I DID IT!

Can you believe it?!?!?!

I didn't get to 80k but I feel like the story is good :)

Walking Dead is done!

Now for editing. Later.

Its been a while...

Hey guys!

The last time I posted this was when I finished Nano. After Nano my goal was to write ten thousand words perday so I could be done with the book by now but.... that didn't happen. I have been super busy lately and just didn't feel like writing. I found out a good excuse for my book to be the way I want it to be so I now want to finish.

I just passed 60k so if I write 10k in these next two weeks, I could be finished by 2011! I really like the sound of this so I'm going to do it. During Nano, I forced myself to write everyday so I will just have to force myself to write again.

I was thinking it would be awesome to be published some time in 2011 but baby steps. First, finish the damn book. Second, send it to Andrea to see what she thinks. Third, contact small publishers to hope hope hope, they would be interested in my book. Fourth, (during step 3) figure out what I want to write next and start writing it!

I really want to do this guys and I hope I can!

On the sidebar, you can see my word update!

In which I party!

I did it!

I DID IT!!!!

I won NanoWrimo! I finished I finished!

I won with 50,059 but my personal goal is 80k so I still have a lot to write!!!

NanoWrimo LeilaniLovesBooks

More writing to do!

In which I pull out the party stuff

Hey all!!

So sorry I havn't been posting lately, but thats cause i've been writing like crazy!

Today I hit 36,000 words on day 16 which means I have 14 more days to write 14,000 more words!

I am almost there!

I won't be posting until I get to 50,000 which I hope is very soon!

For those NanoWrimo peoples, friend me @Leilani Loves Books

Wish me luck all!

Advice for today:

When writing, stay away from Twitter. Trust me. I took this advice today and actually wrote quick!

In which I celebrate

Hello all!

Ive been saving my first post for this!

I passed 25000 words!

Yay! Throws confetti!

If some of you have no idea what im talking about, im talking about NanoWrimo!

That means im 50% done!

I only have a little time so I hope to finish! If I dont, well that sucks but I will finish this book. Though Nano technically only wants you to write 50000 words, my goal for this book is 80000 so we shall see how that goes.

Im starting Ch 14 on page 100 so im pretty excited.

Now I leave you with an excerpt:

I turned the faucet, tested the water, splashed my face and rubbed roughly. The person looking back at me from the mirror was not me, for a moment it looked like the old me. The confident, bitchy, beautiful me. I blinked away the drops of water dripping down my face, when I looked again, she was gone. It was the plain, scared, shy new me. I forced the thought of the old me coming back out of my mind, not wanting to ponder on the thought.

This is still to be edited by me editor *winks* so it will most likely change later.

Going to write more.

See ya!

Writing Fun and Being an Editor

Bonjour.

So I figured I would start out by introducing you all to my to-be-novel Conversion if I ever get it started. I do have it started, but I just can't get the time to write it. Since well I'm also the editor of my school's paper and an officer in a bunch of clubs. But back to Conversions, you can see the actual summary on the story page. But here's the quick outline.

1. The main characters names are as followed: Lynette, Wuther and Wuther's Daughter, Kiki.

2. Lynette is a teacher, and went to high school with Wuther and is in love with him.

3. Wuther is a park ranger and something else put i'm not going to say it.

4. Kiki isn't a normal 6 year old, and she's home schooled at the current moment

5. Wuther's brother Rhys is evil, and is the "villian"

6. There are a whole lot of more "minor-minor" characters, like brothers and sisters and cousins and aunts and uncles and more.

7. Lynette eventually sees Wuther again after moving back to Plancey (the small town)

8. Thats about it basically, except I don't really want to go into much more detail right now...

Yes this novel-to-be is Paranormal I suppose.... I'm not sure just yet. But there is romance, action, mystery and other stuff involved in my mind right now. I've had this story in my head after a dream at the end of sophomore year, so yes I've had a lot of thoughts about it since then.

The other thing I mentioned up there about being the Editor for my school's paper yah here's a few things that aggravates me:

1. PEOPLE NOT GETTING THEIR ARTICLES IN ON TIME. I mean I'm still waiting for one, and it's been past due for about a week. Thank god the paper isn't due till the end of this week... And it's on dress code and the advisor wants to publish it.

2. People not proof reading.

3. People not even caring about what they write.

4. Including "I" in an article written by two people! Really "we" should be used. And basically I don't think "we" should be used at all because articles most of the time shouldn't be from your perspective.

5. Writing in fragmented sentences in an article (but yah this is practically fragmented sentences here in this post but in a real newspaper you don't see them).

This ended up as a rant but you other editors know the feeling...

So Ta Ta For Now,

Andrea

P.S. If you watch Glee, I guessed it! I've always seen something different in that football player.

Welcome!

Welcome to Twin Troubles,

Here at Twin Troubles you will find, writings by two different people.Who are so far away, yet so alike. Ones a senior and the other a freshman.  You will find posts about writing in general and maybe a post or two about our writing specifically. Or a passage from our novels-to-be most possibly.  Writing can be very difficult at times and you feel like you want to give up, but that doesn’t mean give up but maybe talk to someone about it for a while. And that's the reason for Twin Troubles so we can talk about problems in writing, or for you to help us with our writing. So check out some of the other pages for more information about us or our novels-to-be!

We hope you enjoy your time at Twin Troubles and we hope to see you often!

Ta Ta For Now.
Andrea & Leilani