lily_winterwood
battlestar_blog

Hey there! It's Chris Baty again, and hoo, boy, have I been watching some television. Do you know this show Battlestar Galactica? I've just started in on the first season, and I am shocked by how much stuff the show's writers borrowed from NaNoWriMo.

For instance, Battlestar Galactica centers on a group of humans stranded in space after their worlds have been destroyed by their enemies. NaNoWriMo takes place in the space of November. In Battlestar Galactica, people are hunted by shape-shifting robots who sometimes wear red dresses. In NaNoWriMo, participants sometimes hunt for the, uh, red address bar, where…um.

Shoot. Okay, so the similarities break down a little bit at the granular level. But there is one irrefutable nod to NaNoWriMo in the show that many veteran NaNo participants likely noticed right away. The crew on BG use mysterious technology to "jump" from one galaxy to the next, folding time and space to cross vast distances in the blink of an eye.

This was obviously inspired by NaNoWriMo's two famous wormholes, which fling writers forward (in a good way) when they hit 25,000 and 35,000 words. At these magical tipping points, normal rules of NaNoWriMo physics no longer apply. Forward writerly motion becomes easier, fitful stories take off, and word-counts begin accelerating towards warp speeds.

tolstoy247
fictionwriters

Hello, there!

I'm a major fan of supernatural creatures/ fantasy/ mythology, so based on those motifs I will be writing much about them!

I usually like to write about 19th century England or Russia with an accentuation on dystopian attitudes.

I'm also, dare I say, a hopeless romantic. Romance does come into play in most of my stories.

I'm starting out with the first chapter of a new story I came up with.  It's called "To Death", so please check it out!

I will be sure to have more stories soon!!

A little synopsis of my story: It is about a young girl who moves to California and the exciting and portentous adventures she faces when she is kidnapped by five attractive, yet murderous men.

Please read and tell me what you think!!

Love you all!

--Tolstoy247