Hey Wrimo's! What I can say? It's day 4 and I'm ready to quit but I won't. I know a lot of people depend on me as I them! So, my current word count thus far is 7029. Not bad, right? I have a friend that has already hit her 10k mark already!! I know, and she's in grad school too! I'm writing a novel called Jawbreakers and I must say that I am loving the YA genre. I wrote a book called Tears of Joy which was my first YA book. I was very excited to try something different. I think that YA is my niche. But other's say that Erotica is. What genre do you like to write? I feel that the YA genre is SO under rated it's crazy. I started to read YA when I started my group on Facebook, Books the Young Adult way. There is an author by the name of Shelia Gross aka Sparkle and she wrote this book called Sade's Secret. My reading group had voted on her book. I wasn't expecting to love it. I mean I really never read books in the YA genre before so I didn't know what to expect. Thanks to Shelia, I've grown to love it.
Back to Nano! Sorry, I can be ALL over the place at times! But, I did the Nano that they had in August and I must say that it really helped me stay on track. My camp mates weren't worth a damn in helping me so I had to be my own cheerleader. Hey, it happens! Some people aren't as excited as I can be about writing. Look, I get it I have my days too! No harm, no foul. When I first started writing Jawbreakers it was called Back Stabbers. The more that I was writing I knew that I wanted to two main characters to try and go through a hard time in high school. With the bullying epidemic being so well known now, I wanted to have some hazing and bullying going on. What better way to have a group call themselves a bad ass name like " Jawbreakers". There is a movie out called The Jawbreakers but they aren't a gang or anything. They are a group of girls going around being school sluts and one innocent ends up witnessing them disposing a dead body of a classmate so she had to be sucked in. No, my novel won't have any gruesome things in it....that I know of, but with me you never know! I hope that everyone who is participating in Nano are having a good time. LOL....okay I had to laugh at that last sentence. Nano is horrible if you don't prepare yourself and work on time maintenance. Here is a calendar that HELPS me a lot, and it's funny too:
This is like a god send to me! I can stay on track with my word count and write ahead if I need too.
Here is my new baby that I'm working on:
Synopsis of Jawbreakers:
Zoela Best is
the new girl at school. Trying to get used to the new school and people she
meets Vincenza Catucci. They are two peas in a pod until the
"Jawbreakers" make their presence known and tortures the girls with
bullying and hazing. Vincenza and Zoela are asked to be a Jawbreaker and the
two are ecstatic. But, the leader has a trick up her sleeve to turn the two
girls into frenemies. Will they see the danger ahead or will they put an end to
the Jawbreakers once and for all?
Excerpt of Jawbreakers:
It’s the
next day of school and I decided to wear blue skinny jeans with a red shirt
that said I’m awesome and some red flat shoes to match. I put my red hair up in
a tony tail with some hair hanging down to the side. I was so excited when I
was sitting in homeroom talking to one of the other students about The Great
Gasby.
“ Hey Zoe,
do you think this book is hard?” Romana asked.
“ It is a
little bit but you have to take your time to read each chapter. What works for
me that I take notes on each chapter so that I can understand it.”
“ Ok, thanks
Zoe.” She said smiling at me and looking at the book.
“ Your
welcome.”
I sat at my
desk waiting for the teacher to take role and I was looking for Vincenza.
Moments went by and in walks my friend.
“ Hey Zoe.”
She said as we greeted each other with a hug.
I was happy
because for a minute I didn’t think that she was coming to school.
My first Ya Novel available on Kindle, Nook, BN.com, and Amazon:
Synopsis of Tears of Joy:
Arvind Jenkins and Joy
Evans are a match made in heaven. These high school sweethearts are destined to
be together forever, but Arvind has a secret that may bring Joy to tears. Will
Joy fight for the love of her life, or will she end up alone?
Synopsis of Sades Secret:
There's nothing sweet about turning sixteen as three friends will soon
find out. Fifteen-year-old Sade Washington has been harboring a secret from her
two best friends, Crystal Jackson and Dena Bradford. Her secret is threatened
to be revealed when she discovers she's pregnant. Once Sade's secret is out, it
causes a wedge between her and her mother Joyce. Distraught at her mother's
reactions, Sade toils with a love/hate relationship with her. Joyce struggles
with keeping peace in her household. The relationship between her daughter and
live-in boyfriend, Calvin has her in an emotional turmoil. Joyce is determined
to make their home a happy one by any means necessary. Sade attempts to have a
normal teen life, but as she turns sixteen, reality hits her head on. She must
make choices that will not only affect her future, but that of her unborn
child. Sade's Secret takes the reader on an emotional ride as it deals with a
strong subject matter and the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships.
FYI: If you would like to join my YA group on Facebook, please do! https://www.facebook.com/groups/authorkrystolplace/
Nano's we can complete this journey together!! We can do it!! Don't give up!! Let the world read your creative mind through a book!!
