Bryndel | National Novel Writing Month

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Bryndel

Novel: Onehorn [working title]
Genre: Fantasy

3,741 words so far

About Bryndel

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Home Region:
USA :: Colorado :: Colorado Springs

Age:23

Favorite novels: Watership Down (and "Return to" the same), Never Cry Wolf, Gary Paulsen's dog books specifically. Just about all the Artemis Fowl books and Hobb's Farseer and Liveship Trader trilogies of course! (Yes, both of them deserve a double mention.) Patricia Wrede's The Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Sherwood Smith's Crown Duel duology; many non-Valdemar Mercedes Lackey books (the Elemental Masters and later Bedlam's Bard books in particular) and even a few Valdemar ones as well.

Favorite writers: Robin Hobb, George R.R. Martin, Robin McKinley, Eoin Colfer, Gail Carson Levine, Holly Black, and many of the awesome people at the Wild Wolf Society who provide support, courage, and inspiration.

Favorite music: Disney and musical soundtracks, mostly, with some random TV themes thrown in; some oldies, light rock, pop, and R&B. Still lacking "The Pirate Queen" but I have a number of other musical soundtracks I'll undoubtedly be noveling to. I'm on last.fm as bryndel, also, if you *really* want to stalk and know. http://www.last.fm/user/bryndel

Non-noveling interests: Animal behavior, dogs, rodents, and more recently cats and various ice age critters (because who doesn't love a demon duck of doom?); veterinary medicine, exotics/zoological critters; reading, drawing, acting, RPGs model painting (and RPing too of course), chopping the heads off elderly toy ponies in order to prettify them again. ...People always give me strange looks when I say that. I don't know why...

Joined: November 7, 2006

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'06 '07 '08

NaNoWriMo posts: 45

NaNoWriMo buddies: 11

Brief Author Bio:

Having been wasting her time attempting to accomplish more educational pursuits the last several years, Bryndel has given up on the latter for now and (with the possible hinderance of a part-time job and the probable hinderance of a certain Siamese cat) can now focus much better on her noveling. She hopes.

Mainly a reader and writer of any dog and animal-related fantasy and science fiction she can get her hands on, and occasionally even some non-fiction where she's not making *everything* up, Bryn has actually been published before. Once. In first grade, when her Easter bunny story won a contest. The author-illustrator never saw any of the profits, mind...sigh. Since then she's stuck to the even worse-paying (but nonetheless highly rewarding) volunteer articles she writes now and then for various humane societies and their ilk. She's still trying to figure out how seriously to pursue writing as a career, but intends to pursue it in some form or other even if it never pays the bills. (The satisfaction of myself and readers is great to feel, but money in addition to that'd be even better.) Additional thanks must be given to her ~~victimized~~ completely willing copy-editing volunteer friend Jessica, who is going to teach her to properly edit things for a change, in-between providing a monster-killing partner for Bryn's procrastinatory World of Warcraft breaks. Note that this biography has served as yet another mid-October novelizing practice in packing in the words, which really makes you wonder why Bryndel has never simply bound her regular rambling together, called THAT a novel, and claim she's won ...

Synopsis: Onehorn [working title]

For twenty-odd years, Liane Rusuaio has been nigh on inseparable from his mount. Mutual ties of life-debt and love have brought them closer than blood over those years, especially important to Rusuaio as a formerly impoverished thief and orphan. Unbeknownst to most, his horse Kheizaan is not in fact a horse, but rather a unicorn in disguise. This becomes painfully evident when the unicorn is forced to follow the callings of his magical biology. The two friends are separated, with uncertainty as to when--or whether--they will be reunited. Onehorn follows Liane as, whilst learning to cope without his best friend, he goes through the ensuing upheavals of two unsettled kingdoms only recently reconciled along with unexpected changes in his personal life and those of his acquaintances both old and new.

Excerpt: Onehorn [working title]

[ Currently still too horrified by the pitiful, limping results to post anything from this meager monstrosity. Sorry. :P Check back later. Hopefully soon, when my muse wakes up and the words start to flow (this is the most terrible start to NaNo I've ever had, I swear ;.; ). ]

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