Thoughts on NaNoWriMo...

Well, it started out with the intention of being what I'd call "hard sci-fi" - as in, the sort of thing I usually write, just purely science fiction based on the premises of what is scientifically theoretically possible, with no flowery magicky gods-and-demons spiritual aspects that can't be scientifically quantified and whatnot.

...Now it seems to be wanting to become a horrible mishmash of steampunk-ish alien-Victoriana sci-fi and faux-historical fantasy, with a helping of pseudo-Bloggery on the side, and small diversions into strange territory like sacrifice/cannibalism and body-modification and weird psychology. Mirii, the pierced and painted goddess-daughter born of thunder, to fulfil ancient prophecies, to bring the rains and end years of drought, and to end up on the dining table... Sei, trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a past-computer-age society driven by steam and pneumatics, unable to return to the surface without the help of his hosts, some of whom seem intent on instead turning him into a giant battery to drive long-dead computers and help them recover the words of ages past. Suni... well, sort of trying to help out, but equally content to sit back and let them plait feathers and flowers into its fur.

There won't be any magic or real deities, so far as I can help it, but the "hard sci-fi" aspect of it is diminishing. I mean, for all their astrological ability, the closest the "Maya" are getting to the stars is making up all kinds of cosmological deities. :\

It's all going to go horribly wrong, I can just sense it. Argh!

Edit: I forgot to mention the were"wolves" and hallucinations. Bad me!