How to (not) prepare

It is nearly the start of Nanowrimo. I am excited and also mildly freaking out, because 1) I’ve got a busy month ahead and 2) I haven’t properly started plotting yet.

The latter being the biggest of my worries. Of course, I know how the story ends. And I know that there has to be a tremendously exciting escape scene. But in the months leading up to this moment, when I thought that, hey, I might want to figure out exactly how the escaping will be done – seeing as the Institute is some kind of post-apocalyptic, well-guarded hospital version of a gulag – my brain just shrugged and went, “Nah. Future Marieke will figure that out when she gets there”.

Sigh. Thanks a bunch, Past Marieke.

Procrastination is the way to go.

So, what I did do, was procrastinate. I’m reeaaally good at procrastinating. But now that my new and improved cover art is done, I have to sit and figure out how in the world two teens will ever manage to escape from an evil, well organized governmental institution that has no problem sedating them before performing physical experiments… And also how not to, because the first attempt should probably fail.

It’s the 26^th of October. Five days to go!