First Story Editor's Meeting

Tonight was the first meeting of the story editors (my two girls) for our bit of fan fiction called "The Last of War" that we will get started during the madness known as National Novel Writing Month (or nanowrimo, for short).  

"The Last of War" is a story about one of our favorite comic book heroes, Wonder Woman.  That's right, it's a Wonder Woman story.  Don't judge.  

From my perspective, she is one of the most intriguing characters around given her roots in Greek mythology.  Yet, few comic writers and artists really find the core of who Diana is and fewer still give her a really good adventure complete with super villians, larger-than-life monsters and epic battles where she lead and inspire others in the midst of battle.  

My two girls and I really feel there should be a movie or three made about Wonder Woman that would have all of this in it.  Since none is in the works, I thought we would have fun and make our own.

So, the girls are the story editors and I am the head writer.  We had our first meeting, tonight.  I showed them my first set of notecards for the story (it's a fancy app for the iPad that works really well).  As I laid out the story, they then tell me if they "got" it and then they offer their suggestions and changes.  

I'm excited just because this is a story I've seen play out in my head so often, I feel like I know every part of it.  It will feel good to get it out, finally.

The first bit is a prelude I call "The Lost Letter", which introduces a lot of the Greek heroes who are in the background, and whose legacy continues through Diana aka Wonder Woman. 

Next up, the last of the Olympians is freed by an Atlantian Queen and a horde of zombie warriors.  Good times!

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I guess this has become a thing now...

Last year, I engaged in a crazy thirty days of writing frenzy along with a few hundred thousand of my closest friends, and I actually got a novel written thanks to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).  

Now that I've fiuled "Blood Iron Cross" under "do something with this some day!", I've decided that I like writing very much.  I would like to do some more of it in hopes of one day doing it well.  So, instead of giving this blog the name of one novel, I've changed it to encompass all and future creative ventures.  "Camp Wanderlust" is... an interesting title (at least, to me).

The title may seem odd, so a word of explaination:  You see, I used to keep notebooks full of moody and dark poetry and some story ideas, and the title of my favorite one was "Wanderlust."  This is because I had terrible wanderlust, wandering all over the woods near my home, and all about.  I always felt driven to see what was over the next ridge from Ridge Road.  That inspired the poetry and story ideas, so, "Wanderlust" seemed like a good name for my blog.  Alas, many others thought the same, so it was quite unavailable for a blog title.  Also, Project: Wanderlust was taken.  So, why not go to camp?  After all, this is a bit of a retreat... a vacation, right?

Well, really what this IS is a caffinated frenzy that you layer onto your already zany life with responsibilities to job, children and wife that are still going to be there through these thirty days in November when you will be writing a novel with hundreds of thousands of other people who support each other online and in gatherings called "Write-ins" (this, by the way, is a run-on sentence, and a writing no-no most of the time... but, sometimes they can be fun).

So... care to join/pray for/heckle me as I dive into NaNoWriMo 2013? If you are participating, find BlueJago if you need a writing buddy.

I'll share more of this year's project, soon.  The only thing I'll say is that my two children have agreed to be my assistant editors this year.

Cheers!