...about a little thing coming up called NaNoWriMo. I know, I know, you fellow writers out there might be thinking, "NaNoWriMo? But that's over a month away!" Or, you might be thinking, "Finally! It's only a little over a month away!" Or if you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, you'll be thinking, "What the heck does NaNoWriMo mean?"
NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, created by Chris Baty back in 1999 for writers to attempt the supposedly impossible - write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days (the official, formal number for this is #A30/31/50K). I say supposedly impossible because I've done it three times now and this November, I'll be attempting my fourth win. The first year, it was so incredibly hard, but I managed to write The Worst Novel Ever (then Dark Beauty) in the span on 30 days. It ended up being a little over 80,000 words and I was so proud of myself! In fact, I'm still pretty proud of the fact that at the age of fourteen, I managed to write an entire novel in one month. The book sucked, it was the worst thing I've ever written (and I've written a lot of really bad stuff) and I refuse to let anyone read it. But it was my first complete novel, so I kept the bound copy I got for finishing NaNoWriMo and it's hidden away in my closet under a stack of clothes so I never have to look at it again.
Thirty-three days from now, NaNoWriMo will being and I'll be attempting this and I encourage everyone to join me on this perilous quest. I promise that it's either going to be either the worst writing experience of your entire life or the best. Once I get up my contact information in that little tab up above, feel free to contact me about that (I love gaining writing buddies! But I am anti-creep. Stay away creepers).
I won't post about NaNoWriMo again until a little further into October, but that's when I'll start posting my intentions for NaNo... Intentions including what novel I'll be working on! I promise that I'll include a cover and a summary, along with how far I plan on working it through. As of now, though, I'd like to completely finish the first draft for NaNo.
Until then.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Hello, hello!
For those of you new here (which is everyone), welcome to my blog. I've tried keeping a blog in the past, but it has never worked out. But this time, unlike every other time, I'm determined. So here is my blog: Confessions of a Novelist. Yes, I am a writer. I'm not published, but that's because I just love taking my dear, sweet time writing novels.
My current work is Revolutionary. If I tell you the plot, you have to promise not to jump down my throat. "Jessie, that is so cliche!" "Jessie, that's so overdone!" "Why don't you go get an original idea!" I know people think that. Just listen: dystopian novel, set in the New American Colonies, because the world has gone to crap, Europe as a whole disintigrated, and America and Russia moved in before anyone else could, splitting the continent in half. Unfortunately for this society, after less than one hundred years, their world gets just as screwed up as it had been before. Now, women have been turned almost into actual objects. No speaking in public, cover your hair and face at all times, don't cut your hair, etc. etc. The daughter of a duke is set to marry the prince of the NAC, Jefferson Jefferson III, in fact, she's walking down the aisle on her wedding day when the book starts! But then, the group of rebels who had been almost nonexistent since the death of Victoria Schmidt's mother kidnap Victoria and hold her for ransom. If the king doesn't change the laws that are oppressing women, they will slaughter Victoria and make the entire country watch - and then they'll come after the king. Can't tell you much of what happens after that, but let me tell you - it involves threats of disembowelment, making out in a broom closet, a secret marriage, betrayal, revenge, and a dreaded love triangle that I swore I would write out but love too much to do so.
I don't have anything else to say. Check back for more posts or for the pages to be updated. You know you want to find out what happens to Victoria. Does she help the rebel women or turn them in? What about her little sister who's left to fend for herself at the palace? Who will she marry? What will happen to the queen? The king? The country itself? I promise that you might find out soon enough...
Until then.
My current work is Revolutionary. If I tell you the plot, you have to promise not to jump down my throat. "Jessie, that is so cliche!" "Jessie, that's so overdone!" "Why don't you go get an original idea!" I know people think that. Just listen: dystopian novel, set in the New American Colonies, because the world has gone to crap, Europe as a whole disintigrated, and America and Russia moved in before anyone else could, splitting the continent in half. Unfortunately for this society, after less than one hundred years, their world gets just as screwed up as it had been before. Now, women have been turned almost into actual objects. No speaking in public, cover your hair and face at all times, don't cut your hair, etc. etc. The daughter of a duke is set to marry the prince of the NAC, Jefferson Jefferson III, in fact, she's walking down the aisle on her wedding day when the book starts! But then, the group of rebels who had been almost nonexistent since the death of Victoria Schmidt's mother kidnap Victoria and hold her for ransom. If the king doesn't change the laws that are oppressing women, they will slaughter Victoria and make the entire country watch - and then they'll come after the king. Can't tell you much of what happens after that, but let me tell you - it involves threats of disembowelment, making out in a broom closet, a secret marriage, betrayal, revenge, and a dreaded love triangle that I swore I would write out but love too much to do so.
I don't have anything else to say. Check back for more posts or for the pages to be updated. You know you want to find out what happens to Victoria. Does she help the rebel women or turn them in? What about her little sister who's left to fend for herself at the palace? Who will she marry? What will happen to the queen? The king? The country itself? I promise that you might find out soon enough...
Until then.
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