It’s the season for literature! Â Hopefully it won’t leave me quite this red-faced, but it is early to say. Written characters tend to take on a life of their own.
Unless something happens over the next five hours or so, I am about to write 50 000 words of erotic religious sci-fi coming-of-age humor. May the Light have mercy on my soul; I have nothing to say in my defense. It is just… NaNoWriMo. Again.
Martin – Martinus Albertus of Little Chicken Springs – lives near the east coast of Vinland (North America in our timeline). He is a high school boy of the less than very manly sort, and an avid “nimyn” (comic book addict, otaku). One day, stung by the accusation that he knows nothing about art despite his expertise in appreciating comics, he goes to the library to check out ancient art. In an art book he finds a picture of the obscure Renaissance painting The Humiliation of St Chronica, in which a female saint was undressed in public by heretical priests, and he has a sudden conversion experience. Religion is not something he is particularly familiar with, and some pretty weird things happen as he and those around him adjust to his new lifestyle.
Perhaps I should just have written about my Sims after all. Oh well. At least my arm is better.