It has begun!

What has begun? Why, NaNoWriMo, of course! I know, this post is late. I blame that on last-minute school items to complete. Let's just say I'm looking at some pretty sturdy B's for this last semester. :) I was rocking it. I took notes like a madman, I read that textbook like it was the most amazing piece of writing I've ever had the chance to write, I worked on those big projects as if my very life depended on it! But I'm getting distracted.

So, no writing done on Day 1 of NaNoWriMo, but I have a whopping 5,200 words from yesterday to add to! Go me! Is it the idea I had planned for myself that I wrote about on October 12? No, no, no... This is an old idea from 2010's NaNoWriMo that is being rewritten. The entire idea has been reread, rejected, and revised! With that said, I shall return to my writing, but rest assured, I will have a bunch of updates for you all to read soon!

3 Pages Down, X to Go...

Lately, as I'm sure you all remember from my last post, I've been doing a lot of journaling and very little novel writing. Well, just recently, I've started reading Walking in this World by Julia Cameron as well as We are all Writers: How to Use Your Journal to Cure Writer's Block Now by Mari L. McCarthy. The first focuses a lot on how important creativity is for our inner artist and encourages us to practice that creativity daily. The second focuses on lifting writer's block mainly from your journal, but it can be applied to any writing project, I think. At least, that's how I use it.

Anyway, so what I wanted to let the blogosphere know is that I have begun work on my novel once more. I wasn't liking the beginning so I started over with a couple of chapters from the MC's life before being a vampire, during her early days as a vampire, and during her early days as a Krusnik. I'm hoping these will eat up some of the timeline so that I can reintroduce Leonard in the story, though she won't know it's that Leonard until much later.

I know, and some of you are going, "Who's Leonard???" Just read my novel when I release it, and you'll know! Novel excerpts will likely be posted on my website that I'm creating for my novel. Link will come soon.

My Novel is Taking Off!!!

So, recently my mother was asking me some questions about my characters to help me figure out how to make my character's respond. Well, her questions brought to mind some questions of my own so then I sat down and wrote out some character sketches. This took my novel in a new direction, but it's also taken off in that new direction. I am very happy that my novel is now taking off, but now I need to stop blogging so I can keep writing!

Chapter 1 Writing and Editing -- Post One

There will be multiple posts under the same title during the writing and editing process of each chapter. Each one will be numbered "post x."


So, recently I have begun working on chapter 1. This began soon after my first post on this blog. It was soon followed by my mother willingly reading and editing the first few pages. She's trying to help me create the personalities for my characters, asking me questions about who my characters are, etc. to try and create dialogue that flows with their personality. I have problems with this a lot so her advice is really helping. Because I am actually hoping to publish this novel, I'm not going to be posting any of it on my blog. However, I might work on small exercises or even a side story to keep my writing skills up to par. Unfortunately, a few days after beginning writing, the rush of words soon fell flat once more. I am planning on typing up what I have so far then writing out the prologue as well as character sketches and back stories. Back stories will also end up making it into the novel, but I may post up the character sketches.