NaNo woes

I'm stumped on what to do for NaNoWriMo. My imagination is not helping with its desire for angsty, dark and edgy stuff.

Sometimes all I want to do is churn out darkness and angst. Slice of life and humour is great and all, but there are times when I want to write more gritty stuff. Problem is, it usually seems to turn out... not so great? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, to be honest.

I don't know. I think a lot of stuff might have just been bad because of my old writing style. I haven't written anything super serious lately, and I think my serious Pokémon fics were mostly well received anyway.

I'm thinking more of Golden Sun, but that was years ago... the worst one was probably that one fanfic I refuse to ever re-upload, the steaming pile of crap I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2006. Out of characterness and idiot balls galore. Sigh. Let's not talk about that.

I moved on to Pokémon after that. One fanfic I wrote in particular was pretty... eh, and the sequel was even worse. So I trashed the sequel, went back to the original, and rewrote it. I think I tended to be a bit over the top in the past, and I'd often have villains who were evil just for the sake of being evil.

Anyway... 50,000 words of nothing but slice of life and humour is... well. Visual novel writers can do it, sure. I just kind of have a hard time writing so much of it. I seem to have a hard time writing 50,000 words of anything decent. ._. NaNo just makes my brain fall to pieces. orz