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Bad Weather Leads to Good Ideas

I am excited to say that the weather at the cottage this weekend has been very conducive to noveling ideas. I have the skeleton of my plot pretty much complete, and all the is left is filling in the details. I don't want to reveal too much, but it will be a story of love, friendship, change, and choice. It's also wholly unoriginal, and pretty meaningless, but it will be funny - and more importantly fun to write. My main character will arrive in a small town, with no memory of her previous life, and no knowledge of who she is. She will have to make up a name for herself, and she will choose Emma Baker. She will be taken in by a friendly family (the Stones) who owns a bakery ('Batter Up' or 'Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice' - am open to ideas), and work there with the son, Rob Stone. She will be funny, and awkward, and more than a little clumsy. Needless to say hilarity, and a budding romance, will ensue. Eventually, her old life will catch up with her, and s...

Want to Drink Like Your Favourite Authors?

I came upon an article entitled "How to Drink Like Your Favourite Authors". I thought it would be good to share with my fellow EsNoWriMo-ers in advance of this years non-stop writing extravaganza. Click here and enjoy.

No Title, But 50,414 Words Means That I am DONE!

Yay! I finished, after writing 5000 words in less than three hours. It's not very good, and needs some very heavy handed editing, but I am done, and I am so so so happy that I am finished. It's been really tough this year, but I think that I will like my novel, and maybe you will too! I will continue to comment on others blogs, and I wish you all good luck in these last few days, in this final push to the finish line. I know that you can all do it, and I know that all of your novels will be wonderful. I can't wait to read them! I'll just post a short excerpt. Mark is in an airport, waiting for a flight, and he meets a girl. He went to gate 132, United Airways flight 77 to San Francisco. He sat down next to a beautiful brunette.                 “Hi, I’m Mark,” he said with confidence.                 She turned to him, surprised. “I’...