A few of my favorites

I wanted to share with you a *few* of my favorite cards this year. Also, that's the stack of cards I sent out this year - minus a few. Yeowser it felt like a lot. :)

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Cards

Days 6-11 (NaNo)

Day 6: 24,570
Day 7: 27,705
Day 8: 33,802
Day 9: 35,830
Day 10: 40,179
Day 11: 50,002

Yes, I rock and am absolutely insane at the same time. I plan on finishing the novel sometime before the end of the month. I'll start edits on Roselyn's Legacy, and then probably sometime after the new year, begin edits on The Zoe Project. Unfortunately, due to the hack and slash method of which I've been writing, I think there will be a lot MORE edits that need to be made than in Roselyn's Legacy.

But it's still so worth it.

NaNoWriMo 2009 - 5 day recap

Really, I'm doing this for my own records. I've ended up looking up what notes I made about last year out of curiosity, so I'm logging my word count here so I have something to compare to for next year.

Day 1: 2,221
Day 2: 4,281
Day 3: 8,009
Day 4: 12,407
Day 5: 17,140

It's hard to believe that I'm only on day 6, because as of this post, I'm at 20,018. Technically, I could not write for another whole week and still be on track. Not that I'm going to do that, of course.

I find that I'm falling in love with this story as much as I loved Roselyn's Legacy. I'm really surprised at that, because *snif* I didn't know if I could love another story that much.

Anyway, back to the grind. I'm aiming for 22-23k before the write-in tonight.

NaNo Update - Day 4

At this point in the day, I'm at 10,580

Also ... this is something I highly recommend. I like to put faces with names. It helps me daydream a little bit, and when I can put a face to it, it helps me put mannerisms, etc in mind.

So that being said, here's what I've got so far:

Rachelle Lefevre as Adriel Ducette
















Chris Pine as Marek













Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Welkin Hendershot

Pretty Necklace

I made this necklace Saturday night in 2 hours, give or take a little. I think it's by far my favorite that I've ever made. I don't think the pictures do it justice, because in person, the light caught the beads nicely.

The Best Accidents

So far, this novel is a vastly different process than the last one. That's not to say that it's better or worse, it's just different. A little more challenging in that I have a lot fewer things up front to work with, but I'm finding an unexpected freedom in that, too. I had five years to think about the last one. I knew exactly who was in it, where it was going, how it ended. Some unexpected things happened while writing it, yeah. But this story is already so different.

The "accidents" I've made with this novel have been cooler than anything I've intended so far. I keep pulling names out of my head, and they end up meaning something totally fitting or awesome - and it's totally a fluke. Then, I made my main character interact with the guy next to her, just for the sake of not having all internal dialogue. This character has just made himself the third most important person in the story, now. Totally not planned. Even though I changed my main character's name, I managed to come up with a rhyme and a reason for my title, which had the original name. I am so accidentally awesome.

I love it. I love writing, and I love NaNoWriMo.