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*points* I got a NaNo icon. :)

Considering I wrote about 3,000 words in the last 24 hours, I'm doing wonderfully. :)

I'll focus on using the weekends to catch up.

Just keep writing. . .

Just wrote a particularly poignant scene (I got choked up by it, anyway), with Miranda and her baby-daddy. Gosh, calling him that so cheapens the moment, but eh. :P Let's just say, if you think Teyla and Kanaan had issues with the whole hybrid betrayal thing . . . this is kind of like that, but without the hybrid part, more of betrayal, and maybe worse, because he (Miranda's baby-daddy. Ok, his name is Brendan) wasn't under the influence of a vengeful mad scientist bent on obliterating the blight of Atlantis from the galaxy.

I just wrote 3000 WORDS. That's a big deal for me. Ok, maybe about 1,200 of those were in the last hour.

19233 / 50000 words. 38% done!

This is a bit early but I made a lot of headway yesterday and today. Still about 2,500 words behind, but hopefully I can hit 15,000 this weekend. Doesn't seem likely, but I'll try. The good thing is that the story is still in the beginning stages. I was afraid I would run out of steam way before the 50,000 mark, not having enough of a story to tell. Right now there are still a few unfinished scenes, and I've been going back and forth adding to them.

Anyway, here's one for today. It's set the next day after Miranda drives Tara home from the shop.

( Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel behind the grave first? )

11049 / 50000 words. 22% done!

Current Location: home

Last night, before I went to bed, my muse went CRAZY figuring out Miranda's back story. It's pretty awesome and rather complete. A few things she came up with:

Miranda has a kid. Who knew?
Tara discovered a secret passageway in her grandma's house.
Tara's from Brampton, Ontario, CA(nada). Her parents are American, though.

Seriously, my plot has been shot to heck by the plot bunnies of reason. Meaning, I have certain things I want to happen, but I'm having trouble making it plausible, and then tying the scenes together.

I'm going to have to change Tara's station in life, so she's a freshman in college rather than a Senior in high school. That way, I can do away with the parentals and not have to worry about her being. . .*ahem* missing for a few days. This means I'll have to rewrite a significant portion of the beginning of the story, but I'm not deleting it, because I'm already behind on my word count. I'll just tweak it as it come to me.

Today's excerpt is inspired by the writing prompt from

lj_nanowrimo . It's very short, as I don't want to spoil the story completely. There's a whole scene before it with Miranda and mysterious guy (his name is mentioned on tha scene as well). After some things transpire, the eat dinner together at Miranda's place. The prompt is bolded.

( Excerpt )

. . . . . . . . . .

7,818 / 50,000
(15.6%)

Still about 2,200 words behind. :(

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: home

I just barely cracked 5,000 words on my novel a few minutes ago. Geez, it's like pulling teeth trying to get the story going today. Maybe it's because I'm seriously fatigued. I went to bed just before 2AM, and then woke up at around 5:30 because I was cold. The cover had come off me on the bed, which in a sober reminder that I need to make my bed up properly. After that, I couldn't get back to sleep really. :(

So, yeah, despite my financial crisis, I'm going to hit up Starbucks for a Venti Chai Latte w/ no water. And a pumpkin loaf.

However, I did discover a lovely cool called Google Docs, so I won't have to keep emailing my story to myself when I work on it away from my Mac.

ETA: Got a bit more writing done, though, unfortunately, nothing I'm willing to share. Hopefully I'll have an excerpt for tomorrow's post.

Day 4 Progress:

6,032 / 50,000
(12.1%)

Current Location: work

Thanks to everyone who's left feedback on my excerpts. It really helps.

I got a good bit of writing down today. I'm at just under 5,000 words, after cranking out a really fun scene.

It was extremely slow at work today, so I got a bit of writing done during that time, filling in some scenes in the very beginning of the story, establishing more of Tara's back story.Today's excerpt features a scene that occurs directly after the scene from yesterday. It's the last thing I wrote for the day.

4867 / 50000 words. 10% done!

( Excerpt & a question )

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: home

Here's a synopsis of the novel I plan to write as posted at

lj_nanowrimo :

When confronted with the unusual stipulations of her grandmother's will, moving to back to her Dad's hometown halfway through her senior year of high school is the least of Tara's problems. Miranda is a college student working as a barista at a local coffee shop. All her life she's been waiting for a good adventure. Through a curious turn of events, she meets Tara, and they both cross paths with a mysterious young man who's about to turn all their worlds upside down in his quest to find the next Keeper.

Omg, how cliche' does that sound? I promise it's not that lame. :P

It seems a lot of people are writing fantasy stuff. Mine's on the edge of scifi, mystery, and will probably have a touch of Southern Gothic,* not that I'm really sure what that is exactly, but It's set in the South, and creepy stuff happens. Seems to fit the bill.

I actually got hit with a major plot bunny when trying to figure out the background of the "mysterious young man." He has a name, but it's yet to be revealed in the story, hence the mysterious. I'm seriously about five sentences away from revealing his name in the story, but it's on hold since I decided to backtrack and include a scene in the beginning with Tara at her grandma's funeral. I'm totally drawing from life with this scene, since my paternal grandmother passed away this summer.

And I still have to figure out exactly what a Keeper does. It just sounds cool right now. And therein lies the mystery part of my story. ;)

*Wiki'd after the fact, and my definition was pretty accurate.

Current Location: work

[Error: unknown template qotd]When confronted with the unusual stipulations of her grandmother's will, moving to back to her Dad's hometown halfway through her senior year of high school is the least of Tara's problems.

Or something like that.

Current Mood: scared

So, I'm writing a novel.

The good thing, is that I already have a rough story and main characters already down. I'm revisiting a short story that I wrote for an English class assignment back in seventh grade.

So, there's Tara Mitchell and Miranda Ramos (last name may be changed). Miranda was new, or I had an idea about her, but didn't put her in the original short story.

( The girls )

There is one more important character, but I could never nail the look I wanted for him. He's supposed to be really hot. :P It's harder for me to draw guys and make them not look androgynous. So, I'll try to take another shot at him this week.

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