Building a Story To-Do List

This year’s NaNoWriMo has turned into another series of short stories and that’s sent me digging back into the vaults to see which outlines are ripe for word counts. I didn’t plan for the first story to die out at 10k, or the second to round out a 5k, so I’m needing some serious story bones right now…

So far I have finished off

  • The Tear’s of Winter — New universe, 10kish
  • Werewolf Sick Days — Tales of the Drunken Unicorn, 5kish

Older Stuff I have I can work on

  • Last Requests — Nothing done on this one other than the really rough outline
  • Chewtoys — Plenty of room for prose expansion on ‘this is what happened’ sum-up bits
  • Silverwitch — very very rough idea of where it was going, so lots of room to run
  • The Ties That Bind — Lots to prose out still, but it might be better to finish Silverwitch instead of working on the sequel
  • Inheritance — Still needs a lot of prose written, but the story itself has issues, might be good to work those out in a NaNo rush.
  • Natural Instincts — Almost no prose done, pretty much an untouched universe so lots of room to wiggle
  • Three Tequila, Floor — Lots of room to run here, very vaguely roughed out. Also bonus for being in the same ‘verse as Werewolf Sick Days (TotDU)
  • The Wolves of Windsor Dorm — Only a very loose idea, but I keep referring to it in the other TotDU stories

I have a few other stories in the wings, but I think I’ll start with these and roll out the others as needed! 🙂



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