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About Kat GentianLocation: near Chicago, IL Home Region: Favorite novels: Discworld (esp. Jingo, Night Watch), The Moon and the Sun, Blood and Iron, Undertow, Territory, Girl Genius Favorite writers: Ursula LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, Elizabeth Bear, Vonda N. McIntyre, Lynn Abbey, Bill Bryson Favorite music: Instrumentals and the clacking of the keyboard Non-noveling interests: reading (mostly SF/F), music, movies, horses, walking, coffee, international friends and food, chocolate, photography, science (a degree! in Science!), animal watching, people watching, and did I mention coffee? |
Joined: Oktober 29, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 70 NaNoWriMo buddies: 10
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Brief Author Bio: This is my fifth NaNo. I haven't been this disorganized since my first one, which doesn't bode well for the word count. But, on the other hoof, I've reached 50K three times. I know the support of NaNo-ers is an awesome and powerful force, capable of dragging stories out of us (for example, those bits you read in January and don't remember ever having written). |
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Synopsis: Shadows Dance With the Wind
Part One: NaNo 2008
R.'s mother was dead. As was her tiny brother, who lived for less time than a butterfly.
She gained some understanding from an encounter with her mother’s spirit. There was an uncharacteristically complacent puma that she suspected was the spirit Puma and not a real cat at all. When B. attacked her, she surprised herself by just using her power to force him away.
She no longer felt like a child, but an adult. A shaman. Or almost a shaman. She’d seen the spirit of a dead person, spent time with an animal spirit, warded off an attack without causing harm. T., the group's shaman, was saying she should leave the group.
Part Two: NaNo 2009
She knew she should go study with the shaman S., but that would leave her father and older brother in their grieving. Without her to help. Shaman T. had been injured trying to save R.'s mother; he was trying to hide it. How could she abandon them, a group grieving, short on women to gather, with a barely functioning shaman? And if she left, would she ever return?
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