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About EelKatLocation: Old Orchard Beach & Biddeford, Maine, USA, North America, Western Hemisphere of Planet Terra aka Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, In the Far Reaches of The Universe Home Region: Age:34 Website: http://twitter.com/EelKat Favorite novels: InuYasha, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Retief and the Warlords, Hichhicker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jane Eyre, Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, The Bailey School Kids, Choose Your Own Adventures, The Three Investigators, Nancy Drew, Bunnicula series, The Star Trek Books Favorite writers: Rumiko Takahashi, Don Rosa, Cal Barks, Keith Laumer, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Orson Scott Card, James Blish, H.G.Wells Favorite music: Nightwish, Serj Tankian, Dropkick Murphys, C*C*DeVille, Poison, Alice Cooper, Liberace, David Bowie, Tin Machine, Edvard Grieg, AFI, Rob Zombie Non-noveling interests: reading, writing, pets, embroidery, CosPlay, costume making, Disney, comic books, roosters, birds |
Joined: October 9, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 218 NaNoWriMo buddies: 471
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Brief Author Bio: If you are in the Saco Bay area please come to the local Write-Ins. We meet twice per week, from October through December. The Wednesday Write-ins are from 9:30 to 11am @ Dyer library on Main Street in Saco. The Sunday write-ins are @ the Golden Rooster a restaurant/dinar also on Main St in Saco @ 11:30am to 1pm. Sometimes we show up earlier (9:30 - 1:00). I'm at every meeting, always wearing my Naraku CosPlay this year, so if you come, just look for the black haired girl wearing a purple kimono, sitting at a table writing away and chatting with fellow writers. Love to see you there. =============================================================== I wrote my first book in 1978 and haven't stopped writing since. NaNoWriMo 2009 will be my 5th year at NaNo. So far I've had 4 years and 3 wins and this year I'm going for my fourth win. I signed up the last week of 2004, but never actually got started writing anything. Though it was the year I actually signed up, I don't count it as my first year, since I never actually started writing anything! I failed my first year (2005) ...did like 2,000 before I got bored with my plot. In the 2006 relaunch of the site, the 2004 archive got deleted, along with the accounts of nearly every member who had joined in 2004. My account was one of the thousands that vanished in October of 2006. :( Luckily, because the system was wiped clean it had no memory of the deleted usernames either, thus allowing us to start new accounts with the exact same usernames. YAY! So, now my account says I signed up in 2006 instead of 2004, like it is supposed to say (many of us whose accounts now say 2006 as our join date, actually joined in 2004, btw.) I did 183,000 my second year (2006) ... kind of to make up for failing the first year, but than never went back to edit it. I reached 75,000 third year (2007), but I never finished the story! In 2008, I did the unthinkable and changed my goal from 50k to 200k. YOW! But I did it and finished out the month with my biggest total ever: 238,153 words in 30 days!!!! (spaced out over 5 different books btw - none of which I totally finished, but one of which has since been nearly finished and at the time of this writing had just finished going through it's 4th draft! YAY!) Now NaNoWriMo 2009 is bearing down upon us and I've decided to try to beat my total last year and try for 250K or more. YIKES! It's a dream, but not my goal. It was REALLY HARD to reach 200k last year, and it had me writing night and day to do it. Don't know if I'll have the time I had last year, and this year I want to focus on writing slower to write a publishable novel. So this year my goal is 75k, and if I go over - great. Info about me outside of NaNo? Well . . . I am Wendy C Allen, Author, Artist, Doll Maker, Independent Avon Sales Representative. If I were a month, I would be August. |
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Synopsis: Dracula Lives Next Door & Jack's Revenge & Untitled & Untitled (a set of four 13k grade school chapter books)
I don't have all the details figured out yet, but the basic story is about Jack Frost, and his evil frozen ghostly minions taking over the world. I know, that sort of sounds fantasy, but it's more steampunk horror.
And no, that's not the cover art for my book, obviously. It's a scan of a cereal box, which I find inspires my plot and will help me to write. :)
I am working on writing up an outline and posting it on my website, though it's pretty sketchy and scatters around randomly quite a bit, but it does give you a pretty good idea of where I'm going with my plot, more or less. There's way to much to fit here, so see my website about it: http://www.squidoo.com/NaNoWriMo-2009
Well as you guys know, I had my plot all ready to go - outlined, character bios, world created - spent 2 months writing it all up, was all excited and ready to go. Than midnight strikes and I start writing a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT plot all together!
I stayed up all night October 31st (seeing how it was Halloween) watching Bela Lugosi movies. The Devil Bat ended at 12:13 and I started writing my NaNovel and before I realized what I was doing I found myself writing Bela Lugosi/Dracula fan-fic instead of my Jack Frost plot! Now I have no plot, no characters (except Bela Lugosi), no world created, and yet, here I am writing away at the seat of my pants with no idea where it's going, and I'm actually liking it and it's surprisingly really good - damn good! YAY! I may have something worth publishing when I get done!
I'm doing a NaNovel heavy on the Dares this year
I'm 4 hours and 2,964 words into my novel and already I've got dare shout outs coming left and right. Here's what I've done so far:
- my MC is wearing yellow socks with pink bunnies on them
- his mom is making garlic bread out of rancid yak butter
- his best friend keeps saying "Oh my strawberry Pop-Tart of joy and spectacularly worn T-shirt of sexiness" at the end or beginning of every sentence
- a famous celebrity has made a cameo appearance - my celebrity of choice was Bela Lugosi
- the villain (Bela Lugosi) just sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" at an unexpected moment
yep - the dares are coming along fine, and surprisingly, so far they have all made perfectly logical sense for my story! YAY!
- the first line of your story must be: "Where the hell are my pants?"
It was through my MC looking for his pants, that he ended up accidentally putting on his sister's yellow socks with pink bunnies on them, so I ended up using 2 dares in one with that! YAY!
and an update on the rancid yak butter - part of the dare was to use it as a weapon, well, I haven't used it as a weapon yet, but the fact that my MC's mom is using it to make Garlic Bread in a story about vampires - yeah, there's a good chance of my using rancid yak butter as a weapon at some point before Nov 30th rolls around! YAY!
I couldn't find the original rancid yak butter dare, and I couldn't remember which year's archive it was in, but at the Saco meetings we've been talking about a million and one ways to use rancid yak butter - it's like been the main topic of discussion at every meeting so far! LOL!
We've talked about using it to build Igloos with, filling the White House with it instead of jello ;), ways to use it as a weapon, etc.
I couldn't figure out what to do with it until last night when midnight struck and I started writing. My plot I was going to write was about Jack Frost and a Frost Zombie apocalypse. But it was Halloween and my shelves are full of Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi DVDs and I spent 3 days watching nothing but.
I was still watching them when midnight rolled around and I got to start typing. And that's when something strange happened - I found myself writing about 3 kids who saw this box being delivered to a deserted house and it turns out to be Dracula's coffin, and they meet up with Bela Lugosi and for some odd reason one of the boy's mother has joined a Tibetan yoga group that is lead by a monk that raises yaks and makes yak butter and so, the kids come home from discovering that Dracula has moved in next door to find their mom cooking garlic bread with rancid yak butter! LOL!
OMG! I have no idea where any of that came from, except I spent 3 meetings talking about rancid yak butter followed by three days of vampre movies and ended up writing that. I think the kids are going to end up fighting Dracula with Rancid Yak Butter Garlic Bread - and the way it's going right now, rancid yak butter is going to be a MAJOR plot element this year! LOL!
I'm having so much fun writing in the Dares this year! So I rushed back to the Dare Thread to find more dares. OMG! I love Dares, I'm going to try to have at least one dare on every page of my entire novel this year. :)
And I will get back to Jack Frost after Dracula, I'm just really on the move with this Dracula thing right now and don't want to stop while I'm on a roll.
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