The People Have Spoken!

The poll to determine which genre I should fail to finish in this year's Nanowrimo is now closed, and the overwhelming winner was . . . (drum roll, please!) . . . Space Opera!!!

So I have decided to try to finish the one space opera story I seem to have in me:  the one I started back in 2004.   "But," I hear you say, "this is a story that you have already done who knows how many words of.  Isn't that cheating on Nano?"

Yea.  Yes it is.  Next question?

"But you've already written who knows how many words!  Is there any doubt you will finish it?"

Trust me, I can fail to finish this one big time.  I've been sitting on it since 2004, after all, and  haven't finished it in 14 years.  Moreover, I tried using this one for Nano back in 2015 and then I wrote . . .  hang on, this is tough math . . .  a grand total of . . .  zero words.  So trust me, I can do this.

So my only prep for this is to make sure I have all the original pages translated from (badly) handwritten to recorded on the word-processor of my choice -- What?  Oh, yes.  You in the back.

"What if you finish the story in less than 50 000 words?"

I don't think you've seen how far I can drag a story out, given the motivation.  I'm sure I can get 50k out of what plot is left (to be honest, the action hasn't even started.  It might never).  But, should the story actually get finished in fewer words than I need, I have a few options.  One is that I can just take it as a loss (but just quitting feels wrong.  For my pride, if for no other reason, I ought to fail due to my own incompetence).  Another is to write something else to fill in the gaps, and to be honest, I have an idea in the back of my head, inspired by, of all things, a line in a Ron Sexsmith song.  So we'll see.

Help Me to Help you to help me to . . . wait, I'll come in again.

It is now October, and Nanowrimo is only one month away.  

As ever, I plan to enter Nano this year, and as ever, I will fail to finish. But since I failed to finish last year due to not being prepared enough, this year I want to prevent that. But before I can do any prep or worldbuilding or anything, I need to decide which genre I will fail at. Help me out! Take the poll below!

Please select one or more choices, up to four, and list them in the comments.  If you do choose more than one, please rank your choices from 1 (the genre or subgenre you would most like to see me fail to finish Nanowrimo with) to 4 (the one you would least like to see me fail to finish Nanowrimo with). Management retains the option to ignore all suggestions. Void where prohibited by law. Burma Shave.

The choices are:

Urban Fantasy

Romantic Urban Fantasy

Heroic Fantasy (typified by Conan)

High Fantasy (typified by Tolkien)

Space Opera

Horror

Mystery

Urban Fantasy Mystery

Romantic Urban Fantasy Mystery

Other (your choice)