Fun a Day Reseda — My 2023 Project

If you’ve been following my website, you already know about Fun a Day. You dedicate the month of January to creating art and later share it at a community event. I’ve taken part in Fun a Day Reseda for several years. My 2016 project was a draft of the novel The Remainders, which was published last year.

My 2023 project is a draft of another novel. (Christina’s Portrait is still in the works, but I’m waiting for feedback from beta readers.) This new novel is a departure from other things I’ve written. It’s the start of a YA contemporary fantasy series, and it has nothing to do with Reseda. It’s about an ordinary teenager who meets a girl with extraordinary powers. This leads him on an adventure where he must save her community and his own. The first book in the series is called The Elementalists. (I guess taking part in Loscon this year influenced me.) My goal for Fun a Day is to write the first 50,000 words of my draft by January 31. It’s NaNoWriMo with an extra day.

For inspiration, I’m looking closer to home for a change. The story takes place at our local high school, El Toro. After years of writing about the high school I graduated from, it was time to give the kids’ high school some attention. Instead of driving 70 miles to do research, I can walk down the street.