What a way to start NaNoWriMo!!

What a better time to tackle NaNoWriMo for the first time than when I'm bitchy, emotional, impatient, moody, hungry, sick and tired.(and by tired I mean exhausted. I literally sleep all day, all weekend.)

On 10/14/2010, I found out the great news that I am pregnant! My first NaNo and my first Pregnancy...Fun!

Well there is a little under one week until NaNo starts. I don't know what to expect but I'm getting ready for anything. Plotting and playlist is underway!

Pray for my husband. My tolerance and patience will be limited throughout November. :)

Suzanne Collins Book Signing!

If anything inspires me to write, more than my sheer will to write, it is book signings. I love standing in line, or in the crowd, and hear everyone talking about their interpretation of the authors book and what 'Team' they are on. (BTW Suzanne Collins said I was the first Team Haymitch! Squee)

The event was well planned and Suzanne Collins was awesome! It was a great turnout and just when you though it couldn't get any more awesome...they gave out free cookies. Oh and Katniss Everdeen sounds very different in my head than the way Mrs. Collins read her, but that is the beauty of the written word! Every person crates the character in their own light.

I love talking to people about their favorite part of the story, because everyone has a different opinion. The idea that maybe (if I'm lucky), one day people will talk about something I've written and debate over their favorite parts and characters completely blows my mind.

I write to tell stories and the idea of actual people (moms don't count. sorry moma) reading and liking my work is enough to get my ass out of bed at 5:30 this morning and plug out 500 words before work. For those who come across this blog that don't know me...I am NOT a morning person by any means. If I wake up before 7am on a work day or 9am on a weekend, the house better be on fire.

Get Excited for NaNoWriMo!!

Yesterday I signed up for my very first NaNoWirMo. Every November writers from all over the world torture themselves into writing a full 50,000 word novel in one month, only for the award of saying you did it...and having a completed first draft. You have from Nov 1st to the 30th to complete the 50K novel. I was tempted to do it last year but I didn't have nearly as much material as I do now to choose from.

This year I am fully confident that I can conquer NaNoWriMo! I'm a bit frightened but I joined an AIM blast group so I will have some writers kicking my ass and keeping me in gear.

After much debate (between me and myself), I have decided to work on a story that I have pretty much plotted out but haven't gotten around to writing yet. It's called Montgomery Mills and its a zombie story! (Zombies = Awesomesauce)

I got on the NaNo forum and started stalking chatting a little and noticed a couple of members made really cool banners and book covers to give people an insight of what their writing about this year. So I decided to do a poor excuse of a banner for my story!



It's good enough, right. Is it November yet?

Look for me on the NaNo Forums: Boogirl

xoxo
A Wannabe Writer

Currently Reading: The Hunger Games Series

Holy crap where in the hell have I been? I have read through The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and am now a quarter of the way through Mockingjay.

Why I discover a great series when the last book comes out is beyond me.

I love the main characters.

• You have Katniss, who is this kick ass girl who sneaks into the forbidden woods in her district and hunts to keep her family fed. Without giving away plot, she is completely kick ass without knowing it, IMO.
  
  
• Then there is Gale, sweet hunk of a man Gale. Who is kick ass Katniss' best friend. He's handsome and he hunts. Nuff said. Even the times in the book when they are not hunting I picture him dirty from a hunt.[perv] Not to mention the sexual tension that comes with having a penis and being friends with kick ass Katniss.
  
  
• Peeta, is a boy after my own heart. I can't say a lot about him without giving away major plot, so I'll just say that I am soooo Team Peeta! He's the character that is mentally strong and very smart with the way he unrolls his plans.
  
  
• Last but not least my dear old Haymitch Abernathy! The drunken asshole of a mentor to kick ass Katniss and Peeta during the games. I can't help but love him.
  

I got my mother to read the books and we were talking about how we can be so in love with a drunken asshole like Haymitch. I think it's in part because Suzanne Collins wrote Haymitch's character in such a way that you kind of feel sorry for him. He drinks because of what he had do deal with in the games. Because you know he has that guilt weighing on his shoulders you kind of give him a pass for the drinking.

You get so caught up in the story and Suzanne Collins' writing, that even though a character might say something and have it make perfect sense, but it doesn't fully sink in until Katniss herself says it out loud.

Truely an awesome series, I am only a quarter of the way through Mockinjay so I will update with my opinion on the ending and what not.

xoxo,
A Wannabe Writer

P.S. Suzanne Collins is coming to my local Books-A-Million this Thursday so, squee!

Attempt Numero Tres

I have no friends who enjoy writing as I do, or even remotely close enough to have a conversation with me without their eyes rolling into the backs of their heads. So I am taking to the internet in search of writers to bug and an outlet for my writing mind. Hopefully this will be that outlet.

This will be my third attempt at keeping a blog. I don't think I'm very good at blogging. Mainly because I find that I can be kind of boring. I'm not very adventurous in life as the characters I create. Which is why I have decided to leave the personal to a minimum and keep it straight to writing.

The past year and a half has been horrific to say the least. By far the worst year of my life. But just as any writer, I pushed through it with my pen and paper (well, more like fingers and word documents). Now I am focusing on one of my 'ideas' instead of the four I was trying to juggle.

My personal goal for my current WIP, is to get the first draft done before Christmas. {Update: I dropped this idea as it was basically just a gigantic cliche of fantasy that has been done a millions of times. Not a complete loss though. I figured out that fantasy is not my forte.}

This blog will be my outlet for ramblings associated with my journey to publication.

Thanks for tuning in.