NaNoWriMo Is Fast Approaching!

NaNoWriMo is coming up quickly! So is my baby's due date! With so much going on I'm trying to keep my "baby brain" from keeping me back from doing everything I need to do. I have a short to-do list but the thing that's been weighing on my mind has been what I'm going to write for the month of November.

For the past few NaNo events I've been working on trying to finish other projects. That's been fine but I've been worried that maybe I'm spending too much time with them, you know? Fortunately I've had a couple of projects that I haven't written much on beyond a synopsis and yet another idea that's been rattling around in my head but hasn't quite seemed right. The pieces for the last idea have fallen into place and, barring any weird happenings, I'm thinking that a fresh project will take me through to the finish line. Here's the little blurb and the cover I made up for the NaNo website...maybe a banner will follow...


"An Embarrassment of Magic" by C. E. Daniel

When a well dressed noble crashes into her garden Senna is annoyed. When shadow hounds try to enter as well, it's outside of enough. Saving a noble doesn't interest her and his idea of gratitude irritates her more. What can a single woman do though when she finds out that this nobleman isn't your average pompous idiot?

Cover photo: Witches Dwell by wyldraven on Deviantart.com

I'm not sure where it will go yet beyond the opening and the two main characters but I'm working on it! the next thing will be to come up with a few more characters and some "candy bar" scenes. I'm not sure what will happen. Maybe this idea will stick or not but we'll see!

A Fickle Heart

So after some major indecision on my part concerning my NaNo project I have actually come to a conclusion. I hate leaving things unfinished so I have decided to do a rewrite of my NaNo novel from last year since I lost a solid half of my word count during the move. Half gone and I think that I actually lost more than that since I had over 50k. So to inspire me I have created a cover and banner. I will be backing up and emailing copies to myself hourly!

I've added a new plot twist to it and so I'm hoping that I won't get bored or something during NaNo. I guess we'll just wait and see! NaNo starts tomorrow and I can't wait!

Stock Image by: MD-Arts
Cover and Banner Design by: Me!

Covers and Banners

I've fully committed myself to my NaNo project! (I've probably just jinxed myself into losing all interest and changing stories at midnight on October 31st but hey...)

There are so many talented artists on the Artisan boards on the NaNoWriMo website but I decided that I was going to make my own cover and banner this year. I've done it before but this year I definitely think that this year's is a huge improvement. You can see the change on the Past Projects page. I used some stock photos and a handy browser photo editor called PicMonkey. I'm very pleased with how they came out. What do you think?

Something New and Shiny!

I was on the NaNoWriMo forums yesterday and I thought it would be cool to have a banner and cover made up by one of the local artisans! I'm trying to put the banner on this site but I'll post the cover here. Tell me what you think? I'm a fan but then it's the first time I've ever had a cover done before!

In other news: THERE'S ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT! *ahem* For those of you who don't quite know what I'm freaking out about, I'm talking about the yearly National Novel Writing Month. People all over the world get together on this website to make their lives totally insane for the month of November and hopefully wind up with a fifty thousand word novel at the end of it. If you've ever want to write a novel or even though about it vaguely than you should check it out. This is my third year participating and I am going to finish this year if it kills me! It starts on the fist of November so look quick!

UPDATE 11/7/2010: So I had this wonderful story idea and I was all gung-ho about it and even got one of the talented artists who haunt the NaNoWriMo forums to make up the spiffy cover above. About twenty four hours later I realized that it was a fabulous idea but I had no clue who would populate this novel or what kind of people they were. I also realized that I had no goal for the novel. This left me in a bad place indeed. So at the last possible moment I decided to use an idea that had floating around in my catch-all notebook that had a goal and I had a vague note about the two main characters.I have made a temporary banner below and maybe after NaNoWriMo is done I will make something spiffy for a cover in Corel Paint. As of right now I am not regretting my decision since I have been able to keep up, and exceed in some cases, the daily word count quota. All of which puts me in a great place for the expected mid-month slump and the craziness that comes with Thanksgiving!