I've been feeling under the weather the past several days (despite having an eventful and restful weekend), but thankfully I'm back to sorts enough to post that I finally have a NaNoWriMo topic to work with.  I'm drafting the outline and hopefully will finish that this week between working on my current WIP.

I still haven't given it a title though.  I've added a tentative synopsis on my NaNoWriMo profile, but I'm pretty sure I'll revise it to something more developed as the month goes on.

The base story though: YA fantasy/otherworld centered around a young woman undertaking a journey to figure out why a magical illness/curse took the lives of everyone in her village, and stay off a progressive deterioration of her body and mind in the vein of that illness while trying to find its cause, cure, and prevent others from succumbing to the same effects.  If that makes any sense.

Anyone that wants to add me as a writing buddy, here's my profile below.

http://nanowrimo.org/participants/rosepetals1984/

It's time for my weekly update, and I have no idea what to talk about. This may not be because of what I did this week, but mostly how I feel now.

Easter Sunday was awesome! I went to a fantasy fair with my family and it was fun. The weather was great, the people were beautiful. I bought lots of lovely stuff, among which two new books, originally Dutch books.

I've wanted to read more in Dutch lately, since I'm writing in Dutch. However, I mostly read Fantasy and most Dutch Fantasy is translated from English. I'm also a great fan of reading in the original language whenever I can, so I buy my books in English.
There exist however a few publishers who publish original Dutch fantasy, and they had stands on the fair. So I grabbed my change and bought new books. <3

Monday was slow, as I was tired. Tuesday and afterwards I was ill, probably caught the ongoing flu :( I'm feeling slightly better now, but I'm still tired and in a mood where I want to do everything and nothing at the same time. I'm forcing myself to write this, because if I don't I will loose motivation later on.

I'm currently reading 'The Killing Moon' by N.K.Jemisin.
For my writing project I'm switching every day. Sometimes I feel like writing a short story, sometimes I work on my novel project, and sometimes I even write on my series project.

...

Maybe I should explain.
I often work multiple projects at the same time. Next to the occasional short stories, I have two ongoing projects. One is something I'm hoping to contain to a single book and use for my debut (tradition or indie). The other is a longer project I'm hoping to turn into a series. Both are far from finished, far from a 1st draft even, so I'll be busy with them still for awhile.
There's also a third project, one that I plan to use for NanoWrimo this year, but I can't tell if I have enough for a series or just a novel yet. I'm not working on that a lot, though.
For my short stories, I have a 1st draft of something I'd like to submit to a contest (Paul Harland Prijs), I have an idea for another story that will either be very short (<1500 words) for another contest, or will be joining the first in the PHP contest, I don't have enough to know yet.

So that's it, a short summary of what I'm working on at the moment.

Now look at me... I didn't know what to write and yet I wrote a lot.

I'm not sure what project I'll do next week. I'm either plotting my single novel potential debut book, or I'll plot the second short story, to know what contest I'll be submitting it in.
Have a nice weekend, and for all Dutch people following - enjoy Kingsday!
~Likaiar