Untitled NaNoWriMo Fantasy

Next month I'm writing a book. A whole book. In one month.

Yes, I'm one of the utterly insane 40,000+ people who've joined up for NaNoWriMo, a (inter)National Novel Writing Month.

I've started four books and never finished any. You know what it is. Laundry. Cooking. Shopping. Blogging. Everything gets in the way.

But as from now, I'm a serious novelist.

I have my notebook.

I have my plot.

I have characters.

What I'm writing is a fantasy novel set in the post-AIDS apocalypse. There aren't too many people left and the world needs repopulating, so women have no career choice but motherhood. Marriages are arranged between HIV negative people.

The heroine has different ideas. She wants to be a scientist. And her chosen husband is not really interested in her, he's yearning for a soulmate some fortune teller told him about.

What she doesn't know is the soulmate thing is all her fault. She cast a curse of love on them way back in the mists of time. She also doesn't know she has a countercurse on herself, to bring the lovers together in every life.

By now you've probably worked out the soulmate is HIV positive, and not allowed to marry and have kids.

So what the heroine has to do is find the soulmate, cure AIDS, and undo the curse. Just as soon as she remembers about all that past life stuff.

I just gotta put it all together. Starting November 1.