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Genre: Fantasy
About phoneLocation: Texas Home Region: Age:16 Website: http://coin.livejournal.com/ Favorite novels: Harry Potter, A Separate Peace, Catch-22, Pride & Prejudice, Meg Cabot's Mediator series, The Prestige, The Princess Bride Favorite writers: Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, Dan Brown, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jonathan Stroud Favorite music: Jason Mraz, Regina Spektor, Sara Bareilles, A Fine Frenzy, MIKA, Paolo Nutini, Dashboard Confessional, Sonohra, Jovanotti, Ligabue Non-noveling interests: Fencing, facebook, language, etc. |
Joined: Octubre 2, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 1 NaNoWriMo buddies: 11
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Brief Author Bio: This is my third year doing NaNoWriMo; it will also be my third year winning NaNoWriMo. (Ignore the word count, it lies to you, I will most definitely be finishing.) I have basically been a writer since the third grade, when, sitting in the car, a short poem jumped into my head. I wrote 20-something poems in the next three years and thought I was destined to become a poet. I was wrong. Sixth grade was my transition -- I was beginning to realize my poetry was mostly emo crap with a few decent gems among the mix. Seventh grade was my Defining Moment in which I realized, hey, who needs poetry when you've got prose? Such went the change; I dabbled in poetry throughout the rest of middle school but still focused on prose. By high school, I had stopped writing poetry completely, and in October, I discovered NaNoWriMo through LiveJournal. And the rest, as they say, is history. |
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Synopsis: A Journal, A Journey, A Joust
It has been six months to the day since Darla's life might as well have ended, six months since her father's rooms were closed off to the world, and one year exactly since he started a journal after chasing a rabbit into the mountains.
On this day Darla finds her father's journal and begins, hesitantly, because she does not know exactly what she is doing, to follow in his footsteps. After this day Darla will begin to live again, will go through what her father went through in the months before he died, and will feel refreshed and happy, as if she is being cured of a disease she didn't know she had.
The only thing is: her father was never cured. Her father died.
Excerpt: A Journal, A Journey, A Joust
because every novel needs a romance plot *facedesk*:
"Why are you here?" I asked him suddenly, struck with a bout of curiosity. "Really, it doesn't make any sense. You should've ... left me alone. You should've told my mom where I was going, if you really wanted to prove to me that you were right (which you're not). You should've just stopped coming in the first place if you really thought this dangerous, not went through all that trouble to warn me and wait for me and break up with Aquila... it doesn't make any sense. And yet you're here. Why?"
"I didn't say I was trying to prove to you that I was right," he pointed out to me gently. "Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense."
"Actually, it doesn't," I returned. "No sense at all."
"You don't have an idea of why I'm here?" he asked me, somewhat softly. "Not even a clue?"
"No. Not at all."
"I would've thought it'd be obvious."
"Well, got to break it to you, it's not."
"Hint: that last part you said. The part about me going through all that trouble to warn you and wait for you and break up with Aquila. Any more clear?"
"Hmm..." I thought about it. "Nope, not really. I've got nothing."
A pause. He was quiet for another moment before he sighed somewhat uncharacteristically. "I can't believe you never figured it out. Aren't you supposed to be smart?" he said, an exasperated tone to his voice, and leaned over and kissed me.
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