Tag: nanowrimo

Wheee! I won Nano! How about you?

Wheee! I won Nano! How about you?

This is my fourth attempt and fourth ‘win’. What do I win? Oh just the pride of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Yup. That’s all. ::grin:: And a cool certificate. How’d you do this Nano November?

I’ve got spirit… yes I do … I won #Nano … how ’bout you?

I’ve got spirit… yes I do … I won #Nano … how ’bout you?

I’m very cheery this morning because November is over and I won! Go me! Go Team Me! 🙂 Every year, about this time, November to be exact, a flurry of writing begins and ends around the world. You see … November was National Novel Writing 

50,000 words in first person … tada!

50,000 words in first person … tada!

Actually … 64,000 words so far … and counting … and climbing … to be edited, etc. 🙂 I’ve been wanting to write a YA romance for a while, but not under my more explicit pen name of Aimee Laine. So I came up with 

Nano ‘Tuesday Teaser’ : First Kiss(es)

Nano ‘Tuesday Teaser’ : First Kiss(es)

Okay … I’ve been asked a couple times and since I just re-read my opening and well … it still grosses me out (yes, yes, weird, I know) … I figured I’d throw it out there to you to decide or wonder or go … 

1st, 2nd or 3rd? Nov 1, 2010 = 1st

1st, 2nd or 3rd? Nov 1, 2010 = 1st

No, that wasn’t hard math. 🙂 That was me, saying, which ‘person’ shall I write in? Well … most (not all, but most) Young Adult (YA) novels are written in the 1st person (that means that the narrator can say ‘I’ or ‘Me’). As Aimee