NaNo Novels by: ddBoone

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11.01.2007

Start of NaNo

Well, I have started NaNo. I hand wrote some of my novel during the kid's center time. I had to stop just when I had got going well. I hate trying to write at school. I couldn't help myself though. I really wanted to write. I ended up hand-writing approximately 250 words. They are napping now. I may try writing so more now.

Labels: 2007, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 6:24 PM

10.29.2007

Outline Is Done!

I finished my outline for the story. It isn't detailed or anything, just the basic flow of the story. I am getting excited. I just sat down and went to doing the outline, which was good. I had put it off long enough.

I am ready for NaNo. I am excited, but calm. I have been excited in the past for weeks in advance, but each year, I have gotten excited closer to November 1st. I think I am going to wake up on Thursday and be crazy with excitement.

The last thing that I am going to do is post the pictures for my characters and places into my Resurrection Sunday Blog. Then I will be ready for Thursday, November 11, 2007.

Labels: 2007, NaNo, Outline

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:25 PM

10.27.2007

Yes, It's Done

I finished my NaNo Blog for Resurrection Sunday. I posted it tonight. It looks good. I think the font will be complained about because it is small, but I like the way it looks. I am just happy to have it done.

Labels: 2007, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:23 PM

10.23.2007

Character Sketches Are Done

Yippee! I finally finished my character sketches. It was after 11:00 PM when I finished them last night, but they are finally finished. I feel so good about it, too.

I can cross off one item off my to-do list today.

I am pleased with all but one of my characters. Boyd isn't who I want him to be at the moment. Well, his change of heart doesn't happen in an ideal way. One of my other characters who is going through something similar gives Boyd some sage wisdom and advice. Oddly enough, she doesn't seem to listen to her own advice.

On the one hand, it is good that it happened this way because that is usually how things happen with us humans, we can dispense advice about a situation, but we can't seem to take the same advice when we are in a similar situation. On the other hand, I just don't like. I think it will grow on my though.

On to the setting sketches.

Labels: 2007, characters, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 3:52 PM

10.21.2007

This Week...

I didn't finish my goals for this past week, so they are my goals for this week.

Here are my plans for the week...

Create and finish my NaNo Icons for this year. By 10/28.
Create and finish my NaNo 2007 blog. By 10/24.
Work on my character sketches. By 10/26.
Work on my setting sketches. By 10/26.
Work on my outline. By 10/26.
Submit all of my Milk-to-Meat assignments. By 10/28.

I have got to get on this stuff this week. I put due dates on each item, so I will have to do them. I may have to go into seclusion to get all of this work done, but I have to get it done. I want to focus on other things for the last three days before NaNo starts. I still have to do the sketches for my places and I have to find images to represent my people and places. This is going to be a full week.

Lord, help me to stay on task this week. Help me to accomplish all of the goals that I have stated above. I need to finish all of the things listed on my list. When I get tired or discouraged, give me strength and courage to go on. With Your help, I know I will complete the tasks before me. Thank You, Lord for Your help. Amen.

Labels: 2007, goals, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 3:05 PM

10.16.2007

NaNo Novel Work

I have been so wrapped up in Prewriting that I haven't done much work on my novel. Plus, I have been suffering with allergies, most of the time I just come home and try to relax. I haven't had much time to concentrate on my stuff with everything that is going on around me. I have got to get myself together before the 28th. That is when I want to be finalizing my pre-NaNo activities.

I do have character names:
Main Characters:
Precious Devereux - This is the Coquette in the story. She is the one trying to get the pastor.
Pastor Brock Van Duren - This is the pastor of the church.
Alexia Trudeau - This is Precious' aunt.
Boyd Lee Allen - This is Brock's best friend.

I have the places settled on:
Church - New Tabernacle of Praise Baptist Church. My brother had suggested New Tabernacle Baptist Church, but I searched the church name on Google and there quite a few churches with that name. I searched New Tabernacle of Praise Baptist Church and there weren't any churches with that name, so that is the name I will be using.

City - Jouette. Of course I am using the name of a city from the state of Maddocha.

Mall - Orchard Park Mall - I am still looking for a name for the mall. I want something more than just Jouette Mall or Mall of Jouette.

Beauty Salon - Lovely Ladies Salon - This is where Precious & Alexa get their hair and nails done.

I have a timeline of events for the story. The story starts on Thursday afternoon and ends on Sunday afternoon. I have what events should happen on what day.

I guess I haven't been goofing off as much as I thought I had.

Labels: 2007, characters, NaNo, Settings

posted by Lady Boone @ 8:10 PM

Excitement Abounds

I am so excited. I finally found a picture that I liked for my NaNo Novel.

It is so amazing. I am so excited. It is cool, too because the lady is the correct skin tone and ethnicity. The church in the picture is like mad crazy. I love it like crazy. The preacher in the picture is cool, too. I have to create my blog for the NaNo now.

Labels: 2007, NaNo, prewriting

posted by Lady Boone @ 8:07 PM

10.14.2007

This Week...

Here are my plans for the week...

Create and finish my NaNo Icons for this year.
Create and finish my NaNo 2007 blog.
Work on my character sketches.
Work on my outline.

Labels: 2007, goals, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:58 PM

10.13.2007

Prewriting Tirade

I am pre-writing my novel right now. I can't seem to find the clipart that I want to use for the picture. I will make do with what I found.

I learned about prewriting while I was in school to become a certified school teacher. In prewriting, the students are asked to draw a picture of what they want to write about. Learn more here.

Funny thing is, I am still not certified. I need to take my tests. I am going to do it eventually. I need to call Region 10 and ask them how much longer do I have to take the test. I hope that my time hasn't run out yet. if it has, my husband is going to kill me.

I don't think I will be a good teacher. I have issues with discipline. I can't get with this love and logic stuff. I am old school. When I tell you to do something, you need to do it. I am not into this asking a child to do something. I am used to telling them to do something. That's what is wrong with these kids today, they have too many choice.

I'm like my mama… You have two choices, one to sit down, and the other to get your tail busted. Wait a minute, I can't do that.

How did prewriting turn into all of this?

Labels: 2007, Discipline, NaNo, prewriting

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:54 PM

NaNo Icons

I worked on some icons for NaNoWriMo. Visit my NaNo Icon Site. I redid some of the ones I did for last year. I created quite a few new ones. I created 32 of them. I have a whole lot more to create.

Some other people are creating icons as well at the Live Journal Community. I haven't downloaded any of them. I kind of want to use my own icons.

The people at the icon community are so talented. Sometimes I feel like my icons are so elementary.

I started creating icons last year. I create other types of graphics. Icons can be hard because they have to be a specific size. I enjoyed it last. I decided to do it again this year.

I hope people like my icons. I shouldn't worry about that, but I do. It is so fulfilling to have people like your work. I will just create them. If people want them, then they can have them. Can't worry about too much of that. It doesn't matter if anyone else likes them. I love them!

I should probably use some clipart other than the ones at MicroSoft. BIG SMILE.

Labels: 2007, Icons, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:52 PM

10.11.2007

Idea Sharing

I am so excited about my idea for my NaNo Novel.

I emailed Jerry and asked him to help me with the name of the church and a mall. He gave me the name of a church. Jerry said that he liked my idea. He is going to have to help me write the Resurrection service sermon. I want it to be good.

I emailed Jolene and asked her to design a cover for me. I gave her some ideas. She is excited, too.

I posted a note about me writing a novel in my signature at school. Quite a few people said that they checked out my sites. They said that they liked them. It is cool when people check out your stuff. I hope some of them will check out my novel. I am only going to post two or three chapters of the novel. I hope to publish it one of these days.

I am going to have Captive By History and Flirting With Danger online. I don't mind them being online since those were my first two attempts. Allegations and this year's novel, I will get published.

I will begin prewriting, outlining, and character sketching later on.

Labels: 2007, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:32 PM

10.10.2007

A New Word

I learned a new word while writing the synopsis for Resurrection Sunday. I first used the phrase "Sexy Woman" to describe my female character. I wanted to use something different. I looked up the phrase "sexy woman," but it wasn't in the dictionary @ http://www.dictionary.com/. I looked up flirt in the dictionary first and then in the thesaurus.

Here are some of the words that were listed as synonyms:
coquette, cruiser*, gold digger, heartbreaker, operator*, philanderer, player, seducer, siren, swinger, tease, trap, trifler, vamp, vixen, wanton, wolf*, wolverine.

The only I really liked was coquette. Most of the other words referred to men. Several of them referred not inanimate objects.

Coquette [koh-ket] is a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
It also means, a woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures.
Here is another definition... a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.

Ain't learning grand?

Labels: 2007, NaNo, Vocabulary

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:45 PM

Finally, An Idea

I got an idea. I feel like dancing. It came to me while I was riding the bus. I was listening to a song on my I-Pod. The song made me think of Resurrection Sunday (Easter). The idea came to me; a coquette meets the new (single) pastor of a local church. She goes to church to "meet" the pastor, but she meets Jesus instead.

It was cool. I got all excited.

I get to use two aspects that I love to use in my writing: A lady that dresses up and is very girlie as well as being well-to-do. I had to come up with a story where I could use those two elements.

Here is the link for the site... http://www.alwaysinspired.info/nano2007/ .

Coquette [koh-ket] is a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
It also means, a woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures.
Here is another definition... a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.

Labels: 2007, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 7:35 PM

10.02.2007

No Idea Yet

I am still tripping because I don't have an idea for NaNo yet. I have been contemplating what to do, but I don't have anything concrete yet. I don't know why I am fretting. I have a few days before I need something.

Labels: 2007, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 6:10 PM

10.01.2007

Mad Challenge #2 from Mad Challenge

From Mad Challenge

Are you doing NaNo?
I have two ideas tossing around in my head. I can also finish last year's novel, but I don't know just yet.

Labels: 2007, Mad Challenge, NaNo

posted by Lady Boone @ 6:06 PM

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