Another year, another NaNoWriMo.
I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo a few times now, always doing the traditional 50k words for the first draft for a novel. There has been some success: I’ve won three times, if my memory is correct.
While I’ll save the talk on my NaNo experiences for another day, I did want to announce one thing:
I’m doing NaNoWriMo once again. And this time, I’m doing things a bit differently.
I’m writing a podcast.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I got the opportunity to write an episode for a podcast in one of my classes last semester, and it made me fall in love with the media. I’m still not a production expert by any means, but thankfully, I am confident in the first step of creating a narrative podcast: writing.
So, while the aim is still for 50k words, my words will be in a slightly different format. Giving an average of 2.5k words an episode, my base goal is 20 episodes written, with a stretch goal of 30 episodes. While I’m not exactly sure how long the narrative for the podcast will be, this should get through much of the first act.
Now, I should mention what this podcast is. Meet The Bounty, a horror podcast following four groups of paranormal monster hunters in the town of Monty. The mayor has announced a bounty for a strange monster which haunts the town and the nearby HighRiver State Park, and each group has their own reasons for answering the call. But will any of them be successful? And what is going on with the sheriff?
Throughout the month, I’ll be giving updates on my Instagram (as I’ll be participating in LGBTQWriMo on there) and on my Tumblr, with a couple of update posts on here at the end of November. It’ll certainly be different than the times I’ve participated in NaNo with a novel, but with Ghosts of the Steel Road currently in an editing stage and most of the first draft of Petal, Pedal completed, I thought this would be a good change of pace.
To end my post, I thought it would be interesting to include my original pitch for the podcast, as I used this podcast for a series pitch in my podcast class last semester:
In the small town of Monty near the HighRiver State Park, everything revolves around tourism. From a young age, every citizen in Monty learns the rules of dealing with tourists, and they quickly grow used to even the rudest and most inconsiderate of tourists. As Mayor Everest Jenson says, "Without tourists, there would be no Monty."
So, when the tourists complain about a strange monster that is ruining their vacations and the prospect of a successful tourist season, the citizens of Monty panic.
All attempts to catch this "monster" by the Sheriff's office quickly fail, and multiple officers disappear during the investigations. Fearing for their lives, tourists and even some of the citizens scatter. Journalists and so-called paranormal investigators pick up on the rumors surrounding the monster, and Mayor Jenson finds his town's name, and his own name, being dragged further in the mud.
With options running out, Mayor Jenson declares a bounty will be given to any individual or group that apprehends or kills the monster responsible for the chaos surrounding Monty.
The episodes follow some of the groups and individuals that have taken on the challenge of the bounty, mixed in with journalists' reports on the rumors surrounding this monster. With the different backgrounds of these groups and individuals, their encounters during the hunt take on slightly different subgenres of horror (psychological horror, body horror, found footage, and gothic horror).
Is this monster truly something out of the ordinary, or just someone looking to destroy the town? What has happened to the people who disappeared? Is this the end for Monty and the HighRiver State Park?
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