Another 1,212 words today! (All on my lunch break!)
NaNoWriMo has begun!!
Here we go – day one of the National Novel Writing Month. The goal? 50,000 word novel in one month. I have started another World War Two historical romance, with a different take than In Dawn’s Shadows. This story takes place in a small town in America during 1941, whereas my other WIP involves the European theatre before the U.S. ever entered the war. You need to do about 1,700 a day to hit the 50,000 mark. Today I hit more than 3,000 – I plan to do as much as I can, knowing that there will be days I miss my daily word count. So, only 47,000 more words...
November plans
Some of you may know, November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel from November 1 to 30. That means 2,500 words or so a day. Whether it’s a good idea or not, I have signed up and plan to forge ahead. For the month of November, I may have to teach the husband to do laundry! Yes, I still have edits to do on In Dawn’s Shadows, and I have the second book to prep for my critique group. But hey, why not add one more thing? I want to have another project to pitch at next year’s writer’s conferences, and I...
Book Review: Catching Fire
I indulged this weekend. Rather, I was trapped by this book. Somehow my hands were chained to the hardcover binding and flipping pages madly. I simply couldn’t put it down. So I ignored all other life around me and barricaded myself in my office to read Suzanne Collin’s gripping sequel to The Hunger Games (see my previous post). If The Hunger Games was one of the best books I’ve ever read, I’m not sure how to classify Catching Fire. It surpassed the high standard set by its predecessor, digging deeper into the characters and setting. In this book, nothing is exactly how it seems, and you are left breathlessly waiting...
Book Review: The Hunger Games
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in...