I do believe I may have decided how to do NaNoWriMo this year. One with a sad ending. Or bittersweet, which is not something I've done before.

I've been reading this book, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine, the author of Ella Enchanted and many other retold fairy tales. One of the writing prompts she gives in the book is to write a story with the ending line already in mind. The one I'm choosing (tentatively, because I still have ten whole days to change my mind) is:

Maybe they would see each other again. Maybe they wouldn't. It didn't matter anymore. She waved good-bye.

Now mind you, I have no idea who they are or who she is, or even what universe this is taking place in. But I think that maybe this year I'll write my novel backwards and figure these things out as I go along. Maybe referring to my characters as he and she and they will take some of the pressure off and let me do whatever I want with these characters without feeling pressure to do something great.