I've done my NaNo quota today, but I'm ready to do a bit more, so I'm not posting my daily results yet.

What I am posting is a little bit about the novel's next location.

I now have three of the four pilgrims in my story. Monkey and Xuanzang are more or less the same as in Journey to the West, though Monkey is distinctly less powerful in my version. Aunty Zhu is my story's version of Zhu Bajie, the pig, who is male in the original. (Zhu means Pig in Chinese).

The fourth pilgrim in the original is a river demon called Sha Wujing. Originally I was going to have him appear in Guilin, which is a nasty nasty city (but with one of the nicest surrounding countrysides in China). Then I remembered a place I'd read about called Fengdu, the City of Ghosts, somewhere along the Yangtze river. Fengdu is a Taoist necropolis modelled on the Chinese Hell, and thus seems like the perfect place to set a chapter. I read about this place years ago, and always wanted to visit. The only problem is, it was recently flooded permanently due to the Three Gorges Dam project, and now most of it is underwater (though parts of it on top of hills are still above the water)

I certainly can't think of a better place for them to find their river demon :)