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About sleeplessLocation: Lexington, KY Home Region: Age:26 Favorite novels: A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan, Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin, Othello by Shakespeare, Wicked by Gregory Maguire (the book is even better than the awesome musical), Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neal Hurston short stories, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Doll's House by Ibsen, Devil Wears Prada (I was on an internship the summer I read this and really related to her pain). So many more ... Favorite writers: Shakespeare, Terry McMillan, Zora Neale Hurston. Those are the three names that come to mind immediately. I like discovering new writers. Nonfiction. I'm reading Sound and Fury as of Oct. 29, 2009. It's about Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell. Required reading for all native Louisvillians. Favorite music: Jazz. Classical. Non-noveling interests: Learning HTML. Creating a Web site. Glee, Dexter and House. Good movies. Fashion magazines. Rearanging furniture in my apartment. Hot, hot food that messes up your insides. |
Joined: October 30, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 2 NaNoWriMo buddies: 11
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Brief Author Bio: I'm a full-time newspaper reporter who wants to get in touch with her crazy, creative side. The spicier my food is the better. I sometimes watch paid programming marathons because they're funny. I like wine and fruity mixed drinks. My favorite reading places are in bed on a rainy day or outside of a coffee shop on a nice, sunny day. I sometimes watch too much What Not to Wear or America's Next Top Model then decide all my clothes suck and I need go shopping. My username is accurate because I do have trouble sleeping. But that's really the name I created three years ago when I just wanted to know what NanoWrimo was all about. Now I'm stuck with it. Good luck to everyone. |
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Synopsis: Writer Girl Saves the City
A night police reporter for a newspaper hates her job. But it gets interesting one day when she starts to hear the crimes on the police scanner before they actually happen. I think she becomes some sort of a reporter superhero woman.
Excerpt: Writer Girl Saves the City
That nippy November day started just like every other Monday had started in the past two years. I was awake, lying in bed disgusted when the Hip Hop song meant to get me excited about the day chimed from my Blackberry in the half-open drawer of the nightstand. I reached for the phone and opted out of the 10-minute snooze. Instead, I reset the alarm, giving myself another 45 minutes to embrace pillows.
The alarm went off again at 2:45 p.m., and I threw the covers to my right and swung my legs over the left side of the bed. “Normal people woke up six hours ago,” I thought, grunting a few of the words aloud to myself. “Normal people ate lunch an hour ago and are watching office clocks, counting down until they can sprint from their cubicles and drive recklessly in rush hour traffic to get home to wives and husbands and children with Dora the Explorer backpacks full alphabet homework.”
“Normal people suck,” was my final thought before I turned off the alarm and started to undress.
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