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10 Sunday Mar 2013

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It’s almost April…and that means, you guessed it, Camp NaNoWriMo!!!

No need to wait for November!

I am especially excited since I had to skip all the festivities last year, since I was kinda busy having a baby and all. I really really hope I can get some writing done. I might have something resembling a shred of a plan, but we will see. I may change my mind on what I wanna write a million times before then.

Stuck…

15 Friday Jan 2010

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I’m suffering from a bad case of writer’s block again, and have written only about 3/4 of a chapter in the last week. Part of the reason this is going so slow I believe is the fact that I never have had a plan for where Sorrow’s Moon is going as far as plot, let alone ever had one in mind for how it would end.

There are as always infinite possibilities when it comes to an ending on any story. I do not think that a Pollyanna, happily ever after type ending will suit the story, but neither do I want to leave the characters any worse off or messed up in the head than they already are. I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a cast of characters with so many issues as this bunch started off this novel with. It hasn’t been the easiest story to get out of my head at all.

Maybe its best if I leave this one sit for now at the end of chapter 27, and leave Eric and Devin to live their own lives in my mind for awhile, before I try to peek back in on them after awhile. I know I should probably be writing something else while I am waiting for that to happen, so I’m open to suggestions. Yes I know this leaves three novels floating in various stages of completion. Three completed, three still floating, hopefully someday my batting average will improve I hope.

Another windy December

09 Wednesday Dec 2009

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It seems it gets dark earlier each day lately, and the wind is howling outside the window. I haven’t bothered to put up a Christmas tree yet, I guess I just don’t see much point in doing so. I’ve spent the last week or so trying to get a working computer again, and thanks to a good friend, and a little help from above I have one again.

I’m for the moment a little stuck on how to end Sorrow’s Moon, its kinda hard getting back in the writing frame of mind with everything else that has been going on. It hasn’t exactly been the easiest book to write so far, and I know I’ve skimmed over parts that should have had a lot more time and detail involved, but NaNoWriMo is more about writing for speed than perfection. Perfection comes when its finished I guess. This dyslexic child needs an editor. (sadly I can’t afford one)

It’s back to work finishing this story for me I hope, as soon as my fingers warm up and I can thaw out the plot bunnies that have to be hiding half frozen to death from this cold weather in there somewhere…

Summers almost over

13 Wednesday Aug 2008

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As usual, things fall all to pieces around here during the summer, and this year was no exception. Summer does nothing for my chronic level of procrastination and lack of motivation in getting anything done. Whit will be going back to school in about a week, and it’s left me wondering, just what am I going to do with myself again? School may last for only 6 hours out of every day, and some people think I should be able to accomplish a lot within that time, but if I know me, I’ll probably take the first week or so just to vegitate and catch up on some much needed sleep.

Yes there are a hundred things I should be doing, and probably a lot more that I could be doing. Money being tight eliminates a lot of the possibilities, including returning to school. I think of going back to work on the novel, and just end up staring at a blank screen for hours on end. Maybe it’s just the stress of all that’s happened the last few months, and all the things I don’t talk about here, simply because i don’t know who all really is reading this.

It was nice for part of the summer to hide under a pen name, and not be me for awhile, I got to relax a little and just have fun posting some weird random stuff. Can’t believe I have let my blog go so badly. I miss the old days before I lost my website, or even when I had it back at bravejournal. I used to be so excited about my next post, now I don’t know what is wrong with me.

I’ve got a couple of things to look forward to over the next couple of weeks at least. There is the Nightwish /Sonata Arctica concert coming up on the 4th of next month, doubled with the coolness that my friend Kat is coming clear out from Utah to go with me, and several other friends are going to be meeting us at the show. Even better news is that it is an all ages venue, and my daughter can go with us this year. Hopefully I can borrow a better camera from Jim and get some really awesome pictures this time, instead of the blurry ones I got trying to shoot around people’s heads the last time. It was so wonderful to meet the members of the band Nighwish afterwards and get to talk to them awhile, they are such wonderful people and we are very much looking forward to seeing them all again.

NaNoWriMo 2007 Spoiler

29 Monday Oct 2007

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Ok, for those of you wanting to know, my NaNoWriMo novel for 2007 will be the sequel to my 2006 novel “Finding Heaven.” The temporary working title for this novel is “Sins Of Eden.” I’m still in the process of planning a good deal of the plot, but figured last years project left enough loose ends that there is still yet some story to tell with these characters, who I still find quite fascinating.

How will Micah adjust to family life after all this time? How will they all cope with picking up the pieces after losing so much dear to them? Most importantly, how long can one small town keep the events of that dark night a secret from the outside world? Only time will tell…please stay tuned. Prayers and good thoughts are appreciated.

What are you doing this November?

23 Tuesday Oct 2007

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Tick tock, tick tock, only 9 days to go…

Greetings From Novel-Land

10 Saturday Feb 2007

Posted by Aurora in Boredom, Creative Writing, Escape From Reality, My Writing, Random Thoughts, Rants, Technical Difficulties

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A few of my friends have wondered why I am posting here instead of the nice custom blog that is on my website. The answer is simple, I am still in the process of finishing the novel, now that I am back online and on a new computer. I am posting the rough draft of the novel, chapter by chapter to my blog as a means of backing it up. For the sake of keeping everything choronological, I have been making my random daily posts here instead of there.

Chapter 33 is presently in the works, and its been difficult getting back into the swing of writing again after not being able to for the last month or so. I knew the hard drive was going to go, it was just a matter of when, and thankfully, due to my backups, I only lost the majority of one chapter in the process. Now I am back, on a brand new computer, and there do not seem to be any issues to worry about for the forseeable future. (it’s back to work for me!) This novel needs to be done by the end of the month. Someone, light a fire under my hiney please, I am going to need it.

Random List Writing Exercise

05 Friday Jan 2007

Posted by Aurora in Creative Writing, Escape From Reality, My Writing

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Random Plot Generated List:

mountains
a seamstress
fan
burnt bridges
a needlework pillow
fly

 

It had been years since I’d set foot in the town I grew up in, even though the town looked frozen in time as my truck drove up the only paved road passing through the mountains. Life here looked just as I remembered it as a young girl, as I soon turned up a long gravel road, that seemed more suitable to a goat path than traffic. I’d burnt my bridges with this town and everyone in it a long time ago. I swore I would never come back, and until the phone call had come three days ago, I had meant every word I said.

The house I grew up in was not much more than a rundown three room shack. Even in this modern age, until we entered school, my sister and I knew nothing of running water or indoor bathrooms. The bedrooms had no heat, the only warmth in the house the old-fashioned wood burning stove my mother cooked on every day, as had my grandmother and great-grandmother before her. Thick wooden storm shutters covered the windows in the winter, and spring through autumn the windows were always open. I would often awaken to the feeling of a few drops of cool rain being blown in by the wind, or a fly buzzing nozily at my ear.

My dad was gone long before I could begin to remember him, and my mom worked as a seamstress at a dress shop in the town at the bottom of the mountain. Five, and sometimes six days a week, she walked the road to and from work, come rain or shine. When she had the extra money for supplies, she would sew the occasional quilt, needlework pillow, or ragdoll to sell at the farmer’s market that was held in town every other weekend. The patchwork patterns of the quilts were often made from the remains of homemade clothes that my sister and I had outgrown. To this day, I remember those homemade clothes as a source of shame. My sister and I were teased, by the other children at school, whose families could afford store bought clothes. It took me until I was grown and on my own to realize that mom was just doing the best she could, with what little she really had to give us.

I took a deep breath as I parked the truck in front of the old shack, and stepped out, crossing the lawn onto the creaking wooden porch. The door opened with its old familiar groan as I stepped inside, stopping to fan away a few cobwebs that had gathered in the doorway. There wasn’t much left to cart away now, only a small boxfull of can goods, flour and beans in the cupboard, that could be left to give away to the poor at the local church, and a couple of mom’s old threadbare dresses that could go there with them. The rest would be left behind when the house would be put up for auction in a few weeks.

Not a whisper could be heard as I loaded up the boxes in the back of the truck, stopping to take one last look around. The weeds had grown taller than ever, house now nearly hidden under the vines that had all but taken over the porch rail, climbing it like a trellis. The windows were now stangely dark and empty as I closed the storm shutters before climbing back into the truck. I hadn’t expected to feel so sad about saying goodbye to this place. On the ride back down the road into town, more than once I had to fight back tears. Until I’d come back, this place had seemed more a dream than a memory, now it was all too real again. I didn’t begin to feel better until long after I had passed the county line, familiar landmarks fading behind me. You can always go home, but even if you wanted to, you can never go back.

 

I’m Stuffed, Time To Blog…

27 Wednesday Dec 2006

Posted by Aurora in Boredom, Creative Writing, Escape From Reality, My Writing, Random Thoughts

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     What is it about a full stomach that induces catatonia? I no sooner get full than all I want to do is sit back, vegitate and possibly nap the afternoon or evening away.

     I’m still working on the novel, as the computer issues I have been having have been allowing. I am now not only posting the chapters to my regular blog, but also e-mailing them to myself as a backup to my backup. Losing all that hard work would definitely not be any fun if this all goes kaput somehow, which I am hoping and praying it doesn’t.

     Chapter 31 does have me completely stumped at the present time, not to mention the fact that this novel doesn’t quite have a planned ending yet. It does seem odd even to me, most times I would know the ending before even beginning the story but not this time. Makes it difficult to get from point A to point B wthout knowing what the heck point B even is.

     I do know what part of the middle will be like. Micah, Heaven, Roman, Jonas and Ginny will be digging in for the fight in Eden Hollow. Heaven will give birth to the baby after much difficulty during a violent thunderstorm in mid July. Beyond that it’s hard to tell what is going to happen, guess I haven’t given much thought to the fisheads and her father, which I will have to start doing before the next several chapters can be written. Worst part about writing…if you don’t know…no one else does either.

Micah-Type Plotting

12 Tuesday Dec 2006

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     Planning out chapters seemed so simple at first, but here I sit at the beginning of chapter 31 of the novel and I’m stuck. The next chapter will deal with 2 characters that I have never had to deal with as a combination up until now, Roman and Jonas. The irony here falls in the fact that the two characters are absolutely nothing alike, or have anything in common.

     How does one prepare to write a chapter that will take place on the road possibly across a handful of state over a three day period? I know I should probably take into account looking over a road atlas, and possibly looking up info on a handful of towns that may fall along the route they would most likely take. One way or another this chapter is most definintely going to be a challenge. The most difficult thing of all may be keeping the forward momentum to get this damn book finished.

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