NaNoWriMo

First of all, I suck at updating this blog, but truth be told, I haven't been all active at all to be honest. I've been too busy working and drinking and doing things I probably shouldn't.

November, however, will be a different story. November equals NaNoWriMo, which is something I've done every year since I found out about it. This will be my third year, and this year I will win (I totally failed last year due to too much school and too much personal life). There's not much going on on work, and if it is, I'll find the time. I'm loaded, I have the story (I think) and now I'll have the discipline to do it.

It will also be more frequent updates, since it's a part of the writing experience and that's what this blog is for. Yay?

If you don't know what it is, just click the picture and it'll direct you to their homepage!

Ownership

Ownership is the fan fiction/novel I'm currently working on, while I wait for NaNoWriMo to start. This is one of my favourite stories my head's ever told me, just because it's so different. It's more or less one of my many babies. Let me tell you about her.

Ownership is, as mentioned, an old fan fiction of mine. I wrote it after my friend Bella (who is also my only reader of this piece, so far), had written a similar story but never got around to finish it, and didn't post it on the McFly boards, which was my hangaround for a long time. So I started working on this, but sadly, I didn't finish it either. The boards got wiped, I lost interest and then just kind of put it in the back of my head for Future Kim to deal with. It was always still there though, and when I was finished with the first draft of Issues, I needed something to do to occupy my graduated arse, so I decided to try and make this into a full lenght novel with characters that wasn't based on a British pop/rock band (although Dougie got to keep his name, just because I didn't find any other name that I liked that suited him, and Jones is also a name I kept).

So far I've written eight chapters, all of which Bella has read through. After eight chapter (it took forever to actually get the eight chapter done, because it required some heave story telling and background search that I hadn't done before), I just kind of stopped for a while. Having gotten back Issues, and somehow ending up on the boards again and writing there, it felt like I didn't have time for it, but today I got it all back. Or some of it anyway. I'm right now sitting and writing the intro for chapter nine, and at the same time trying to come up with all my characters for my NaNoWriMo project.

That's all!
/Kim

Synopsis and query letter

I don't know why I've put this off for so long, I've known about it for about two months, and been so excited over it, but I've just never gotten the chance to actually start writing it. I'm not sure if it's because I'm too unfocused and too lazy, or if it's because I'm afraid. Afraid of rejection, and afraid of approval. This query letter have to be perfect, and the synopsis have to be even more perfect, because it's my future that's on stake. Everyone says that all it takes is one yes, and that's true, but that first no is just scaring me shitless.

But I have now!

Today after work I decided that it was time. I wrote it, edited it and wrote it again, and now I've sent it to Penguin. My fate is in their hands now.

Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best, shall we?

/Kim

Editing day

My friend Alex made me this cover. Ain't it cute? :)

I am far too lazy for my own good. If I'm not inspired enough to do something, I just don't do it. Some call it a curse, I call it saving my time, although it's not like I do anything else either. Mostly I just bum around and watch telly, or hang around on Facebook like all the cool kids.

But today I decided that it was time to kick myself in the butt and actually do something about the situation. It's a little less than a month left until Penguin stop taking open query letters, and I still have to perfect my synopsis and my personal letter to them. I'm not usually a big perfectionist when it comes to things, but this is my future and my dream so it has to be absolutely flawless, then rejection won't sting as much cause then at least I'll know that I did my best with this one.

So today, except for helping my brother to get Spotify on his computer, I'll start editing the book for the third time. It's the third draft (feels a bit weird to say it like that...third draft) and this time I'll change things that's not supposed to be in the story anymore, and I'll change one of my characters way of talking, since I want him to sound more cockney.

Ah well, here goes. Wish me luck!

/Kim