So I don't update this thing nearly enough.
Then again, I'm not real sure people are reading this except to look at pretty Gambit pictures.
Which reminds me that I never did review #4. And technically I didn't review #3 either but I figured since they were the end of the first arc I'd wait to do them together...
But I scrapped that because of Akicon. I did not have the will power to write a full review. Suffice to say that the comics are good! Even newcomers to comics this is a good place to start. Because you honestly don't need to know a thing about Gambit! The writer is good enough to spell it out on the first page: he's a thief that plays at being a super hero/teacher and has been stuck in the friend zone by his ex-girlfriend. Done. From that moment on it doesn't matter who Gambit is necessarily but what he's doing. There's no overwhelming amount of characters, just Gambit and a few minor characters introduced solely for this plot arc.
So comic reviews aside... I've been working on National Novel Writing Month.
For those that don't know, National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo and often shortened to NaNo) is the goal of writing 50,000 words in one month. That's roughly 1,667 words each day. As it is day four I should be at about 6,668 by tonight.
I'm at about 4,180 words right now so, for those of you not following along at home with your own math, means I need to write about 2,500 today to catch up. An actually very doable goal for me. If I ever stop writing silly blog posts long enough to add to my word count... I'm still waking up. I'm going to blame that.
Anyways, I've been making posts and updates on facebook since the first and realized that I haven't posted anything about what my story's about. So this blog post is here to fix that!
Helen is an army scientist that was ordered to look into creating a super soldier serum by General Stover. She comes up with a possible serum but chickens out, trying to run and hide with the serum so the army can't use it. This plan fails and Stover captures her and decides to test the serum on her younger brother, William, which transforms him into a lycanthrope-like beast. While both Helen and William escape from Stover, he is still after them as well as a vampire named Izzy. She is one of the few blood suckers not to lose her mind after being turned and Stover is hopeful that her blood contains the key to perfecting the serum 'work out the kinks' to what happened to William. So not only does Helen intend to keep Izzy away from Stover, she's also hopeful that Izzy's blood contains the key to curing her brother. And, hey, Izzy's not picky because she'd like a cure for her fanged problem so that she can go home! But it turns out that William may not want to be cured. He may actually like his new body... And now Helen must struggle to get her brother back in more ways than one.
And that is a much longer summary that I would normally do. But I haven't quite boiled this one to his essence yet. I've only had this idea for five days now. So I'm surprised I have this much!
In other news, this is also a lesbian romance. Izzy and Helen hook up.
Mostly because at first Helen was supposed to be a man named Leon. But as I got started imagining scenes, Leona kept acting... female. Not girly or feminine, which is perfectly acceptable behavior for men. But he acted very positively female... So instead of forcing him to be something he wasn't, I gender swapped him into Helen. Which worked because I originally wrote Izzy to be bisexual.
And that is basically it at the moment. I've got a subplot going on as well with another villain which deals more with William possibly wanting to keep his super powers... But it's a subplot. Same as the romance honestly... even if it does take center stage for a long stretch...
But otherwise that's basically it! Off to writing land!
