Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, decisions
So, the start of this year's Nanowrimo http://www.nanowrimo.org/
is a couple months away, and I'm still facing a bit of a quandry as to
what to write. But at least the creative spark is there. It could be
because the RP's starting to run dry. The ST of Sodium Noir's going quiet, the Blackrose game got derailed by illness and relocation, and while there's the game of last resort (Dark Shadows), it's just not that fun when the few players that stay on late aren't really very good rpers. Worse yet, the LARP I'm in is coming to an end. One bright note, I may have more players for my OWN Tabletop game.

So a few of the things I'm kicking around for my entry this year:

1) Bringing back the title character of Cards of Change (though where to
take it, I'm not sure)

2) Rework an old story of mine about my oldest character, Vampire character, a Tremere. This is legal, I'm told, and I could revamp it with shifting viewpoints. this time writing it from third person, or a shifting viewpoint (third and first) I can see that working, actually. Then I'd just need a title...

3) Stay in the World of Darkness genre and write up a background for my 2nd oldest Mage character. A dark tale involving death, love and magick and vampires. Problem there is where to really begin. Her backstoryhas always been rather vague. Should I start when she leaves home, or whenshe gets to San Fran? That's what makes it a challenge, I guess.

4) Shift away from it entirely and go in a different direction. Like "Love, War and Fast Food". It would be a tale of two people working for opposing fast food chains, set in the future so that it really could have a tragic turn. So, I've got time to decide.

4a) Get off the Vampire tangent and instead go for something...different.
Like a series of vignettes about my commute. (Thank god I carpool)
That's too depressing.

4b)Or maybe "Love, War and Fast Food." A Romeo and Juliet like tale of two fast food workers (with a sci-fi sort of twist so that it really could be a tragic tale.) Hmm...it's not without possibility either.

5) The one my husband suggested to me last year on one of our many road trips. A tale of a trucker that works transporting the undead across the country and the perils it can bring. I think I have the first part, but it's getting the rest...

In any case, we bought a laptop this year, so I plan to use it. Maybe I'll even attend a couple of meetings, because I can now type the work directly instead of writing them once and typing later. Should also come in real handy during Turkey time, when I had to write stuff by hand and transcribe it when I got home, causing me a lot of extra work that I could have spent writing.

Now, since I won last year, I could certainly consider the additional
challenge of adding another 10,000 words to the goal, or meeting halfway
and going 5,000. Well, I've got a couple months to decide...