{"id":38079,"date":"2011-11-03T20:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/03\/nano-challenge-days-1-3-catching-up\/"},"modified":"2011-11-03T20:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:53:49","slug":"nano-challenge-days-1-3-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/03\/nano-challenge-days-1-3-catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo challenge, days 1-3 (catching up!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1<\/strong> – Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before?\u00a0 If so, which years and what end result?\u00a0 If not (or even if so, for that matter), what\u2019s your connection to writing?\u00a0 Why do you want to participate this year?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yep, many times before! I participated in ‘04, ’05, ’06, ’08, ’09, and ’10. The only year I’ve finished was last year, when I wrote out my previous year in an urban fantasy novel. \u00a0Before that, I think the furthest I got was about 10,000 words. \u00a0I don’t recall what my ’04 or ’06 novels were about, but I do remember my ’05 novel was a shapeshifter romance set in the destruction of Hurricane Katrina (a real sensitive one, I am. Actually I handled it pretty well, I think, for being 17), my ’08 novel was an attempt to write my epic multi-mythology story, and my ’09 novel was about a wrongly-convicted stuntman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Day 2<\/strong> – What\u2019s the title of your story?\u00a0 Why did you choose the name you did?<\/span><\/p>\n

My novel is called “First Run.” \u00a0This title works for a few reasons: one, it sums up the idea of this being the main character’s first exposure to her sexuality, and two, because the little crafts they fly are called first-runs. \u00a0I thought it was appropriate for the first of a planned trilogy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Day 3 <\/strong>– Pick one of your female characters.\u00a0 Introduce your readers to her, from her point of view and her words only.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Hey, I’m Gus, Gus Gillis. Don’t tell him, but I’m only on the <\/span>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0because this is where my boyfriend Koby got deployed. Seriously, he doesn’t know that. And he doesn’t know I’d do anything else for him, too. Well, except all of that…eesh, dirty touching stuff. In sessions, of course, I’m sure he does lots of things to me, but since it’s only in my mind it doesn’t matter. Anyway, I’m just trying to be the best first-run pilot I can be. I love space, but I’m glad I share it with Koby and my dog Storm.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before?\u00a0 If so, which years and what end result?\u00a0 If not (or even if so, for that matter), what\u2019s your connection to writing?\u00a0 Why do you want to participate this year? Yep, many times before! I participated in ‘04, ’05, ’06, ’08, ’09, and ’10. The only … <\/p>\n

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