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zengeneral(Cross-posted to
nanowrimo, kindasorta.)Yep. I made it.
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The Procrastinator of the Way will show you how it's done! For the wages of procrastination is deeath:
Day 1: 191 191 - 30 minutesDay 2: 150 341 - 60 minutesDay 3: 58 399 - 15 minutesDay 4: 0 0 - 0 minutesDay 5: 432 831 - 60 minutesDay 6: 249 1180 - 30 minutesDay 7: 0 1180 - 0 minutesDay 8: 2000 3180 - 150 minutesDay 9: 1409 4589 - 100 minutesDay 10: 150 4739 - 15 minutesDay 11: 0 4739 - 0 minutesDay 12: 0 4739 - 0 minutesDay 13: 359 5098 - 15 minutesDay 14: 0 5098 - 0 minutesDay 15: 0 5098 - 0 minutesDay 16: 55 5149 - 15 minutesDay 17: 0 5149 - 0 minutesDay 18: 258 5407 - 65 minutesDay 19: 1351 6758 - 210 minutes [120, 75 soundtrack, 90 Imperial chambers]Day 20: 304 7062 - 60 minutesDay 21: 373 7435 - 155 minutes [45, 110 timeline]Day 22: 1260 8695 - 175 minutes [115, 60 houses/colors]Day 23: 65 8750 - 15 minutes [90 time-skipper's story]Day 24: 0 8750 - 0 minutesDay 25: 201 8952 - 75 minutes [15, 180 tanelos journal, 60 discussions, 60 planning]Day 26: 1914 10866 - 240 minutes [120, 120 tanelos journal, 60 discussions, 120 planning]Day 27: 6207 17073 - 635 minutes [590, 30 discussions, 45 planning]Day 28: 11528 28601 - 795 minutes [130+280+295+90]Day 29: 11089 39690 - 680 minutes [120+360+200, 45 discussions]Day 30: 10508 50198 - 585 minutes [100+245+240]
:BLINK: The time-skipper? Why the frell did I write the timeline for his story?
(He's a character from a planned sequel who isn't even in this book, though an important person in his life makes a very brief cameo.)
tanelos is the WIP journal.Moral of my writing process:
Procrastination's a bitch. In particular,
(Although I must mention that the above word count includes my appendix on Terionach and Archniniei units of measurement, which are actually metric in origin.)
Morals of my story
(Cliche moral) Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, sexes, creeds, colors, ages, sexual orientations, and with all manner of physical descriptions and handicaps.
(World building moral) If you exile people with certain metapsychic powers, don't expect for them not to breed in exile or for their descendants not to come back and get you.
(Interesting plot twist moral #1) Don't mess with dragon genomes.
(Interesting plot twist moral #2) The first time someone who has never directed a psychic concert of thousands does so, don't be surprised if he goes a little power-mad.
(Interesting plot twist moral #3) CRUOR EMICAT UT FONS
Genre: SF
One-liner description:
A centuries-long cold war between two superpower nations of the psychically gifted heats up when a tyrannical mage-lord declares war on both sides.
Acknowledgements:
- Technical assistance
- Miitary strategy and tactics in an SF environment: burkhardt, hempknight
- Martial arts (which I know next to nothing about): phawkwood
- Imperial successorship, historical: darana
- Miitary strategy and tactics in an SF environment:
- References (any remaining mistakes or stupidities are entirely the fault of yours truly)
- Metaconcert programming and template design: Julian May, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey
- Mounted combat tactics
- Equestrian: Mercedes Lackey
- Aerial, draconic: Anne McCaffrey
- In-jokes (spoiler alert): Farscape, Azureus, The Fellowship of The Ring, zengeneral, Homestar Runner, Strong Bad (take a wild guess), miajesbar, Hugin, O. Sharp, Gladiator, tamf, angular momentum, Firefly, Weekend At Bernie's</font>
- Blatant scene rip-off: the AT-AT/mumak rope trick from The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of The King
- Moral support and encouragement: jereeza, yodge, miajesbar, masteralida, dragnflye, nobuddy69, hempknight, burkhardt
- Burnination: f00dave
Gratuitous computer science and mathematics references
- Conditional probability (Rizulek/Alinyel)
- Traveling Salesman Problem (the Autarch and Praetor of the Terionach vs. the Mage-Lord)
- Maximum entropy (Autarch and decoy vs. the Mage-Lord)
NaNoWriMo is Victory, and Victory is Life,
Banazir
