Genre: Young Adult & Youth
About MarcMaxsonLocation: Washington, DC Home Region: Age:32 Website: http://chewychunks.wordpress.com Favorite novels: Youth In Revolt (the secret diaries of Nick Twisp), Stranger in a Stranger Land, Harry Potter, Tao of Pooh, Farenheit 451 Favorite writers: Rowlings, Tolkein, Alexander Lloyd, Heinlein, C.D. Payne Favorite music: Pandora, Radioparadise.com, SwissGroove.fm, Soma.FM, Sufjan Stevens Non-noveling interests: Neuroscience, world traveling, other cultures, GlobalGiving, international development, science |
Joined: October 16, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 4 NaNoWriMo buddies: 10
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Brief Author Bio: Metrics guru at www.GlobalGiving.com, who writes novels and finishes neuroscience research papers on nights and weekends. |
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Synopsis: Qubrot's Folly: The Undead Amish Chronicles Continue
What happens when a naive Amish boy has to move to the big city and everyone he meets is a vampire, werewolf, or other quasi-normal being? I don't know, but perhaps the main character in this novel would be able to tell that story after all the pain he's been through.
I finished the first draft of this novel in 2007's NaNoWriMo, but I was stumped during editing by some lingering loopholes. So now I'm at it again, telling the story from a different character's point of view. I plan to interweave both POV characters together in the final draft as alternating chapters.
Excerpt: Qubrot's Folly: The Undead Amish Chronicles Continue
Deep underground, Qubrot strolled alongside one of the thick black pools. A rich cornucopia a cave crops grew around the edges. There were ferns and fleshy cactus-like plants. Multicolored mosses and fungii. Big bulbous pods striped in grey and brown that teemed with centipedes, salamanders, and crazy-many-legged creatures that devoured its bark like the flesh of a corpse. Long spiny stems with a single wide leaf stretching up like a hand towards the heavens. Looking up, there were even orange plants that grew downward out of the walls with many anchors that held out a wide sail of a leaf. Light was very dim in the cavern, and it eminated from swirling forms just above the black pools. The swirling glowing creatures were known to all the subsurface groups, and coveted for their life-sustaining energy in the land of darkness.
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