CHOOSEyourOwnadventure.

BOYS! grabyour Guns. it'sallin GOODFUN!

2007-11-29T20:09:00.000-08:00

Novel finished. Hell yes.
And, though I said I wouldn't yet, I started editing a little. But, only spelling so that I could actually read it to edit it in a few days.
I want to finish editing it fast so that I can buy a copy from LuLu.

According to MSWord, my final wordcount is 51,333 words.
According to the NaNoWriMo validator it's 51,327. Oh well.
But, it's pretty and shiny and I love it.
I wrote 1,287 words today. And, all of that equals Chapter Fourteen, the last chapter.

Soundtrack equals a final dose of Jackson Browne, specifically his 'Running On Empty' album.
Learn it. Live it. Love it.

Tomorrow marks the last day of my first NaNoWriMo.
I will be back, damnit, I will.

i'm BECOMING the BULL. AND A NANOWRIMO WINNER!

2007-11-28T14:25:00.000-08:00

SPOILER ALERT:: The winner's certificate matches the color's of my blog.
You know how I know this? Because I have seen it. Because I have won NaNoWriMo.
Because tomorrow I will actually finish my novel.

Today however, I've got 50,040 words to my name.
Which means that today is my miracle day. I think it's my most productive day.
I wrote 3,898 words. Yeah. Really. Of which 3,173 words are part of an Interlude. Then, 713 words are part of and all of Chapter Thirteen. Then, 12 words are part of Chapter Fourteen.

If you're going '1667' a day... fuck you. A) I don't fucking care. B) You haven't finished your novel yet, OR hit 50k, have you?

Soundtrack rich today. Songs off of a mixtape. I love it because it sounds like shit.
'We Are Pilots v.3' - Shiny Toy Guns ;; 'Lead Sail Paper Anchor' - Atreyu ..

Wow. I am the coolest person on Earth right now.

under the RADAR.

2007-11-27T15:49:00.000-08:00

Okay, this is much better.
My new total is a stunning and gorgeous 46,142 words.
I wrote 1,519 words today, which is all Chapter Twelve, which is done.
Interlude again tomorrow. And, only 3,858 words remaining before I get the suposedly beautiful winner's certificate. I want to finish tomorrow. But, that's just a want.
Only three fucking days left. Now I'm getting nervous.
And, if you subscribe to the '1667' way of life, there's 1,143 words between us.

Yes, soundtrack. 'Cinematographic' album by The Junior Varsity ;; and a few songs by Silversun Pickups ..

Rally Week, I apologize. I think we can get along just fine.

ohwellwhatever NEVERMIND. hellohellohellohello.

2007-11-26T19:28:00.000-08:00

With a shocking how-did-it-go-so-fast total of four, count 'em FOUR days remaining in NaNoWriMo.
I have written 44,623 words of the needed 50,000.
Today I wrote a total of 1,596 words.
And, I rounded out and finished Chapter Eleven at a very low total of 2,405 words.
Rally Week will equal hardships and a lot of them. It's all battlescenes and philosophy from here on out.
But, I'll only have to stretch it out for the remaining 5,377 words, which (and watch me jinx myself) want to knock out in the next two days.

Yes, I did have a soundtrack today. Although small, it was very awesome and inspiring.
Just a few songs from Silversun Pickups, and just a few songs from Nirvana.

Wow. Rally Week, I don't think we'll be best friends.
But, I'm definitely not best friends with you '1667'-ers, because I'm kicking your asses by 1,281 words.

it'snot YOURFault soPlease STOPYOURCRYING now.

2007-11-25T13:53:00.000-08:00

New total is 43,027 words. Ahead ahead ahead.
Today I wrote 1,981 words. Cool.
Okay, Chapter Ten is done at a stunning 9,610 words. Which means I wrote 1,172 words of Chapter Ten today.
Chapter Eleven is off to a start of 809 words.
My plot is all downhill from here, and drawing it out to 50k is where the challenging part of this whole thing begins.

According to my NaNo wordcount bar, I have 6,973 words to go.
I fucking rock. Admit it.
I'm ahead of you '1667'-ers by 1,352 words. Which, in case you didn't know, is ALOT.

My soundtrack = Reality TV once again.
I will rock out tomorrow and the rest of the week, though.

i'mnotin theMOOD.

2007-11-24T17:38:00.000-08:00

New total is a stunning 41,046 words.
So, today I wrote 1,966 words. Awesome.
I have 8,954 words to go before I'm done. That's actually going to be a little hard to stretch.
Today brings Chapter Ten to a total of 8,438 words.
So, '1667'-ers beware, I'm ahead by 1,038 words.

Yep, you guessed it, no soundtrack yet again. I've got to wait 'til dad goes back to work to jam.

This 'noveling' thing is the best.

it'snotasif NEWYORKCITY burnedtothe Ground.

2007-11-23T14:53:00.000-08:00

Okay, snagged a little. New total is 39,080 words.
That means that I wrote 2,005 words today.
Chapter Ten come to 6,472 words SOFAR. Cool, I like big fun chapters.
Especially since I'll have to write a war soon. Guh.
That leaves me 739 words ahead of the '1667'-ers, though. Which is good.

Soundtrack = a little tiny bit of Rilo Kiley, but not really much music at all.
I need to focus.

whatsitFeelLike tobea GHOST?

2007-11-22T17:04:00.000-08:00

Wowzers. The holiday from hell. But, new word count is 37,075.
That means I wrote 380 words today.
But, I'm still ahead of the '1667' crowd by 401 words. Stunning.
Chapter Ten stands at 4,467 words. Really? Cool.

No fucking soundtrack. Stupid fucking holiday.
Stupid ass motherfucking holiday bullshit.

BRIGHTday, BlueSky, SUNSHINE.

2007-11-21T16:47:00.000-08:00

Okay, my stunning new total is 36,618 words.
That's a 2,076 word improvement from yesterday.
Well, tomorrow is the dreaded day where I'll have very little time to write, and whatever time that I do have, I'll have to use to work on a school project.
But, today I did manage to get 1,611 words ahead of my '1667' competition, so I'll only have to write a few hundred words tomorrow to keep my head above water.

Today's music completely ignored everything I've downloaded.
Instead, I turned into a vampire and started sucking from purevolume.com, specifically a wonderful guy who goes by 'Backseat Goodbye'. Check him out. Or, like, die.

Yep, I'm good at this.
And, I still love my novel.

indieSUX, HARDLINEsux, EmoSux, YOUSUCK!

2007-11-20T15:41:00.000-08:00

Wowzers. Spirit healing. This is going good and smooth again.
My new total is a stunning 34,456 words.
My daily total is an equally stunning 1,990 words, which is all Chapter Ten.
Leaving me 1,116 words ahead of all you '1667'-ers.
Yeah, I'm aware that I'm made of win.

Today's music :: 'Their System Doesn't Work For You' - Anti-Flag ;; and half of 'Happiness Ltd.' - Hot Hot Heat ..

I am enjoying this.

babyjust LETmeIN.

2007-11-19T14:31:00.001-08:00

5Okay, so Chapter Nine, is actually FINISHED. And, it only took what, 8,665 words.
And, I'll leave my total for today at 32,466 words. Yeah, not even a thousand, but I'm ahead and I've had my spirits broken, damnit.
But, it does bring my daily total to a nice, round 400 words.
Pretty bad, but I AM ahead, and it IS something.

No soundtrack again, even though I do have pretty new music. Again, broken spirits.

I'm still 793 words ahead. Broken spirits.

thisisthe END, foryouMyFriend.

2007-11-18T15:07:00.000-08:00

Okay, my new total is 32,066 words. Crazy, right?
Which means that today I wrote 1,514 words.
And, the reallymassiveNOTOVERYET Chapter Nine is 8,422 words SOFAR.
And, if you're braving '1667' a day, I'm ahead by, oh, 2,060 words, so you have no hope.

No soundtrack again today. Stupid America's Next Top Model. Plus with the self-wordwars, music is actually distracting a little bit. But, I downloaded some for this week, becuase now that I'm ahead, I'll go without the wordwars.

Wow, I'm fabulous.

coffee SHOP soundtrack.

2007-11-17T16:20:00.000-08:00

Okay, I went for 30k tonight. So, my real final count is 30,552 words.
Which means I just wrote 1,216 words in 57 minutes.
Which brings the massive, STILLNOTOVER, Chapter Nine to a total of 6,908 words.
I swear there's still another 1 or 2k left in it, too.
Okay now my official writing total for the day is 3,252 words.
I wrote that much in one day? Really? Okay, let's go with that.
So, if you're '1667'-ing it, I'm ahead by 2,213, you have no hope.

i don'twannasay GOODNIGHT, to Records ILOVE.

2007-11-17T13:31:00.000-08:00

The kid is back. New count is 29,336 words.
Obviously I'm going to kick my Weekend Three goal of 30k out of the water.
But, wowzers, this chapter is like never-ending, not that I'm complaining 'cause all words are good words, and it's a fun chapter.
By never-ending, I mean that SOFAR it's 5,692 words, and there's got to be at least 1k left in it.
Today I wrote 2,036 words, and wow.
I've been doing the self-wordwars, and that's like the best thing ever.

Today's music was half of Rilo Kiley's 'Under The Blacklight' album and half of The Rocket Summer's 'Do You Feel' album. Go check 'em out. 28339

And, if you're going '1667' a day, I'm beating you into the ground by 997 words.
Now that's more like it.

such an innocent LETTER.

2007-11-16T15:40:00.000-08:00

And my word count total is... 27,300 words!
Yeah, that means that today I wrote 1,813 words.
Which makes Chapter Nine so far total 3,656 words, and it's not near being done yet.
Yes, this is fabulous.
If you're going '1667' then I'm leading you by 628 words.

Yeah, you guessed it, I still haven't cut that bad pop (Ashley Tisdale) from my soundtrack, and yes, I did get mostly distracted by TV again.

youarethe EARTH beneath MyFeet, youaremy GRAVITY.

2007-11-15T14:49:00.000-08:00

Okay, this is so much better. Today marks the halfway point of the month, and my wordcount is now 25,487 words. Beat that.
So, that means that today I wrote 1,843 words. Which means that so far Chapter Nine is 1,843 words, and it's just barely a quarter finished.
And, if you're going at this whole thing by '1667' then I'm 482 words ahead of you.

Today's soundtrack was pretty fabulous. The Audition 'Controversy Loves Company' ;; My American Heart 'Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather' ;; and yes, a little bit of shitty pop music, but only a little.

wheniWilled OURLOVE to DIE.

2007-11-14T15:36:00.000-08:00

Okay, I suck, I didn't hit 25k. But, I did hit 23,644 words. Which is good too.
That means that today I wrote 1,240 whole words. That's disappointing.
Tomorrow I will hit 25k, I will, I will.
Chapter Eight is a total of 3,646 words. That's good.
It's not by best chapter, but I like what I managed to make it.

No music today, except a few Rilo Kiley tracks.
Nope, today I was mucho distracted by a Project Runway marathon.

If you're a '1667'-er, I'm only ahead of you by 306 words, you can still catch up.

this CITY wasthe BluePRINT for HELL.

2007-11-13T16:07:00.001-08:00

My new total word count is... 22,404! Aren't you proud of me?
So, today I wrote 2,068 words, and so far Chapter Eight is a total of 2,406 words.
If you're going '1667' words a day, then I'm 733 words ahead of you.

Today, I went back to the beginning, which feels like so long ago, for my day thirteen soundtrack, Rilo Kiley and Kanye West.

'til the ANGELS hung Around.

2007-11-12T14:50:00.000-08:00

So, 20,336 will be my total for today.
Chapter Seven comes to a sorry total of 1,189 words.
Chapter Eight is started and is currently 338 words.
Those were both written today.
If I don't write at least 2k tomorrow, no less, I'm going to get BEHIND.
And, I'm going to need to add maybe two chapters to my grand outline.

Today, shoot me, I listened to the Ashley Tisdale album 'Headstrong' for a laugh; then drowned it out with Rilo Kiley, and am finishing off with a healthy dose of Chiodos.

If you're doing '1667' then you're at 20,003 and I'm at 20,336. Kicking you only by 333 words.

sayingGoodbye, makes me feellikeSAYINGsorry.

2007-11-11T15:26:00.000-08:00

Okay, day eleven concludes, leaving me with a total of 18,759 words.
Damnit I wanted to be at 20k.
But, today I wrote an Interlude, and it's 1,138. That's disappointing. I'll do better this week.
I'm 422 words ahead of those doing the '1667' approach. That number always makes me feel better.

Today was another day mostly without music, but I did listen to the album 'Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather' by My American Heart, and a tiny little bit of Hawthorne Heights.

Tomorrow I'll be better.

thisis HOWwe'llDANCE when, whentheyTryTo TAKE US DOWN.

2007-11-10T12:45:00.000-08:00

Okay, so the finished chapter six is 3,375 words.
And, my whopping total is 17,621 words.
I'm 951 words above those on the '1667' approach.

No music today.
Sucks.
But, Franci's better, and I was talking to her.

i'm SICK of Dancin' Alone.

2007-11-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

Okay, my new total is 16,043 words, and I hope to hit 20k when Sunday's done, and be half-through by Tuesday or Wednesday.
So, so far Chapter Six is 1,797 words. And today I wrote 1,797 words.
And, I'm leading the '1667' group by, 1,040. No shit! Really?
Wow, now I'm over-confident. I'm now like 5x more cocky than I was five seconds ago.

Today's music was Rilo Kiley, a little Junior Varsity, and the Audition.
Listen.

Today was my slowest day.

CROSSmeOFFyour list.

2007-11-08T15:30:00.000-08:00

Okay, wow, now I'm way ahead of schedule. My total count is 14,246 words.
Today I wrote 1,904 words, which brings (the now finished) chapter five to a total of 3,752 words.
So, if you're doing the '1667' approach, I'm officially leading you by 910 words.
Yep, the kid is back, and I'm plently 'in love' with my novel that I think the two of us will grow a lot closer during this 'week two' thing.

Finally, I got around to listening to the album 'Running On Empty' by Jackson Browne, if you haven't fallen in love with him, then what the hell have you been listening to all these years?
Also, today was more re-listening to Hawthorne Heights, and a little bit of The Rocket Summer.

This was probably one of my favorite days so far in November.

areyou HavingTROUBLE in St. Louis?

2007-11-07T15:48:00.000-08:00

So, I'm finally back on my game. I'm now into chapter five, and I wrote 1,848 words of it today. My word count total is now 12,342.
Finally back to kicking ass, but my novel has me much too busy to be taking names, or showering.

Today's music was the album 'The Meaning In Makeup' by My American Heart. More re-listening to The Audition, and a little bit more of The Junior Varsity there towards the end.

Oh yeah, if you're doing the '1667' approach, I'm kicking your ass by 673 words.
Yeah, here comes my confidence returning.

soifTHISis TheEND, i hope it GoesAsPlanned.

2007-11-06T13:43:00.001-08:00

For everyone taking the '1667' aproach, I'm 492 words ahead of you, at a grand total of 10,494.
This is starting to trip me up a little, but I'm going to try to powerhouse tomorrow, I think I just slowed down when I hit a part with less action, but it's all good. Or it should be.

Today was devoted to 'Cinematographic' by The Junior Varsity, one of the year's best albums, as well as re-listening to 'Controversy Loves Company' by The Audition. Listen and learn.

Tomorrow, if my word count doesn't hit 12.5k, someone slap me, hard.
Today though, I hit 1,383.

it'sOBVIOUSthatyou're Dying, dying.

2007-11-05T15:54:00.000-08:00

I wanted to make the gap larger, so I succeeded in making the gap smaller.
If you're taking the '1667' approach, you'd have 8,335. I have 9,111. So, down to a mere difference of 776 words.
I wrote 1,455 today. Tomorrow I'll kick the ass of eleven thousand, even if I never leave the laptop.

Redbull, you taste like ass. Sorry, Redbull, I mean that in the best way possible.
Because, your ass-like taste, and what-the-fuck-electric color, you're the first energy to actually give me energy, instead of just depress me. Which is good.

Not as confident. But still kickin' it.
Uh-oh, trouble, a teacher wants to read it when it's done.

Music today was more from My American Heart, Kanye, and Rilo Kiley.

hold your OWN Jacket.

2007-11-04T11:21:00.000-08:00

So, I'm getting pretty good at this 'noveling' thing I think.
At least, I'm pretty good about kicking the asses of 'word count goals'.
Mostly trying to stay ahead of anyone doing the '1667' approach.
At the end of day four, they'd be at 6,668, I'm at 7,656. Yeah, I'm kicking their asses by 998 words. Deal with it.
Today I wrote 1,784. Pretty successful if I do say so myself.
Yep, I am getting dangerously arrogant about this. Uh-oh.

Music for today consisted of me rediscovering Hawthorne Heights - 'If Only You Were Lonely', more Kanye, and the new love of my life My American Heart - 'Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather'. Check out any of those that you haven't already. Let your life be changed.

she'sa SEVEN.

2007-11-03T15:45:00.000-07:00

Three cheers for a half-finished chapter three.
Today's total is, drum roll please, 5,872, and today I added 2,322 of that.

Hooray for new music. Today I fell in love with: The Rocket Summer, by way of 'The Early Years EP' ;; The Audition, by way of 'Controversy Loves Company'.
I have some new picks all ready for tomorrow.

I am so confident in this whole thing now.
I rock. My novel rocks.

iwasyour SILVERLining.

2007-11-02T17:04:00.000-07:00

So, 'The City By The Sea' is well under way. I've finished my first two introductory chapters, so now I can start the REAL action. I'm proud of myself.
I'm at 3,550. The first chapter is 2,080, and the second chapter is 1,470, I think.
May I repeat that I'm proud? I will anyway.
Today I had three cups of coffee, and now, even though I'm done writing for the day, I'm sipping at a most massive energy drink. So, I can't tell if my emotions are real or a product of this 'Taurine' stuff.

I've been listening to the albums 'Under The Blacklight' by Rilo Kiley, and 'Graduation' by Kanye West, and loving both of them. I need to find something else though, because writing for about two and a half hours straight I've gone through both of them twice, and as I learn the lyrics it gets more 'sing along' and less 'background music'.

Wowzers, this is time consuming, but it's hella fun, actually.
Stressful, a little, but hella fun.

thisisthelasttimethat IWILLholdYOUR hand.

2007-11-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

So, today was more successful than I thought it'd be.
That inner editor really is a pain, but it's surprisingly easier to chain him to some imaginary dungeon wall.
Finished my first chapter, a little shorter than I wished, but it'll all work out.

WORD COUNT: 2,080

sleptthroughtheWEEKEND.

2007-10-29T17:47:00.000-07:00

Yes. Now I have a plan of attack at least.
I've mapped out a chapter outline. Twelve chapters total, so about 4170-5000 words a chapter should do it.
I'll get discount Halloween candy and some other things this week or this weekend.
Here's hoping finding time to write will be easier than it's seeming.

-3 days 'til NaNoWriMo-

letme TELLyouWHY.

2007-10-25T13:45:00.000-07:00

So, I think I'll be done after those five writing prompts.
I finished the fanfiction, and now I think I'm plenty warmed up.
This Sunday I'll collect and keep my candy. Oh Halloween, how I love you for giving me free NaNo snacks.
The blankets that I'll use to keep me warm and in good spirits during NaNo are in line for the wash.
It's all counting down now.

-6 days until the NaNoWriMo kickoff. yayz.-

babygirl'saQUEEN.

2007-10-17T14:01:00.000-07:00

Prompt #144:
Drink. Cough. Repeat.
Continue until you don't remember the order. Until you forget to cough.

Isn't it sad that this is what we're all programmed to do from a young age. TV. Books. Movies. Hell, mostly music. Sometimes real people around us.

'Drowning your sorrows' is not a foreign concept to anyone.Mindlessly swallowing alcohol (killing yourself, sometimes slowly) had become a Great American Standard of Living.
You all dream of your twenty-first birthday. Or you think alcohol will make you an adult. Make you cool.

The only thing it'll make you is sick.
And dead, you can't forget dead.

So, screw you America, and your warped ideals, too.
I'd rather be alive than Patriotic.
(I'd rather go out in style.)

whydoyouhavetobeSODamnclever?

2007-10-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

prompt #175:
Ew. Cheese steak wrapper. Half-empty milkshake.
Ew. Used condem. 'Someone's sleeping with their secretary.'

The intruder upon this usually calm setting smirked. She was already composing a biography for, let's see. The office door just said 'A. V. - Accountant'. But, this reciept said, 'drumroll please', 'Aaron Valencia, how very typical you appear, Mr. Valencia'.

Oh well, back to the point of this operation. Had to hurry up before the janitor circled back around, didn't we?

'Ha, sorry Mr. Valencia, but I think I'll call you Mr. Vallium instead', the intruder had hit upon a stashed empty prescription bottle about half-way through their treasure expedition.

Ew. Another used condom, seriously? 'I'm going to have to search your desk for pictures, because you must be at least a little good looking, for an accountant.'
Bingo, unshredded records. 'All that bangin' the help must've distracted you. Lucky for me. Not so much for your ex-client Mr. Vallium.'
Identity. Stolen.

a SADDay for Aspiringartists.

2007-10-15T13:20:00.000-07:00

Oh, gorgeous fanfic, thank you for allowing me to write another scene of you, but could I beg to finish the last without interruption?

prompt #216:
They'll be coming for me soon. I suppose it's for the best now.

I'd rather not be left here. Here, where all I have for scenery is the abandoned homes of my fallen brothers and comrades to block my view of the horizon. Where all I have to think about, in solitude, is how cruelly said brothers and comrades were being dismembered.

How cruelly I would be dismembered.

I wonder what human 'use' I'll be put to. I won't be able to feel it, obviously. But, maybe I'll see from wherever I'm going, or maybe I'll just know.

The injustice strikes me oddly, though. We do so much to improve the quality of living for humans, and yet they kill us.

The once clean air around me is now smoggy and thick.
Depressing and lung-clogging.
I now know what I have to do.
I let it all out.
I won't let them get me.

letme LIGHTUP the Sky.

2007-10-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

Damn, I seriously have to finish that fanfiction. It IS for a contest, and I DO have a deadline.
Thankfully, I'm becoming a little more comfortable with this 'Write Every Day' thing.

prompt #137:
She stood a foot and a half away from the stage, seperated by the metal barricade and a meathead bouncer.

She stood a foor and a half away (and a foot below) her heroes. The guys who sang their sorrow to her as she cried out her own. Who sang her to sleep. Who healed her wounds.

She stood a foot below and five feet away from the speaker that delivered their notes, their words to her ears. She loved that speaker.

The multitude of the crowd was behind her. The meathead bouncer was soon overtaken with the responsibility of catching the crowdsurfing idiots.

Behind her, the noise escalated. The guitarist and the vocalist, male and male, had just leaned in for their usual faux-kiss that would be all over the internet as soon as the concert had ceased.

She wished it would never end. Three hours wasn't enough. She looked around frantically. There wasn't a single thing she wanted to forget. (Not even the amount of stubble on the meathead bouncer.)

She hadn't realised that she'd cried through the more emotionally affecting songs until she wiped the 'sweat' off her face at the end. This was, obviously, why the meathead bouncer was looking at her like that. This was, obviously, why the meathead bouncer offered to escort her (and her father, who had now left his seat to come find her) to meet the band.

She realised that, even if she forgot half of this, it wouldn't matter. This was, by far, and would always be, the greatest night of anyone's life.

And she got to keep it.

our SACREMENT ofsalmon and IrishBeer.

2007-10-13T13:22:00.000-07:00

So, I stumbled upon http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ , and decided that I'd use it to pick and choose a daily writing prompt to sharpen me up before NaNo. Which reminds me that there's a fanfiction I need to finish, oh well.
Also, I've found myself doing online typing tests, both to up my WPM, and also to try that 'ditch the inner-editor' thing.

prompt #124:
Roy wasn't even aware that he was pacing. He was barely aware of the slight anger bubbling in the pit
of his stomach. Stupid teenagers, he thought, can't follow the most basic direction.

"Hurry up, Jack. Where the hell are you?" Roy's mumbling drew almost no attention from the
surrounding crowd, as most of them were muttering worriedly as well. "When I said three o'clock sharp
I meant it Jack!"

Stupid Evenlyn, no, not stupid. Roy mentally berated himself for even started to refer to anything
about his now two-month-deceased wife. Although, it had been her idea to allow their fifteen-year-old
son Jack to run off to some music program half-way around the world for the whole summer. Well, not
the whole summer, since the program sent Jack home for three days to attend his mother's funeral, but
then requested his presence back, and left his father to grieve alone.

"Excuse me," the voice over the loudspeaker, was, for once, that of a live human, "there's some rather
urgent news I have to relay regarding Flight 348 from Chicago." Roy barely registered that that was
Jack's flight. "The plane crashed down in Ohio." It was audible that the woman lending her voice was
choking back tears, however, Roy was failing miserably at the same task.

"There was only one survivor, a teenaged boy they've identified as J--," it was a miracle that Roy had
survived holding his breath this long, "--ack Davids. We're sorry for your losses."

In the course of one summer, Roy Daniels had lost everything that he loved.

you little SPIES.

2007-10-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

So, it's now mid-October. One of the things on one of my to-do lists is being accomplished as I type.
The list demanded that I establish a blog to use for venting, squee-ing, and angst-ing during my first ever attempt at the insanity of NaNoWriMo. Which, essentially, is the Mount Everest for writers.
Thankfully, my plot is visciously secure, and came early, fell into place, and shouted its title in my ear repeatedly.
'The City By The Sea' will be a hybrid between a romance novel and the tale of a civilization's rise and fall. So, it's safe to say that I'm excited.

Two weeks && six days before the commencement of NaNoWriMo.
--Lyze