5,000 Words!

Somehow, with all the procrastinating I've done - and mind you, it's been a lot - I've been able to hit my daily word count for three days in a row! This is a huge achievement for me, if you don't know me. I have a pretty bad habit of getting really excited about something, then falling off the wagon with it after a few days. Hopefully, with how hard I've been working on this darn book, I'll keep my steam and momentum going all the way through November so that December can really be NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month) for me!

Also, another fun thing I was able to do today, is find some faceclaims for my characters. For those of you who don't know, faceclaims are basically who you picture in your mind as you're writing something. A lot of times, screenplay writers will do this kind of thing - but not call it faceclaims, mainly because they're fancy - and will write a script "to" a certain actor or actress. Basically, they have someone in mind for the role before they even audition. In novels, it's the same sort of idea. I mean, I'll be honest, I don't know if anyone else does this, but it'd be cool to find out. Anyway, I picked out some celebrities (some well known, some totally underground) to use as faceclaims for my characters.

But Alexa, we want to see who you chose so we can picture it, too!

Ah, my friend, that's the writer's secret. Isn't the magic of reading something and picturing it in your head worth not seeing who I had in mind? Since writing and picturing characters and story elements is such a big part of my plot *cough cough*, I don't want to ruin the magic for any of you.

Maybe, in the future, my book will become a movie and these actors will play the roles, who knows. But for now, that's for me to know and for you to... well... not really ever find out.

Anywhoo, I hit a huge word goal today, my first 5,000 words! That's huge! That's 10% of my 50,000 word novel! I'm really excited about that!

So, to reward myself, I'm going to stay up a bit later than normal - and I can do that because I don't have class until about 10:30am tomorrow - and watch some Daily Show, keeping myself educated on the world.

Until next time, my fellow novelists,
-Alexa

Back In The Game

So for those of you who actually read my blog posts, you'll know I haven't posted in just under six months. Well, surprise surprise, I'm back and better than ever! And just so I can give myself more things to procrastinate on and do instead of actual work and writing to apply to my word count, I'm going to try and blog about it!

This being said, they'll probably be relatively short and not all that often.

Yet, I feel like 2014 NaNoWriMo is something that needs to be documented, and whether it's read or not, I don't really care.

And so I present, my 2014 NaNoWriMo novel, The Dead Key

Lucy Kent has spent years trying to reach some sort of normalcy, but when she discovers a typewriter in her grandfather's attic, her life is never the same. Every single word she types eventually comes to life. With the help of her grandfather and an old written friend named Theo, Lucy will learn the secrets surrounding the typewriter and her grandmother's death so many years ago.

Sooooooooo........? Sound interesting at all? Yes? No? Maybe a little bit if you were on pain meds and it was 3am? That's good enough for me. This is the novel I'll be spending an entire month on and hopefully, will one day make a book out of. It's definitely different than anything else I've ever written before, and I kind of like that. This is all a new, fun adventure that I can go on and I've specifically made it my mission to keep myself separate from my manuscript and story. Sounds strange, but it really makes a difference.

Thankfully, my best friend Cameron will be doing it this year with me, too. Let's hope we get to the finish line, folks! Keep on writing!

-Alexa