NaNoWriMo

That time of year is almost here. This will be my first time participating in whirl of creative abandon that is the National Novel Writing Month. The challenge: 50,000 words in 30 days. Visit http://nanowrimo.org/dashboard. Support writers, support readers. Celebrate language and the written word.

I will attempt to blog during this next month. Being my first time trying a challenge like this, should be interesting. In preparation, I needed a writing prompt, an idea. I asked a friend to give me a type of person, a place, a genre, a time period and an object. All of these things, I told her, would be worked into the story. Here is what she said,
         A person who is deaf
         Nepal
         Mystery
         1940's
         Urn of Human Ash

Here is what I am writing,

Geet wakes up in a remote village high in the mountains of Nepal with no memory of who he is or how he got there. All he remembers is the murder of a man. Now, deaf and lost, Geet must embark on a journey to find the murderer that plagues his nightmares.

With the help of Yaya, an elderly woman who tends to his wounds and Atmajyoti (Ata), a young orphan from the village, Geet sets out to discover who he used to be and ends up learning who he has become.

Wish me luck!