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This November, step away from reality and into a whimsical adventure as you write.
Inspiration is a hunter, prowling through the rocks, watching silently until the time to pounce. And when inspiration pounces, you become completely consumed in its fire. It becomes your emperor, and you its pawn. It's a gale force wind and you are its sail. Barely containing its whims. Spilling over with magic.
And you want that, don't you?
It's the kind of thing that captures your imagination, makes you want to chase it.
And chase it you will, tonight.
The moon is full, the kind of milky brilliance that you have to draw the curtains for, so a little of its magic can spill onto the cold hardwood floor. A low fire on the opposite wall makes the rug orange, just warm enough to chase away the chill that nips your toes. A cup of lukewarm tea, half-drank, set aside since you'd mostly taken its warmth into your fingers in between pages.
You'd grabbed a blanket to wrap up in awhile ago. It made writing a little harder, what with the bulk of its cozy folds getting in the way of your hands and making you so... sleepy....
Dreams do funny things, most especially when there's something different in the air. It makes you believe in magic, and choose strange choices and hear strange music. Even now, in your room, the world of magic and the world of reality come strangely close, the wall between them shimmering and rippling in the moonlit breeze.
If you're not careful, you'll find yourself somewhere else- somewhere inspitation will seize you and not let go.
Welcome to NoQuWriCo 2025: The Fire Unquenched. This year, you will embark on a magical quest as you unlock the secrets of inspiration and ignite your imagination like a phoenix reborn. In this topic, you can announce your project that you will be taking with you on this quest! While the classic project is a new novel, you are welcome to do any other type of writing project, so long as it's written by your own fingers!
I got past 14k at the end of yesterday... I've been keeping track less of how much I've been doing per day. I actually managed to get the full daily requirement once last Wednesday, but then did only about 400 words on Thursday, so it ended up averaging out to my normal 1000. Saturday, instead of being a day that I wrote a bunch extra to pretend I was catching up, ended up being a day that I only ended up writing about 500 words. It was around that time, though, that I realized that I'm now past the word count I had achieved in my other writing project before I decided to restart it, so that's fun.