I wrote over fifty
thousand words in November & on the first of December I deleted
about seven thousand of them & proceeded to rewrite them from
scratch. I'm currently bumped back up, wordcount-wise (the whole
thing will be somewhere between sixty & seventy thousand words),
& coming in on the last section of the story, which is quite
intense & a pretty exciting situation to be in - seeing this
story I started just over a month ago come full circle, teasing out
conclusions, letting my characters get as dramatic as they want to be
because it's almost the end & endings are always dramatic.
The story is called The
Accident Season & it's
a young adult contemporary book imbued with enough magic realism to
sink an airship & it has absolutely nothing to do with vampires,
werewolves or any kind of remotely supernatural teen (okay, maybe
there's a mention of ghosts & a tiny smidgeon of
story-within-a-story fairies, but shush, that totally doesn't count)
because I figure that as I spend every other waking moment thinking &
reading & writing about vampires, it'd be nice to get a break
every once in a while.
And it has been nice.
It's been very nice. I'm happier with this than I have been with
anything I've written for a long time (& I'm generally quite
happy with what I write). Mostly, I've been having a lot of fun with
it, which is sort of what writing's all about.
So although I'm sorry
for neglecting this pretty little blog (seriously, look at that
floral wallpaper, it's beautiful), I'm very glad I'm nearly finished
the first draft of this pretty little book because I think it already
has a lot of potential. I'll stop neglecting this place very soon. In
fact I've kind of started now, haven't I? Because I have lots of
things I want to write about, books I've read I'd like to review &
Serious Academic Notes on Breaking Dawn that I'd like to share with
those of you lucky enough not to be forced to sit through it because
you're writing a thesis on teenage vampires. ("Why oh why???"
is the lament of the moment, multiple exclamation marks & all.)
What about you guys,
did you do NaNoWriMo this year? Any other year? (It's my third, I
think, non-consecutive.) What did you write? How did you find it?
What are you going to do with your stories now?
