Originally, I signed up for NaNoWriMo account last year but didn't get to participate due to a few reason (one of them was my health, got a terrible inner ear infection around that time). This year will be my first attempt on it with an idea for a long (by NaNoWriMo's rule - 50k words) fiction from my Artificial Existence plot. This fiction will be submitted on TH as collection with several chapters when it's completed.

               When there was a news about Garya and Podolsk's real life counterparts retirement back in April, that really pushed my off track concerned the story development. Since I go by the logic 'OC will only exist as long as their real life counterpart does' - that means now Garya and Podolsk will be permanently cut from the future story. Although I did expect the retirement, I thought maybe just one of them would be retired, not both at once. Plot-wise this counted as major event in the timeline so I halted all other development on the minor slide-of-life plots until I'll finish writing a fiction depicting this event of a major change in the Pacific Fleet.

               It was around June I think when I decided I'm going to write this event for my first NaNoWriMo. But this event alone probably issn't worth 50k words. In the end, the plot evolved to telling brief history of the Pacific Fleet since Podolsk started his existence as commissioned submarine android into the USSR Navy back in 1980. The main cast are these OCs in the Pacific Fleet tag (which was the reason i had to upload Lazarev, Ryazan and Tributs in short period successively).

               Earlier this month I have gotten to create outline for this fiction. (contains some spoilers but most of them aren't much deeper than what already hinted in the characters' profiles). As you can see, it covers lots of events in the timeline since 1980, ending with Podolsk and Garya's last days in Kamchatka. The main characters are pretty much all available on my TH except for Gavril, who after I did additional research, is likely demoted to minor character now since it turned out MiG-31 didn't deploy to Kamchatka until 1989. Thus he has no part in the Korean Air Line Flight 007 incident like I initially believed. (just for side note - the plane that shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was Su-15 - which I didn't make an OC of, I thought MiG-31 might be chasing after the passenger plane then retreated when the plane was out of Kamchatka)

               Anyway, thanks to my stupid ancient pc for giving me a scare last week ago by refusing to boot window, I have already started well into writing my fiction. At the moment it stands at 12K words...and we barely reach the beginning of part/chapter 4.   Like...I already suspected after finishing listing the topics that it's going to exceed 50K words that never thought it will be this bad. The third chapter alone is nearly 5K words... Although, admittedly several details included in these first three chapters are those basics about the androids you can read from the plot's facts.

               By the way, it looks like my pc is perfectly okay now. = v =....  At least the ancient HD that I have been warned could fail anytime seems fine. Thought my pc was gone because the HD died but nope. I still don't know what caused it to shut down while I was out of my room to feed my cat then took ridiculously long to complete disk checking. (0% after four hours, barely reached 11% by six and took a bit over ten hours in total to finish checking and booted window successfully at last...)

               I'll still come to check on TH daily but uploading new OC will be on hold until the end pf November. In December I hope to come back and continue working on OCs outside of the AE plot.

               P.S. -  I hope maybe after finishing this fiction, Lazarev may get a favorite at last. The poor guy sure had done a lot for his fleet and suffered a lot as well... *coughs*