Exciting stuff, amiright?
Anyway, I just wanted to take some time to talk about my most recent obsession - writing.
This past November, I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) where authors are challenged to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days - and I did it :)
The book I wrote is called Ravensboro, and it's a Young Adult Fantasy book. If you're interested in YA books, Fantasy books, or just my writing in general, let me know if you'd like access to my super-secret book blog :) Sequel is pending.
There are two other books I've been working on for quite some time now, and these are open to be perused by the public:
- Camp Tandy - this is a fictionalized account of the summer I worked as a counselor at Camp Gilead in 2007. Names and circumstances have been changed to protect certain identities ;)
- The ITDS - this was a super-ambitious Sci-Fi story that I started awhile back. I didn't plan out the plot or anything before I started writing it, and I'm afraid I wrote myself into a corner, so I don't plan on adding anything to it anytime soon.
And here are three books I have an idea for that I haven't started writing yet:
- Kissing the Waves - basically, this is a Christian Fiction book about five women who are friends and how their Faiths are tested by miscarriage, marriage problems, and men problems.
- Untitled - I haven't named this book yet, but I got an idea from hanging out with my niece, Bella, and discussing which Disney princesses are best. This story has to do with a young girl who is sucked into a world where fairytale villains are imprisoning princesses. The young girl has to rescue the princesses, and in doing so, restore her faith in all things fairytale.
- Nearly Dead Naomi - Honestly, I just got the idea for this book JUST THIS MORNING. It's about a girl named Naomi who escapes death and lives her life as half-human, half-ghost, trying to stay off Death's radar and have a normal social life at the same time.
So, do any of these stories strike your fancy? Or are you more of a non-fiction type reader? Because lemme tell you, I'm not much of a non-fiction type writer, so my stuff might not be for your eyes. The more encouragement I get for one particular story, the more apt I am to focus on writing that story, so FEEDBACK people! :)
Well, first of all, YAYY for a new blog post!
ReplyDeleteSecond of all, Nearly Dead Naomi sounds hilarious and immediately reminds me of the movie Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. I like the concept, but I have questions. The first being: would it be like Just Like Heaven where only certain people can see her because her physical body is off in a coma somewhere or does she still have her body so everybody just thinks she's normal but she knows she's not? Is Death an actual character who's coming to get her? How does all that work?
My vote is for you to keep working on the sequel to Ravensboro because I looooveeeee itttt! =)
Now I'm off to read your update on the Camp Tandy blog. You da best! and your writing is bomb.
Thank you for being my only faithful reader! I mean it when I say I wouldn't be a writer if it wasn't for your constant encouragement! I feel like I have all these good ideas for books and then I go to write them and words just get thrown up on the pages and it's total vom-fest. And when I try to be a hip and funny writer I just sound stupid :'(
DeleteNo you don't. Now get over yourself and get to WRITING! =) =) =)
DeleteTough love. It's half the encouragement. ;)
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