some more, some less. I’ve done one so far. It’s a horror show, because, simply put, the insurance companies keep changing their minds. And the sales people are bending over backwards for the insurance companies, not for the corporation – which means we have to go nuts and make things happen in minutes that normally take days.
I digress.
Suffice it to say, I’m busy that month. This is the worst month to do this in. And why am I doing it?
I want to write more. I want to try something different, but for this and its time constraint I need to stick with something that I know and am familiar with, that I won’t find myself wasting time with research. Something that I can pretty much pull out of my ass without explaining or justifying. Words. Just words.
I need to assess what I do know, and what I’d like to write. Magic is my usual fall-back. I registered my novel as “The Wizard of Providence” because I’m familiar with magic and my home state. Maybe mutants? Maybe fighter-priests? Maybe AD&D?
I have a month to ponder.