Getting a little too close for comfort with my NANO novel ;-).
Know I haven't blogged in awhile, but I've been busily churning out words for NANOWRIMO. I am at almost 27k so it's comming along very nicely :-).
I am decided to try my NANO this year all through the diary entries of my sixteen year old heroine. The entry I just wrote scares me a little because it's very close to something I wrote myself when I was sixteen.
Like Mary, I've always been better with writing my feelings than speaking them. It's hard for me to find the words when someone does something to irritate me or hurt me because I'm afriad I'll say the wrong thing. I hope an editor someday doesn't make me cut this entry because though it is very personal, it's part of what makes my character. Much to my Joy, I'm realizing she's not the female version of Harry Potter :-). Here's the entry and keep in mind that it may be rough with the grammar and typos until I revise. Nano puts quantity over quailty and luckily, I have a talkative teenage muse :-).
Star Date Veneficium 45.0
Dear Diary,
Have ten days really slipped away since my last entry? Wow, I know I never I wrote in here every single day at home. To tell you the truth, I had more to gripe about at home. I know I wrote every single time Mom and I had a fight. I don’t fight with Aunt Cathy at all. In fact, I rarely see her. She’s always busy flying off to the fey kingdom of Fariana. When I do see her at dinner, she’s always been nice to me.
You know what? I don’t know why I used to rant about my Mom in diary at home. Maybe it’s because I couldn’t say some things to her face. Like Iziadore, I’m too much of a coward to tell her how I really feel.
I’ve always been better with writing my feelings out than saying them. That’s why I can text my Mom and tell her things I wouldn’t dare say to her face. It’s not like that with my Dad though. I think he understands me better because we’re more alike. I bet my Mom was an Iziadore type in High School and had guys falling at her feet. My dear ole’ Dad had a rougher go of things, because of his rep.
I’m different with my friends and even Keegan than I am with my Mom, but even Keegan doesn’t know the real me. I have exactly forty-five more days until my honey realizes I’m dull Mary Catherine and not Grenelena. I wonder if I should write him a letter and tell him the truth.
The letter thing might work, but there’s a part of me that says he deserves to know the truth from my mouth. Writing a letter might be a coward’s way out.
This bites, I hate the fact that he doesn’t know the real me but, I’m scared what will happen once he figures it out. I bet adults never have to worry about things like this. Ugh, it sucks being sixteen.
I should stop worrying so much and get to sleep. Keegan already said he loves my good heart and intelligence. That won’t change once I change into Mary Catherine before I go home. Maybe I’m the same inside, even if I don’t have Grenelena’s funky pink hair and big boobs. You know what, I am and I think Keegan will still love me regardless of what I look like on the outside.
Night,
Mary Catherine
I am decided to try my NANO this year all through the diary entries of my sixteen year old heroine. The entry I just wrote scares me a little because it's very close to something I wrote myself when I was sixteen.
Like Mary, I've always been better with writing my feelings than speaking them. It's hard for me to find the words when someone does something to irritate me or hurt me because I'm afriad I'll say the wrong thing. I hope an editor someday doesn't make me cut this entry because though it is very personal, it's part of what makes my character. Much to my Joy, I'm realizing she's not the female version of Harry Potter :-). Here's the entry and keep in mind that it may be rough with the grammar and typos until I revise. Nano puts quantity over quailty and luckily, I have a talkative teenage muse :-).
Star Date Veneficium 45.0
Dear Diary,
Have ten days really slipped away since my last entry? Wow, I know I never I wrote in here every single day at home. To tell you the truth, I had more to gripe about at home. I know I wrote every single time Mom and I had a fight. I don’t fight with Aunt Cathy at all. In fact, I rarely see her. She’s always busy flying off to the fey kingdom of Fariana. When I do see her at dinner, she’s always been nice to me.
You know what? I don’t know why I used to rant about my Mom in diary at home. Maybe it’s because I couldn’t say some things to her face. Like Iziadore, I’m too much of a coward to tell her how I really feel.
I’ve always been better with writing my feelings out than saying them. That’s why I can text my Mom and tell her things I wouldn’t dare say to her face. It’s not like that with my Dad though. I think he understands me better because we’re more alike. I bet my Mom was an Iziadore type in High School and had guys falling at her feet. My dear ole’ Dad had a rougher go of things, because of his rep.
I’m different with my friends and even Keegan than I am with my Mom, but even Keegan doesn’t know the real me. I have exactly forty-five more days until my honey realizes I’m dull Mary Catherine and not Grenelena. I wonder if I should write him a letter and tell him the truth.
The letter thing might work, but there’s a part of me that says he deserves to know the truth from my mouth. Writing a letter might be a coward’s way out.
This bites, I hate the fact that he doesn’t know the real me but, I’m scared what will happen once he figures it out. I bet adults never have to worry about things like this. Ugh, it sucks being sixteen.
I should stop worrying so much and get to sleep. Keegan already said he loves my good heart and intelligence. That won’t change once I change into Mary Catherine before I go home. Maybe I’m the same inside, even if I don’t have Grenelena’s funky pink hair and big boobs. You know what, I am and I think Keegan will still love me regardless of what I look like on the outside.
Night,
Mary Catherine
posted by Marguerite Arotin at Tuesday, November 14, 2006
1 Comments:
I keep trying to post a comment but it won't let me, hopefully this will work. You're doing awesome with your NaNo, I love Mary Cat's tale. I'm being stopped by research, I forgot to research about 18th century pirate trials prior to NaNo. That's the only thing stopping me from 50K.
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