So, um, yes, it's going to be November soon?

And yes, I have signed up for NaNo again.

I'm doing something a bit different this year: every year the best part of NaNo is the worldbuilding research, so this year all I'm doing is writing about worldbuilding - basically I'm going to attempt to write the comprehensive worldbuilding guide that I look for every year and can't find.

Here is the current working outline: ( Built around the concept of a map, of course, as I am trained as a geographer )

There, now I can no longer say 'I can't write today because I've lost my outline.' :P

Anyway who knows how much of it I'll actually do, and I'm hoping I get distracted by a novel halfway through (there's this YA thing about siblings and suburbia and oral history and four-gendered aliens in the basement that I dreamed a week ago that's kind of like a blend of Daniel Pinkwater and Bruce Coville), and for NaNo I am not going to worry over-much about citations and whether some of my leaps of logic aren't really starting from firm ground, but heck, even if it only exists to help me worldbuild without having to pull out a dozen books, that'll be something.

So I am going to try to post as I go, dunno whether/how much I'll be locking (this isn't that different from some of the stuff I normally post anyway) but here:

ETA: Uggh. Filter poll was meant to go here ,but is broken for reasons I can't figure out. Coming in follow-up post. I hope.

ETA2: Ooh, I forgot this works! Have the same poll showing up in this post too. Because I can!