Countdown to NNWM 2012 − 25 Days!

[ladyseishou]

25 days until the start of NNWM


I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

~ Henry James



Theme is the answer to your story’s question. As simple and as big as that, Nano Writer. What’s yours?

Comments

[ladyseishou]

Very cool! I'm almost afraid to ask... but you know I have to... is there something that you want to say about "apocalyptic dystopian madness"? Is this something that is mankind's inevitable fate? Can we stop it? Do we deserve it? Is it something that is actually engineered in our DNA to drive us to this madness?

[lexicalcrow]

I'm still in the process of really figuring it out, but it's definitely inspired by, well, an awful lot of things, particularly in today's society. Politics and other related things, for the most part. Now with added zombies! I may be working through a lot of societal angst with this one. ;)

That, and, IDK, apocalypses are inherently irrational, I think, and the inability to explain it away triggers all sorts of bad things in humanity. Everyone's in survival mode, and probably shock too, and it's the sort of situation where the State can step in, invoking protection rights, and do whatever they like to further their own agenda with little protest, if there's enough of a State infrastructure left to invoke such powers. My apocalypse was halted before the world ended, but what did happen was enough to trigger that, I think. That's kind of what I'm aiming for, at any rate.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like a plan ;-)