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Update 6/3/09: I finally started editing Tears for the Silent Lands!!! Well, it's not quite the actual chopping yet, but I'm going through the whole thing and making notes in a separate notebook about the plot and what needs to change. Sounds easy, right? It isn't. I've been doing it two days, and I've only gone through four pages. This whole editing thing is going to take a LOT longer than expected - but hey, once it's done, but novel will be all nice and shiny! *hugs Tears, even though it's being such a pickle*
I am notorious for having more than one project going at a time. So, here you can get a general idea of what I'm working on, how long it is, blah blah blah. Right now, I am mostly working on a new novel called....
Enchantress
This is the story of Everlyse, a teenage girl who has been given power by God in our modern time, in order to fight against the growing power of the Dark Magicians. Following the death of her trainer and her fellow good magicians, Everlyse teams up with Andrew, a wandering magician who's not sure which side he's on, for mutual self-preservation - and she discovers what it is she's really fighting for.
Ah, bad summary. Anyways, this story is 44,143 words long at the moment, and many who have read it have claimed that it is my best work so far. I don't know - we'll see. Anyways, I'm taking a break from it at the moment so I can get a clearer spiritual direction on this, and so that I will be able to see clearly as I try to remove some evil things that had begun to creep into it without my knowing.
Also, I am soon to start editing my NaNo 08 novel....
Tears for the Silent Lands:
So, even though I wasn't a member of SARI during NaNo, I haven't quite finished my NaNo yet, so I'm going to post progress updates here! (And a huge celebration once it's completed!)
The title of my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel is Tears for the Silent Lands.
As a short summary, it's about an elf maiden - Mirriae, by name - who, after a long absence from the elvish city, returns to find that all the other elves have vanished without a trace.
At the end of NaNo, Tears was about 68,000 words long.
While I was planning for NaNoWriMo, I used a fun type of outline called a phase outline. Basically, for every scene in the novel, you write a few phrases that come to mind. They could be lines of dialogue, description of scenery, or any other fragment of thought that will jog your memory when it comes time to write the scene. My phase outline turned out to be about 10,000 words long all by itself, with 127 individual points!
Here's the table to keep track of my progress:
Update 3/7/09 -- Ok, so I am officially alive! Sorry I haven't been around! I've been busy in other areas, such as trying to finish Tears. I'm really close!!
Update 2/15/09 - I realized that there was something during the climax that I should have done but neglected to do, and that's the thing that's been drawing out the ending and making it a pain to write. I had to get rid of the last 15,000 words that I wrote, but it's better than having to keep struggling with an ending that doesn't fit. Hopefully the writing should go quicker now that I've had time to think about what I want this ending to look like, and know what I'm supposed to be aiming for. Please pray for me, because this is sort of a big blow and is very depressing.
I am notorious for having more than one project going at a time. So, here you can get a general idea of what I'm working on, how long it is, blah blah blah. Right now, I am mostly working on a new novel called....
Enchantress
This is the story of Everlyse, a teenage girl who has been given power by God in our modern time, in order to fight against the growing power of the Dark Magicians. Following the death of her trainer and her fellow good magicians, Everlyse teams up with Andrew, a wandering magician who's not sure which side he's on, for mutual self-preservation - and she discovers what it is she's really fighting for.
Ah, bad summary. Anyways, this story is 44,143 words long at the moment, and many who have read it have claimed that it is my best work so far. I don't know - we'll see. Anyways, I'm taking a break from it at the moment so I can get a clearer spiritual direction on this, and so that I will be able to see clearly as I try to remove some evil things that had begun to creep into it without my knowing.
Also, I am soon to start editing my NaNo 08 novel....
Tears for the Silent Lands:
So, even though I wasn't a member of SARI during NaNo, I haven't quite finished my NaNo yet, so I'm going to post progress updates here! (And a huge celebration once it's completed!)
The title of my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel is Tears for the Silent Lands.
As a short summary, it's about an elf maiden - Mirriae, by name - who, after a long absence from the elvish city, returns to find that all the other elves have vanished without a trace.
At the end of NaNo, Tears was about 68,000 words long.
While I was planning for NaNoWriMo, I used a fun type of outline called a phase outline. Basically, for every scene in the novel, you write a few phrases that come to mind. They could be lines of dialogue, description of scenery, or any other fragment of thought that will jog your memory when it comes time to write the scene. My phase outline turned out to be about 10,000 words long all by itself, with 127 individual points!
Here's the table to keep track of my progress:
| Date | Word Count | Outline point | Pages | Note |
| 1/15/09 | 87,000 words | #100 | ||
| 2/3/09 | 100,214 words | #112 | ||
| 2/11/09 | 110,000 words | #118 | 183 pages | |
| 2/15/09 | 98,442 | ? | 160 pages | I'm going to rewrite the end, so I deleted the last 15k. |
| 3/7/09 | 115,407 words | #120 | 185 pages | |
| 3/8/09 | 118,576 words | 190 pages | Finished!!!!! |
Update 3/7/09 -- Ok, so I am officially alive! Sorry I haven't been around! I've been busy in other areas, such as trying to finish Tears. I'm really close!!
Update 2/15/09 - I realized that there was something during the climax that I should have done but neglected to do, and that's the thing that's been drawing out the ending and making it a pain to write. I had to get rid of the last 15,000 words that I wrote, but it's better than having to keep struggling with an ending that doesn't fit. Hopefully the writing should go quicker now that I've had time to think about what I want this ending to look like, and know what I'm supposed to be aiming for. Please pray for me, because this is sort of a big blow and is very depressing.
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| BrennaM | Ohhhhh! | 3 | Mar 7 2009, 2:13 PM EST by sarimag_editor18 | ||
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I LOVE that pic!!!!! Is that going to be the cover? I love it!!!!!
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| sarimag_editor18 | woohoo!! | 6 | Feb 17 2009, 7:22 PM EST by sarimag_editor18 | ||
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You go girl!!
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| BrennaM | Wow! | 4 | Feb 15 2009, 8:37 AM EST by BrennaM | ||
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That is amazing! How many pages long is the novel?! I don't think I could ever write one that long! Keep going! Hopefully I will see it printed some day! It sounds so intriguing (Sp?)
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