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Genre: Historical Fiction
About ArwenElizabethLocation: USA Home Region: Age:17 Favorite novels: Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women Favorite writers: J. R. R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Jackie Kendall, Leslie Ludy, Charlotte Bronte Favorite music: Classical, Hayley Westerna Non-noveling interests: Piano |
Joined: Juni 25, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 0 NaNoWriMo buddies: 11
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Brief Author Bio: I have been writing since before I turned 6, and I have been published in The Chatterbox, The Marin Independent Journal, at marinij.com, in Homeschool Encounter's online magazine, and at another website. |
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Synopsis: Unfinished People
~ credits for picture: art by fellow Nanowrimo author couragesbeast_thelady, at:
http://scholarsicons.livejournal.com/15603.html#cutid1 ~
Unfinished People is a story told in three parts, set in the 19th century during the regency era in Great Britain. The purpose of story is to show the beauty that can exist in life and youth despite our human imperfections, and that we are all, essentially, a 'work in progress', thus the title of the book. The story shows that we are all unfinished people, growing and learning and becoming more. In the book, Elisabeth Kilney and Joseph Lockley's lives are comprehensive and candidly examined: Unfinished People uses character-based story telling to create its depth, and to reveal the heart and soul of the characters to the reader.
Parts I and II in particular include glimpses of the lives of these two persons. Elisabeth Kilney's and Joseph Lockley's stories are told parallel to each other, and eventually weave into one story. The real story is not contained only in that their stories become connected in Part III, but how they grow over time. The story is the anticipation of and a reflection upon how their stories come together.
Excerpt: Unfinished People
An excerpt from the draft of Part II of the novel:
Sun came through the leaves of the trees and through the curtains, and fell on the beloved brown book. It sat on a nightstand, and Elisabeth Kilney took it and picked it up and felt it in her hands. Its cover was made of leather, and the pages were already growing yellow. They held her memories, and in a box below the nightstand were the letters and the messages and notes and pictures which were also as special as her favorite book. Every day she would return to them, and read what was written therein, or add to them. There were a few rare photographs, and hair ribbons, and all sorts of strange assorted things- the type of things which happen to fall into boxes for some strange reason or another, and which take on a sort of importance, and stay in their place for years and years, undisturbed.
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