Everything starts with an idea, and sometimes that's the toughest part. Fortunately, I've had the basis for an idea gathering dust for nearly four years, now. During the Fall, 2004 semester, I took a creative writing course, and my big, end-of-semester project was a short story that wound up running 7,500 words. It would be cheating to reproduce all that text as part of the novel, but I am recycling the setting.
"A Turn of the Coin"
It's nothing particularly ground-breaking, but it provides an original sci-fi setting, with a broad conflict to utilize. Where this short story looks at the end of a series of conflicts between Io and the rest of the solar system, I think the novel will focus on that military strife and the politics that touched everything off. The twenty-word summary, as posted on the Nanowrimo forums: "The tyranny of the majority plays out across the solar system as incumbent politicians are reelected over objections of laborers."
Presently, I'm brainstorming titles. The two front-runners in that race are Popular Rule and Spheres of Influence. [addendum]Consent of the Governed may be more apt....[/addendum]
More to come as I settle on a title and do some more detailed outlining.
Because for some people, producing a novel in thirty days isn't quite enough, they need to write about the experience too hardly ever update.
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