| | I LIVE!!!!
Or at least, I live here during NaNo season. ;)
Now that the play is over ("Measure for Measure" - I was Isabella, and 'twas wonderful!), I actually have time to think about NaNo. And not a minute too soon, considering that it's, um, kind of November already. Especially because I still haven't finished Keeper of the Emerald, whose sequel, Bearer of the Sapphire, I was planning to write this month.
BUT! I have a plan. I'll just add the end of Keeper of the Emerald, however many words that turns out to be, to my final NaNo word count. That way I'll have extra motivation to FINISH the damn thing. (It's been a year, after all.) And the end really is in sight, which is even better. I've gotten them to Erilon, the island where most of the remaining First population lives, and I've slipped in a bit of unease, which will of course burst into full-blown havoc by the end.
We shall see how it all turns out...
I must confess, though, I'm rather keen on starting Bearer of the Sapphire. Marrach's a fun guy, and I can't WAIT to pit him against Mirasi and watch the fireworks! It really is going to be rather pyrotechnic - he doesn't take crap from anyone, not even Serrav, who's four years older than him and has saved his butt on numerous occasions, and Mirasi's both mischievous and no-nonsense, so the two of them... oy. But fun oy! Oh, the love lives of Our Heroes. Yalanna and Serrav are kind of "Pride and Prejudice"-esque - the attraction's been there from the start, but they've had to go through an entire book of verbal sparring and why-the-hell-should-I-trust-you-with-my-life moments. (Sorry about that, you two.) Marrach and Mirasi - what I'm hoping for there is this instant chemistry, but he's much more interested than she is. Plus she's the one who knows everything he needs to know, from survival tips to how to extract the Sapphire, and he's trying to learn all that and woo her at the same time. Jarven and Elasia will be, I think, the most poignant couple. I'm going to do even worse by them than I did by Yalanna and Serrav. Not only will she fall head over heels from the moment she sees him, but he's going to have the hots for her sister (against his own better judgment) for a good portion of the book, and I'm planning to write their relationship as a wow-that-came-so-close-to-not-happening thing. Plus the added angst of her father trying to kill him and everything. Tulis is too young as yet to meet the love of her life. She's only thirteen. Granted, Jarven's only going to be sixteen when he meets Elasia, but still. Tulis is also the most emotionally fragile of the Berenathim. She'll take a good long while before she trusts anyone outside her family with her heart.
Woo... long ramble. But now I'm even more psyched for NaNo! |
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