Camp NaNoWriMo Week 1 – Of Writing, Magic, and Colds

And, just like that, we have reached the end of the first week of Camp NaNoWriMo. At the moment I am on 3 000 words on a 25K word count goal – which is a lot less than I had planned on, but a head cold went and spoiled the whole weekend and what I thought was going to be three days on nearly non-stop writing. Joy.

Still, it is 3 000 words more than I had last week this time!

Adding a dash of magic

For those who missed the previous posts, or who just found this blog (welcome in that case, by the way), I am busy writing part of The Box of Secrets for Camp NaNo this month and am busy with part three at the moment. But something quite momentous did happen this week: I figured out the part of the magic system that has perplexed me for months.

I will post a full post on the magic system next week on Patreon, but can at the moment say that I split the magic (or Nith as it is called in Airtha-Eyrassa) into four branches. And now it works! So to speak…

(If you are new to The Ruon Chronicles, you can check out this post.)

Adding a dash of history… and social anxiety

Another reason why the writing has been going slowly is because I am having to explain quite a lot about the world without info-dumping or boring the poor reader to death.

Then there is a character with quite severe social anxiety (no, she is not shy, she has social anxiety. Sorry, I just had to make that very clear — while doing research I came across so many articles that act as if social anxiety equals being shy.). And it is quite difficult to portray that when it is a character that the reader is just meeting! The last thing I want is for the reader to think that she is just shy or (even worse) weak.

A look at the future

Now that my cold is better I hope that I will be able to finish the various blog posts I have promised in order to post them next week. Yay!

3 Comments on “Camp NaNoWriMo Week 1 – Of Writing, Magic, and Colds”

1. Love the magic gif! Ooh, does the various blog posts include the rest of your folklore posts? (I saw that there are missing letters to finish the alphabet…)

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   • It does include the other folklore posts 😀

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     • Yay!

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