April has begun and its hard to believe that Spring is on its way. One of the things I always look forward to in April is Camp NaNoWriMo and I am once again participating. I am super excited to be starting a fresh novel this year for Camp. This is especially exciting because this was the year of finishing old novels, and yet I wasn’t in the position to pick up any of my older novels to write this month.

I didn’t have enough time last month to reread/edit the beginning of my next project on “The Big 5”, and so a fantastic writer from Wriye suggested that this be my reward novel for finishing two novels off “The Big 5”! She did not have to twist my rubber arm to take this suggestion, I jumped on the chance to start a novel in a genre I’d been thinking about for a while!

The Genre in question is an “RPG Lit” and as a gamer, I am anxious to try my hand at it. I honestly didn’t even know it was its own genre until I looked into it. I was first introduced to the concept through a webcomic called Mystic Revolutions (which sadly is no longer updating). It was a fantastic webcomic with wonderful characters and cool gear, but overall I loved the fresh idea of all the action taking place within a game! It was something I wanted to try for years!

So, now I was committed to writing my very own RPG Lit and the question remained, which game would I emulate? It didn’t take very long to decide that I wanted the game that my novel would take place in to be at least similar to my favourite game, Ark: Survival Evolved. (Because dinosaurs!!!) I spent half of March designing what my game world would be like, and what the virtual reality aspect would comprise of. I planned out my vague plot, created some colourful characters, which I found were often present in each Ark-RPG server I’d played on (and one modeled after my sister’s unique play style) and was ready to get writing!

Then April came and I dove into my novel. It’s called “Untamed”, and if nothing else, its going to be a blast to write!

I hope everyone else is as excited about their Camp projects as I am!