Vanessa (V.P.) Eboneigh

One of the reasons my story takes place in this country is because I grew up around a lot of people of this culture. The country has a beautiful rich culture that is also influenced from their African ancestors, but also the country is beautiful. One of the things that made writing this so difficult was about the food. I love their food. When I lived in Georgia, which is where I went to school from first grade until I graduated high school, I loved when the school did culture day! Learning about every culture was just fascinating, and I loved every minute of it! I discovered a weakness for this countries food at the time. These are some of the dishes in my Latinx historical fantasy Moqueca Capixaba Ceviche is also a popular dish in all Latinx countries. Shrimp Ceviche Ceviche of Sea Bass Maria Mole Cajuzinho 

Hello World, I hope wherever you are you are trying to stay as safe as possible. This is going to be a difficult next few months.  My town so far has not had any major issues as our count of the infected is still low, but I am taking extreme precautions. I'm lucky to where my current job allows me to work from home, and I always buy in extra every grocery story run, so I have a good amount of stock. I work part-time as a librarian and until further notice all libraries are closed.  It's scary. I don't know if it's a sign that I've read too many dystopian novels, but I FEEL like I'm living in a dystopian book where a highly dangerous drug is spreading and killing people. Where food is scarce and everyone is fighting over getting to the stores to buy the last of everything before it runs out. Where the money is dried up and people are struggling. I might have read it in books, but it's starting to seem too real. On Writing I have two diverse YA fantasies that ...

So a USA Today Bestselling author who is also a participant of NaNoWriMo. Her 2010 NaNoWriMo story became a bestseller. These are her tips for revising her NaNoWriMo stories. 1. Read it through in its entirety, but don’t get hung up on nitpick-y editing.  At this stage I’m looking to see what the heck I’ve written and make notes of any changes I’d need to make. Some of these are big-picture thoughts I write in the Notes section for that scene in Scrivener, or it’s a footnote I’ve added to a word or sentence.  At this point, I’m only concentrating on the big picture—the bones of the story. This is the Emergency Room stage—your story is bleeding, the plot has so many holes, or is missing an entire limb, and so you should only be figuring out what the massive wounds might be and how to fix them. Don’t worry about the small cuts. Not yet. Resist. 2. As I’m going through, I also write down a short summary of each scene  in the Synopsis “card” in Scrivener. 3. Once done, I go b...

I found an advice article on world-building on a blog called Freshman Fifteen, it's columns written by authors who are having their debut books released in 2015, and one of them has a fantasy novel releasing. Victoria Aveyard author of the Red Queen coming out in 2015 wrote about world-building for books, and I thought I would share it. (I found a lot of the material in this helpful since the first book I wrote was YA urban fantasy and I mostly made it all up as I went along).  Source: http://freshmanfifteens.com/freshman-fifteen-author-victoria-aveyard-talks-worldbuilding/ I’m lucky in a lot of ways. 1) I got my hair ombré-d last September and haven’t had to touch it up since and 2) I can pinpoint the exact moment when I discovered my great love of creating stories. I was eight years old, flipping through a Legend of Zelda guidebook while my brother navigated through that god-awful Water Temple. Even back then, I was obsessed with maps, but I’d only had atlases to look at. Now I h...

I finished fixing my manuscript! THIS makes me very happy. There were a couple of spots that were bugging me, and I couldn't put my finger on it on how to make it better. So I had to keep brainstorming to see how to make it better. Now one thing I am worried about is the word count. I feel it's just right, but then a little bit too low. When Asked Veronica Roth on twitter about word count she said 55,000 was a good range. She told me when she started submitting Divergent that it was exactly 55,000 words. Then when she under went revisions with her agent the word count went up to around 78,000. Then when Harper Collins bought Divergent and she did revisions from her editor the final word count went up to 105,000. So I hope I am in an okay range. I like stories that get right into the action and don't mess around adding unnecessary background stories. Now to decide if I will submit to #PitchWars or not.

Now that I am done with summer school I am taking the time to revise the couple of spots manuscript that were bugging me. I would sit in class thinking how can I change this? How can I make the plot twist more realistic? Then in the middle of the night the idea hit me, and I didn't care that my class started at 7am, I had to put that in before I forget. So I sat down Plus #PitchWars is starting again. I don't know if I will submit again this year. Depending on how fixing the couple of scenes goes I'll decide then.

I finally finished this semester. Some of my classes were really hard so I glad this semester is over. I submitted to PitchWars, and sadly I didn't get in. But one of the mentors gave me some really helpful feedback on my first five pages. So I will be taking that feedback I got from my mentor and working with my beta on getting the first three chapters into shape before I send off to agents in January.

To all the participants of NaNoWri last November,  Nora Zelevansky  a novelist, journalist, essayist, and editor, whose writing has appeared in Elle and Salon wrote a letter to all of those who are working on publishing their NaNoWriMo story. Dear Writers, There is a long-standing debate among us about which is more daunting: a blank page or a rough draft. Historically, I consider myself a stalwart of the former camp;  something  seems preferable to nothing. At least, I thought I felt that way until I recently finished the first draft of a new manuscript, stared into the editing abyss, and promptly developed a case of vertigo. In 2009, I participated in National Novel Writing Month for the first time. Along with thousands of others, I aimed to write 1,667 words every day for a month in hopes of manifesting an honest-to-goodness book. I hemmed and hawed with the best of them, but ultimately relished the process of letting my imagination steer. That year, when I finish...

In my email, this is soemthing that New York Times author Marissa Meyer who in 2008 wrote her novel Cinder during NaNoWriMo and got it published. Stars above, Fellow Novelist, you did it! Whether you tackled the 50K challenge last November or have spent the past five years plugging away at your first draft, you now stand among the few, the proud, the somewhat mad. You wrote a novel. If you harbor dreams of seeing that novel on the shelves of your local bookstore, then writing "The End" is the first step toward making that dream a reality. In fact, it's the most important step, and you might be surprised at how few aspiring writers ever get there. But not you. You set out to write a novel, and that's just what you did. You toiled, you struggled, you laughed, you cried, and when it was all done, you cheered and celebrated this awesome achievement.* Now you're ready to tackle whatever comes next. Which is, naturally, the process of revision. There is  a lot  that can...

I am now back at school. Vacation was hectic but I was able to begin writing the sequel to my nanowrimo trilogy I plan to self publish. I wanted to self publish it while the genre is still high and there are readers out there. But as vacation time is over and now it's time to do the most exhausting thing with my project. Editing. This has to be the most dreadful part about writing the novel, going back and editing the approximate 55,00 to 75,00 WORDS that you wrote back in November. It's just pages and pages of things that need work. My first draft was completed at approximately 65,000 words, and once I do some editing myself, then send the chapters to my critique partner, I end up with a higher word count that could range over 100,000 words. I'll have to see what editing takes me with this NaNoWriMo project. I was so tempted to go back and edit the what I had written. After day one of NaNoWriMo I had 15,000 words written. All of it was mispelled and all but I had to rememb...

I'm one of those writers where I need a visual of my characters before I begin working on my new writing project for NaNoWriMo, so these are the people I pick that resemble my characters the most. ( I DO NOT OWN THESE IMAGES )

So while I continue to write books two and three in my trilogy for publishing purposes, these are the actors who I would pick for my book, and have pictured in my head. This really helps me to have a visual of the characters so I know who I am writing, how to describe their looks, what kind of personalities will they have, and what will be the major challenge in the series. I have minored in theater, so the actors are picked are the ones who match the personality of the characters in my trilogy. I DO NOT OWN THESE IMAGES La Terres de Fey Nephilim or