I haven't been on here in forever!

So, I just wrapped up another wonderful year of NaNoWriMo....and I'm almost done with my book!!  Here is a little bit about it..its a fantasy/romance and I feel it has it good story line.  I'm by no means a professional and this is all in a little bit of rough form, so take the good with the bad and skip my mistakes please. ....

Decades ago, certain people were born with an ability to manipulate the four elements of Eden. As time passed they gained the name of primes, the chosen children of Eden. The fawns, tempests, torrents and brashen people began to be treated differently than other people and just as what happens when things are misunderstood, a war broke out.

The Primes, Sterling’s as they called themselves, had to resort to using their elements in a brutal manner in order to protect their own from the barbaric men that claimed to be the Umbrage. The grisly battles brought about the construction of Eden’s wall to separate the land in hopes to save some lives.

As time went by the Umbrage grew with the intent to exterminate the primes, feeding their people vicious lies about them harming the land as they use their elements. They built an army they called the unit that existed for only one purpose, hunt and slaughter Sterling’s primes.

Sterling was not racist against humans and welcomed both primes and non-primes into their gates, but traditions took place and women lost their rights to hold the power of an element at their fingertips and many girls were forced into Umbrage to be dealt with.

Eden’s bright light is dimming, her beautiful land is marred with the scars of the war, her people are merciless as they destroy life after life…when will it end?

What's the deal?

In the last week I have hit two writing blocks!  I got around them thank goodness and got a few scenes out anyways but still, give a writer a break!
So between pounding out scenes I had a very interesting week, my car was broken, my oldest daughter broke out in hives and my husband and I decided to grow a tomato family.  And oh how just a day or two can let in big changes, My car is fixed, my daughter we found is allergic to apricots as well as pears, and my tomato plant is ruined thanks to my youngest daughter.  I don't know, just had me thinking about scenes and how every time something changes it is time to move on.  Writing is kind of like life in a sense, I mean if we spill a glass of milk on the table, are we going to; sit and think about how we could have not spilled it or are we going to clean up the mess and continue on into the next disaster?  I don't' know about you but I would just clean it up =).  And so in a way it is just like writing.  When i know I have muffed up a scene, I don't go back and rewrite it, I just continue on and when I am done with my first draft I will fix it.  Just my thoughts for the day.
I have also made a very detailed outline with roughly 50 scenes in it so I always know where I am headed.  I wrote each scene on a note card book that I keep in my purse and when ever the idea comes I just flip to my scene and jot it down. Oh and I have taken out the chapter dividers and decided that I work better with scenes.  So I will write all my scenes out first for my first draft, then I will hide my laptop from my vision and relax for a few weeks while I have the new "I did it" attitude, then I will reread my novel and rewrite scenes one at a time, then separate into chapters and edit and possible have a close friend edit and hopefully publish or self publish...so I know I have a looooong way, but I am working on it.  Slow but steady wins the race =)

So I figured out I do much better on my computer...

I am better at writing with my laptop rather then my notebook.  But I really liked the idea of being able to jot down notes here and there for later, so I got a novel writing program called the 'ywriter'....and I love it!  I ended up with a 908 word count yesterday and it just amazes me how when I write things just start to come together almost naturally. 

I am happy to say that I now have my husband's help in making sure I get to my computer for an hour of writing each night, somthing about being able to boss me around for a change seemed to appeal to him lol.

I once again have a good chunk of usable material, my novel has moved forward again and I once again know where I will be picking up tonight, man why didn't I try this technique sooner?  I couldn't help but think about all the other wonderful things I could do with just an hour a day.  If we dedicate just one; one measly, overlooked ,quick passing hour each and everyday...we could do, learn, accomplish just about anything!

An hour a day makes the dreamer stay <3

How day one went.

Last night around 7pm I sat down with a notebook and wrote nonstop for an hour.  I think a lot of what I wrote is actually usable with a bit of tweaking.  It wasn't easy to write for an hour with virtually no idea what to write about at the time, but once I got things going it got a little easier and ideas starting coming my way.  I was writing about one of my off main chars (that's my new term for almost sorta main char) and his back-story on how he realized he was a psychic...things got sketchy and difficult and extreamly sloppy but now I have a pretty good idea on what to work on and I added in all my side notes in the margins (love my notebook).  I also have a better feel of Greg the psychic, my off main char, and his personality and more importanly...I know what I will be writng about today when my 7pm writing block rolls around.

That's my update...happy writing =)

Well, I appoligize!

I'm sorry, I haven't really been on here as of late...lots of things have been going on in my life and I had a period of insanity.  Things are somewhat better now and I have been writing some. 

Anyways, down to business!

March 15th...today...marks the official starting day to write my novel.  OK I had started on it a while back and have some chapters under my belt, but for the next six months (hopefully it wont take that long) I will be writing everyday!  Sounds kinda grueling and so I decided to make a word count goal for each week rather than each day.  My goal list will look something like this:

• week 1- 2000 words
• week 2- 2000 words

And so forth.  I figure if after I sit at my computer and write, even its bad and sloppy, I can check off my list and feel accomplished.  Its my back up plan for the days I just can't think of anything...though I don't have very many of those, I am blessed with about 30 constant thoughts at all times lol.

So I feel very well prepared in most aspects of my writing.  I have possibly the best outline I have ever written so far at least (someone asked me if it was for a book already written and I still glow with pride from that compliment) and I have some pretty elaborate character descriptions...though most of my chars are going to grow through the story I believe.

I will be diving back into "the apple" tonight and I plan on being there for a while, an extended stay...I will update when I can...wish me luck =)

*Oh and one more thing...I see that a few people do in fact visit my page so why not join and become a fan?  I would love to have some fans and some comments and opinions roaming my page =)

wow! I did it!

I wrote an entire novel summery that not only is interesting but it all  makes sense and the events all co inside together!  YAY!  I will post it up shortly, for now I just had to flaunt my success!  I did it!

Well I got it done!

I finally finished all ten of those Bio's last night and I tell you I had to force myself to sit down and do it but now after all the complaining and whining, I am glad I did it!  I actually have a feel of my character's past and present circumstances, not just my main character but also a few of my minors.  I am sure I will change these up as I go but it really makes them feel real to me.  I mean to see that my character would rather eat at ..., cant live without ..., and is terrified of ...makes me see that he/she isn't a character at all, he/she is a person now.  A person with a family, a past and a preference in things.

I don't know, I just wanted to come lay some light on the situation.  It was still a difficult assignment and one I am glad is over but it really opened my eyes to their world.

I have decided that I will add a love concept into my novel and I am also seriously considering writing it in third person.  Sadly, I don't feel I am ready to tackle a first person point of view novel.  However I strongly feel that this story will not be my last, so I am sure that one day I will brave enough to tackle such a view and skilled enough to make it believable.

I also want to say that today is very special to me as it is my three year wedding anniversary to the man I cannot live with out!

"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser.  In case you thought optimism was dead"
~Robert Brault