For NaNoWriMo I signed up on this mini-NaNo forum with some other bloggers. It didn't really go over that well, not many people posted on it, but then today the girl who ran it sent me an email.  I won a bag of swag (bookmarks and such) which was cool. Then the bottom part read that since I had the highest word count, I get a mini-critique from a ( Read more... )

Here's the thing. I cannot write without music playing and I've been working on Gus's novel which still has no title (and it's bugging the crap out of me) and I need some new music.

Here is my weak and craptastic summary of the story:

Seven years ago Augustus Brooks (better known as Gus) made one fatal mistake that changed her life forever. After ( Read more... )

I worked a little on Just Call Me Gus last night.  I'm starting from scratch (again, I know) and taking bits and pieces from what I have already written. I chose 100,000 word goal because when I did 75,000, it said I was already half way done (ha!).  I know that will all change when I go through revisions (a far away dream right now), but I'm ( Read more... )

I suck at summaries.  Seriously, I do.

I wrote this "prolouge" out a long time ago, added a few things in for info mainly for my creative piece final in my writing class, and used most of it as the beginning of the second chapter in the story.

Title For Now: Just Call Me Gus

FYI: Augustus/Gus is a girl, not a dude.

Quick Sum-Up:  My character ( Read more... )