Vanessa (V.P.) Eboneigh

New Episode of Reign! I want to see some Mary/Bash swoon. Francis is kind of making me mad.

Today's post is about something I have experienced, and discovered helps me when I am doing NaNoWriMo and I am passing it onto you. When it comes to people doing NaNoWriMo for the first time don't stop writing. You will be tempted to go and add other things you think will make the story perfect. Here's a word of advice, if there's a scene you want to add to the story, write it down in a spiral notebook or notepad, and leave it to the side. When you finish your story and you go back later to edit, you can easily read through and see where those scenes you wrote down will fit. I found this helps me a lot and I know of other authors who do this technique as well. It's a great tool for when you want to add more juicy scenes to the story.

Happy Fall! So it's time for another NaNoWriMo is how to get some inspiration for when you get stuck writing the draft of your novel.  It has happened to me before and I have found some ways to get a small spark of inspiration. Depending on what you are writing about you'd be surprised at the amount of things you can find on the internet. Pintrest Pintrest is a great way to get some inspiration for when you can't think of what to write next. I go on Pintrest a lot when I get stuck on writing and I can't think of what to write next, or how to keep the story going, or describe certain things. But be warned, Pintrest can get addicting. Tumblr Tumblr is also a good way to get some inspiration for the story you are writing. Sometimes just looking at a picture will remind me of what I wanted to write next, and I will get inspired by clips, music, or pictures. If you need a certain picture of your character you can find one on Pintrest, and the pictures you have of your charac...

Here is for the next tip in preparing for NaNoWriMo, your characters. Your characters are the most important thing in a novel. Before you begin your novel, you need to know them. So this brings me to the next tip KNOW YOUR CHARACTERS Readers want strong characters, sometimes a character they can relate to. You need to have your characters ready in your mind. If you want to change their personalities more later on, you can do that, there is nothing wrong with that. Just know the basics for a character.  What if their personality; Snarky? Sarcastic? Shy? Angry? What is their goal by the end of the novel? Is this a series, what will happen to the character by the end of the series? Will they overcome obstacles? All of these are important facts when creating your characters. If you know your characters inside out, you can get that story down faster. While you're writing keep your character map next to you, so you can keep their personalities going. Remember your characters are the key ...

So today's tip is based from a writer who can write novels. He is considered legendary in the world of publishing, and writing, and his advice is not to be taken lightly. Today's advice is from Stephen King, and in his published work A Memoir of the Craft. His advice from the book applies when a writer is writing their novel during NaNoWriMo: DON'T LOOK BACK Yes folks, that is key when you are writing a novel in one month. Don't go back to the beginning Just keep writing and writing until you feel you have finished the story. Now you don't have a completed novel, you have a finished draft. Don't look back at the story. This is the reason as to why you shouldn't look back at the draft. If you keep going back to the beginning, you end up editing. Before you know it, you end up changing every single sentence in the story, and you will  will not hit the finish line. I normally have the habit of editing as I go, but during NaNoWriMo I have to break that habit. Yo...

Here is the next post I am putting for surviving through NaNoWriMo. (Once again these images I am using I do not own). When you start going into the writing cave for NaNoWriMo TURN OFF THE INTERNET Here is why I am telling you this, and I am speaking from experience. The first time I unofficially did NaNoWriMo in 2010, I kept getting onto twitter, and facebook, and I kept getting discouraged when I would see my friends getting such high word counts, and mine was incredibly low. I ended up writing half of one book, and half of another book, which I did end up finishing later on, I just have more tweaks to make to the characters to make them more original.  That's one tip, don't get on social media too much. When you are in the writing cave, you stay in the writing cave. Turn off your cell phone, T.V., and turn off the internet. You don't need distractions when you are working on a craft. All it will do is distract you. You can pop in every now and then to wish your friends g...

So in order to kick off the eve of NaNoWriMo, here are somethings to help the beginner get started. The key to NaNoWriMo is to write and don't go looking back at the beginning. Once Again (I don't own these images, no copyright infringement intended). First off is know the audience you are going to write the book for. Young adult, Adults, or middle school. Then know what sub-genre you plan writing. If you plan on writing a historical book, you'll have to heavily research the time period that you plan on writing. The second thing you'll want to do for your story is plot the actual storyline. Every author has their own way of doing their storyline. Some like to use the old English literary style that they taught us back in elementary school for writing stories, a plot flow chart. Another way to plot is by making a big sheet of and making a nine box flow chart of the sequence of events to happen. Some will even do it the old school way and a make flashcards, and post them ...

NEW REIGN EPISODE TONIGHT!

So now is the time for the writers who want to write novels but never have the time to finally get that story down on paper. I have done NaNoWriMo before. The first two times I did it I didn't officially register I did it on my own time, and I didn't even finish it. When I wrote in 2011, I got over50k and the story still didn't feel complete. Last year I wrote the first book in a new series of mine plus half of book two. I am debating onto whether or not I should finish writing book two and move onto book three to make sure the plot flows, or to write this other super secret project I've been anticipating on writing. I will keep blogging this week with tips on how to prepare, and to keep your little fingers hitting the keys as fast as you can.

What happens when happily ever after... isn’t? Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom. Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale. I have been anxious to get my hands on this book. I have ...

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. Claire is an artist, and as a child she stumbles upon a man in the forest near her home. While she's there she seems to finds a man who can time travel. Throughout her life Claire finds herself running into Henry at different times and in the strangest palces. Claire doesn't exactly get to have a traditional normal relationalship with the person she loves. I had seen the movie previously, and I normally don't do that, but I had wanted to read the book for a long t...

*Dusts off blog* I've been a bad blogger. I know, I know I haven't blogged in a really long time and for good reason.  You know the whole saying about kids fresh out of high school, and wasting a lot of money and time because they can't figure out what they want to major in, that pretty much happened to me.  My first four semesters at the university, I was bouncing around still finishing the core because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I mostly just wanted to major in English and be a full time writer. Realistically, it's hard to break out as a first time writer, and even P.C. Cast has said so when I went to her book signing, she was a high school English teacher for forty years before her work was published. Forty years?! But that was back when the only way to publish was through the Big Six publishers, and publishing has changed. Anyhow, so I finally decided on two careers/majors, nursing and music education. I know it's a weird combination, bu...

Tonight was the series premiere of Reign! Oh my god I can already tell you that I love this show more than anything.  Mary Queen of Scots has been living in a French Convent since childhood waiting until the day she will return to the French Court to marry the future king of France, Francis. After a failed attempt to kill her the nuns send her off to the French Court for her protection. here she is reunited with her friends. At court Mary starts to feel separation from Francis but finds herself bonding to Francis half-brother Bash. As Mary lives in the French Court Darkness starts to surround. HOLY FREAKING CRAP! I just loved this episode! And you can tell from the script that is is enough room for the plot to evolve into later chapters! Can't wait until next weeks episode!

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