Yo.
Back again.
So, question. Why do I only update my blog when I'm doing NaNoWriMo activities?
...actually, the answer just came to me.
Because I'm procrastinating. If I can pretend that talking about writing will actually make me write more... then yes, yes I will talk about writing.
So! Anyway!
NaNo 2013
I spent October doing this NaNoWriMo "Warm-Up" where I "wrote" (why is wrote in quotes? I did actually write) 25,000 words. I didn't limit myself to one project/story and that helped make those 25,000 words happen. Around... the 24th?... I remembered that the ONE THING (perhaps the only thing) I learned from NaNo last year was that I should plan my novel before starting it. This started a panicked frenzy (I almost wrote prantic frenckzy? Makes sense) of me trying to come up with a plot and characters and all that good stuff.
I was on the fence for a while about writing the YA Dystopia of my dreams or a Fractured Fairytale.
Then, I remembered that I
1) hate having to dedicate so much thought to creating a believable future
2) write shoddy fractured fairytales
so I decided to write just a regular YA novel instead, about this character that I've been wanting to write about for a while.
Ok, so, I'm not the most well versed in the popular YA fiction/fantasy/dystopians/etc that's being spewed out these days, but from what I've read, authors have this thing about making their protagonists so.... nice. These leading ladies are always worrying about other people and helping people and standing up to The Man and so on and so forth, and they're all beautiful but refuse to believe it when people tell them so, and they all fall in love so deeply and irrevocably with the first hot guy they decide to love.
I wanted to write... not that.
So, Sin Walker. (Her full name is Sinnamon, because I saw the name at work and decided it was an amazing name). She is... a bitch. A popular, rich, gorgeous, selfish, horrible person. Sin has simple desires. She just wants to be Prom Queen. She just wants to rub her high school success in all the other girls' faces.
She has a problem, however. Despite trying to avoid it, she's a witch, and her witchy witch powers are starting to show.
That's the super basics.
Obvs, there will be romance, conflict, and adventure.
I couldn't find the really AWESOME sign for Fort William, that had the two guys back to back, about to duel, but this is good enough. Minnesotans, you know what I'm talking about.
Uhhh what was I talking about.
How much Young Adult cookie-cutter novels infuriate me?
Nooo
Hmmm
You know, I would like to write a book that when (if) adapted to a movie, would have Daniel Day-Lewis portray all the actors. Just because... DDL...
What was I even talking about?!
Oh yeah, procrastinating.
Well, I think I've done a good job of it so far.
here's a cat.
Let's Get Writing!!!
Word Count: 2,888
Feeling: Why couldn't I find an acceptable DDL Gif?! That's not a mood. Or a feeling. Um, feeling like cats are dumb.
Back again.
So, question. Why do I only update my blog when I'm doing NaNoWriMo activities?
...actually, the answer just came to me.
Because I'm procrastinating. If I can pretend that talking about writing will actually make me write more... then yes, yes I will talk about writing.
So! Anyway!
NaNo 2013
I spent October doing this NaNoWriMo "Warm-Up" where I "wrote" (why is wrote in quotes? I did actually write) 25,000 words. I didn't limit myself to one project/story and that helped make those 25,000 words happen. Around... the 24th?... I remembered that the ONE THING (perhaps the only thing) I learned from NaNo last year was that I should plan my novel before starting it. This started a panicked frenzy (I almost wrote prantic frenckzy? Makes sense) of me trying to come up with a plot and characters and all that good stuff.
I was on the fence for a while about writing the YA Dystopia of my dreams or a Fractured Fairytale.
Then, I remembered that I
1) hate having to dedicate so much thought to creating a believable future
2) write shoddy fractured fairytales
so I decided to write just a regular YA novel instead, about this character that I've been wanting to write about for a while.
Ok, so, I'm not the most well versed in the popular YA fiction/fantasy/dystopians/etc that's being spewed out these days, but from what I've read, authors have this thing about making their protagonists so.... nice. These leading ladies are always worrying about other people and helping people and standing up to The Man and so on and so forth, and they're all beautiful but refuse to believe it when people tell them so, and they all fall in love so deeply and irrevocably with the first hot guy they decide to love.
I wanted to write... not that.
So, Sin Walker. (Her full name is Sinnamon, because I saw the name at work and decided it was an amazing name). She is... a bitch. A popular, rich, gorgeous, selfish, horrible person. Sin has simple desires. She just wants to be Prom Queen. She just wants to rub her high school success in all the other girls' faces.
She has a problem, however. Despite trying to avoid it, she's a witch, and her witchy witch powers are starting to show.
That's the super basics.
Obvs, there will be romance, conflict, and adventure.
Uhhh what was I talking about.
How much Young Adult cookie-cutter novels infuriate me?
Nooo
Hmmm
You know, I would like to write a book that when (if) adapted to a movie, would have Daniel Day-Lewis portray all the actors. Just because... DDL...
What was I even talking about?!
Oh yeah, procrastinating.
Well, I think I've done a good job of it so far.
here's a cat.
Let's Get Writing!!!
Word Count: 2,888
Feeling: Why couldn't I find an acceptable DDL Gif?! That's not a mood. Or a feeling. Um, feeling like cats are dumb.
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