23-11-10 Pretty Things "Somehow I completely missed spotting the Novel Cover thingy on the NaNo Info page. So I skipped a word war to make one.
This is another image from the Flickr set I really like. Not so keen on the purple bars and titles, but I think that font is better the one I have in the current site banner.
In other news, I’m officially Behind again. I fell 327 words short of the necessary minimum for Monday–which is actually not bad considering that I only worked on it for about an hour and a half. One thing I’m finding is that I CAN churn out a lot of words if my mind is sufficiently active.
Interestingly, I’m only about a third of the way through my outline. If each third is 35k, that would make the full novel over 100k. That’s not a bad length, though it might be pushing it for YA. At least I’ll have plenty of things to cut.
Then again, there are at least three places where I did an [INSERT SOMETHING HERE] and I’ve given up on transitions–this Scrivener organization is good for pushing me ahead, bad for making everything connect. That’ll make revision very interesting.
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Already struggling with loyalty, privacy, friendship and love, Janine needs to work out for herself what sex means to her–and how far she is willing to go to defend her position.