Post by SianaBlackwood on Jan 18, 2011 8:39:35 GMT -5
This is basically the same intro I used for Milwordy. Yes, I like third person better than first even when I'm writing about myself...
Once upon a time there was this crazy cat lady called Siana Blackwood who decided she wanted to be a writer. She was about three at the time and just learning to read, so everyone said 'wow, a three year old who's already trying to read and write' and let her go her own way. Twenty years later, she still wanted to be a writer, but she had discovered that finishing stories was the hard part. Twenty five years later, she had discovered that even finding time to start stories seemed to have fallen by the wayside as she spent time studying. She wanted to make a change, wanted to go back to being the little girl who dreamed about writing a book. Then she discovered NaNoWriMo.
At the end of November she was the proud owner of a 75k novel. It was lame and full of spelling mistakes, but it had one scene that made her cry and several others that she actually re-read later. It also contained the crucial words 'the end'. They were even the last two words. Yes, Siana had finished an entire first draft. She was now a writer.
In the days that followed, she felt odd, though. She missed the characters, and having concluded their adventure there was really no way to interact with them any more. So, she signed up for NaNoFiMo and added 30k and an ending to the vampire story she had been working on before November. Then she realised she could actually write after all and she realised it was time to go back to making writing one of the most important things in her life. She wanted to aim almost impossibly high, though, and Milwordy seemed like the perfect challenge.
Siana declared 2011 the Official Year of Writing a Damn Lot and decided she was going to participate in 12 months of WriMos. Some of the stories might be going to span more than one WriMo, others would probably be abandoned before the ending and even more would be written as longer-duration side projects... but she was going to write a damn lot every month.
Will she succeed? Only time and this thread (and maybe a couple of others like it) will tell.
Once upon a time there was this crazy cat lady called Siana Blackwood who decided she wanted to be a writer. She was about three at the time and just learning to read, so everyone said 'wow, a three year old who's already trying to read and write' and let her go her own way. Twenty years later, she still wanted to be a writer, but she had discovered that finishing stories was the hard part. Twenty five years later, she had discovered that even finding time to start stories seemed to have fallen by the wayside as she spent time studying. She wanted to make a change, wanted to go back to being the little girl who dreamed about writing a book. Then she discovered NaNoWriMo.
At the end of November she was the proud owner of a 75k novel. It was lame and full of spelling mistakes, but it had one scene that made her cry and several others that she actually re-read later. It also contained the crucial words 'the end'. They were even the last two words. Yes, Siana had finished an entire first draft. She was now a writer.
In the days that followed, she felt odd, though. She missed the characters, and having concluded their adventure there was really no way to interact with them any more. So, she signed up for NaNoFiMo and added 30k and an ending to the vampire story she had been working on before November. Then she realised she could actually write after all and she realised it was time to go back to making writing one of the most important things in her life. She wanted to aim almost impossibly high, though, and Milwordy seemed like the perfect challenge.
Siana declared 2011 the Official Year of Writing a Damn Lot and decided she was going to participate in 12 months of WriMos. Some of the stories might be going to span more than one WriMo, others would probably be abandoned before the ending and even more would be written as longer-duration side projects... but she was going to write a damn lot every month.
Will she succeed? Only time and this thread (and maybe a couple of others like it) will tell.
I love that. 
. I still don't know what I'm going to write for Feb anyway, but at least I have one character. He's a big muscular guy with long blonde hair and a beard with two plaits in it - either a biker or a viking, I'm thinking. I know a couple of things about him, too - he's a soldier who's seen too many battles and would rather do something crazy (like kidnap a girl, for example) rather than see the world plunged into war again.
I hate the sad parts.