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Genre: Historical Fiction
About Kitten KissesLocation: Central Ohio Home Region: Age:23 Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/~kittenkisses Favorite novels: They Cage the Animals At Night, The Glass Castle, The Lovely Bones, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Bride For Donnigan, The Book of Virtues, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, They Called Her Mrs. Doc, The Nonexistent Knight Favorite writers: Janette Oke, Alice Sebold, Jennings Michael Burch Favorite music: Josh Groban, Within Temptation, The Carpenters Non-noveling interests: Anime, Reading, Manga, Cats, Video Games |
Joined: October 6, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 16 NaNoWriMo buddies: 14
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Brief Author Bio: November is a month full of challenges for many people-- family get-togethers, high school and college exams, holiday meals that require your presence, and full-time or part-time jobs-- but for some reason, we still sit at our computers, fingers poised over the Home Row, and we write. We write as if something terrible will happen to us if we don't. (When in reality, the only terrible thing that will occur is the shame and humiliation of failing to complete the mission we told everyone we were planning to embark on.) Before we know it, plots emerge, pirates drink their ale and tell inappropriate jokes, unicorns start speaking a combination of English and French, and our characters start to form their own personalities, their own likes and dislikes. They even try to fall in love! Here's to a month of progress! No matter how bad your writing seems, no matter how much you struggle not to kill off your main character (because he or she is being a prat), remember this: blank pages can't be edited! |
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Synopsis: Equilateral
Before William Fischer left Missouri for New York to care for his father in his final days, he proposed to Louisa Stevens. She turned him down, mentioning his lack of financial stability as one of her reasons. Death came quickly to his ill father, and in March of 1849, William decided to board a ship--the Ira Blue--in an attempt to strike it rich on the other side of the country.
It's a dream that he never wakes up from; despite all odds, he finds gold. Exuberant, he sends a letter to his sweetheart in Missouri, asking--for the second time-- her to marry him. Now that he has money, he's more than able to take care of a family, and he's hopeful that this time, her answer will be yes.
There's one complication in this: Louisa Stevens doesn't love him, and she never has.
Unfortunately for her, her parents approve of the marriage, and her older sister can't seem to understand why she'd want to turn down a near-perfect marriage prospect. William is a good, honest, hard-working man who would treat her well and with respect.
It seems that her younger sister is the only one who is on her side.
William's always been persistent in proving his love to her. When she turned down his first marriage proposal, he swore that he would come back for her when he was financially stable-- as if that were the only reason she'd turned him down!
Determined not to marry someone she doesn't love, she decides to leave Missouri before William can return to marry her.
So she writes a letter to him, turning him down, and packs up her things. Where will she go? Oregon Country.
Once she finds herself in Independence, she quickly realizes that wagon trains don't need single, young women in their ranks.
What they do need are young, able-bodied men, and she decides to become just that. Louisa Stevens becomes Lewis Stevens, a young man intending to settle in Oregon. She intends to travel the entire 2,000 mile Oregon Trail disguised as a man. It's for her own safety, after all! But without privacy to speak of, and a man like Jack Rowe hovering nearby, will her secret stay secret?
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