2:37pm- Excusez moi, I know it's been a while since I last posted but now that I am back, things have gotten busy and bustling.
I would like to start off with something incredibly depressing: it only rained here for an hour and a half (unless youo were downtown) for this entire month of October and it has been very sunny for weeks. San Franciscans don't know how address sunny weather and if you see one that does, most likely it is a tourist. Yes we are mistrustful of the weather due to microclimates. Wait, could it be that I, Blank Esquire is actually missing the roller coaster that was Paris's weather in July? Nonsense!
It is 2 days until the most beloved holiday that everyone has to go to work on comes, Halloween. Yes, the East Coast indeed has Thanksgiving and Christmas but San Francisco's holiday is really Halloween.
Tis 3 days until I disappear for a month into my computer to participate in an event called National Novel Writing Month, where participants all over the country attempt to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Yes, I have done it every since my high school creative writing teacher introduced me to it.
This year my novel is about a human female, Jelena Volker and a
faemon, Valentine are investigating and searching for a magical item that could
help them solve a mystery connected to the death of a strange woman and the
disappearance of two odd children as well for the human female to find out what
happened to her family and herself and how she ended up with a faemon.
Meanwhile, Logan Gillanders summons a faemon, Eike after messing with his
grandrather’s stuff, not knowing his grandfather isn’t all human and
neither was the strange woman who died at the apartment complex where he
worked. Concurrently, Jasper Dempster tries to prove that his sister
Ambrosine’s boyfriend Alasdair may not
be human but as he gets close to what he thinks may be the truth, a whole other
world opens, one that he didn’t think was possible.
Now, I have done a prologue, an epilogue and an outline but I am not sure that I will actually stick to the outline since I allow an organic flulidty to my work, allowing the characters to grow as they see fit which begs the question who is writing this novel? I know physically it is me but sometimes I doubt if I'm putting together a story or if the story guides me.
I will miss some hours of NaNoWriMo due to school, at least 2 birthdays and some holiday where we eat a lot. But in between I may be able to distract myself with my novel.
