Prepare for NaNoWriMo

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 on a board so they have something to refer back to as they are writing the story. I used to do it this way.

I normally write all of my stories in a word document, but this year I'm going to try something different, I have heard a lot of who use the writing software Scrivener for drafting their manuscripts, then exporting them to word to fine tune it. Since NaNoWriMo offers a discount to NaNoWriMo winners, I'm going give it a try. It's suppose to help writers, and it allows for us to to move chapters around easily, make notecards for plotting, and export into formats for self publishing.

When I start using it for NaNoWriMo I'll make a post about it with some pictures.

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Countdown to NaNoWriMo

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.

Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer

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 been a big fan of Jodi for years, and now she co-wrote a book with her daughter. Basically, Delilah falls in love with the character of a book. Being an outsider in school, she's only found comfort in books.She finds herself attracted to a guy in fairytale Prince Oliver. When a person reads the book, the prince speaks out to them. 

I liked how the main character Delilah was able to escape to books, much like myself, I never felt like I fit in with other kids at school, I only hung out with a few groups, but I always had my nose buried in a book in order to escape the world, so that was my personal connection to the book. The book like all of Jodi's other books is told in multiple point of views, this one is written in three point of views. Some parts of the book tended to be a tad bit dull, but other parts were starting to get into the real fantasy aspect of it. I like Jodi's other books, but I thought the book was alright.