if you've never heard of NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month (held in November) and it's pretty much awesome. I tried to participate last year, but by the end of the first week Munchkin had decided she wanted to try showing up early again, and then two weeks after than she was born. Needless to say I didn't really get much done, the plot was kinda sketched out, girl gets kidnapped, kidnappers disappear one by one, she escapes only to find out why her kidnappers were disappearing, zombies.... and I hadn't actually gotten much further than that, I had the main questions etched out with answers, (i.e. How did the zombies come about, what type of zombie were they, how did they move, how did they die) Armed with those questions and answers, I was letting the novel develop itself from there.
Well ever since I gave birth, I've had this macabre thought dancing around in the back of my head....what if I had been bitten at the hospital? What would we do with Munchkin? If I could survive in the Zombie Apocalypse, we would be golden, because I'm her sole food source. So long as I'm around and alive we could keep Munchkin going, especially since she would have been small enough not to inhibit movement or slow us down to much.
And since my brain worries me so much, I have this need to write it down, almost convinced that will help me exorcise the macabre ideas eating at my brain. I'm going to start plotting out a bunch of short stories from the ideas and scenario buzzing around in my brain. And then when November rolls around again it should be much easier and more planned out so I can be more focused, even though I'll have an almost 1 year old at that point.
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