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otherlleft
Novel: An It Harm None
Genre: Religious, Spiritual & New Age
50,083 words so far   Winner!

About otherlleft

Location: New Paltz, NY

Home Region:
USA :: New York :: Poughkeepsie

Age:40

Website: http://www.terencepward.com

Favorite novels: Pride and Predjudice and Zombies

Favorite writers: Dean Koontz, Raymond Feist, J.K. Rowling, Tad Williams, Stephen King

Favorite music: Hulst, Elfman, Queen, Era

Non-noveling interests: Backpacking, writing (believe it or not!), procrasinating, infobahn, art

Joined: October 21, 2004

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'04 '05 '06 '07

NaNoWriMo posts: 4

NaNoWriMo buddies: 5

 

Brief Author Bio:

I'm a business writer by day, churning out press releases, articles, biography pages, blog posts, business plans, and brochure text.

This is my month to shine.

Synopsis: An It Harm None

A clash of extreme religious values reveals systemic bigotry in the justice system as a man seeks to condemn his brother over the objections of his beloved son.

Excerpt: An It Harm None

I headed to one of the nearby parks and selected a sunny spot among the trees to sit down. The air was cool and the leaves crunched under me as I settled in. Next time, I promised myself, I would write a story that I made up entirely so that I could make sure that it had something of a happy ending. This one was tougher to tweak because everything that I added to it risked the threads of the narrative falling apart; I had only heard about it over drinks but I found the story fascinating, if sad. Someone told me it would make a good horror tale, but there weren't any clear-cut monsters in it, and I didn't write suspense well. What I had was the beginnings of a gripping human drama, but one where the main character tells the story by bitching and complaining about everything as if he has no responsibilities to anyone; I had tried writing it in the third person but it just didn't feel write. I really needed to get inside his head to make this story happen, and his head (or at least what I imagined of his head) was a pretty miserable place to be.
I took a look at my notes. I had taken down a spell he had tried using, and a poem of pleas, but I wasn't sure where to use them. I had originally planned on making this a story that actually involved dark supernatural powers facing off with the quiet faith of a Pagan, a Pagan whose belief in magick was mocked by many because it seemed ineffectual, but I am a bit of a skeptic so that was tough. Besides, if I made his powers useless against the darkness, you end up with a story that pisses off your readers.
I really hated writing novels.

otherlleft's Writing Buddies

Rahne Winner!
50,194 / 50,000
ciitrusy
18,277 / 50,000
rinkatur Winner!
50,024 / 50,000


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