for a really long time now. I haven’t been sure that I could write it and do it justice, but I need to do something new. I’ve gotten so far removed from the Demonblade (it has been since November of 2006 since I wrote a word of it) that I’ve been having a problem picking up where I left off. The characters aren’t talking to me anymore so I need to reconnect with them before I can get serious about finishing the text. So I plan on attempting, with a little help from my family, writing a short story that has been bouncing around in my head for years. I never thought I could do it justice since it was set in the Star Wars universe.
It is about a jedi at the end of the clone wars and his struggles to escape his own troops and to deal with being pursued by an unknown person who dogs his every step. I just never wrote it down because at first I never knew much about the clone wars, except for some cryptic words in the movies and books, and then after the fifth movie, where the clone wars start, and the various books released after, I had enough info, but didn’t have the confidence in myself. I had also heard how difficult it can be to write in another persons world. Now I figure that it is time. It will give me something to work on that doesn’t have a deadline and I figure it will just be a short story, about 7500 words or so. I know that I need to get writing again. Things are starting to get back to a normal level in my life, so now is the time. I need to get that joy back that I felt creating in November during NaNoWriMo. The joy of writing something and creating a story that could be told to others. I really miss that, more than I realized. Plus it will be a good primer to get me ready for NaNoWriMo 2007.
PS don’t worry Chris, I’m not giving up on the Vampire story. That will be my Project for NaNoWriMo this year, just taking the story in a different direction.
