{"id":1357,"date":"2011-11-01T03:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:56:04","slug":"nanowrimo-2011-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/nanowrimo-2011-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanowrimo 2011 Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>So it’s another year, another National Novel Writing Month<\/a>. This year, what was supposed to be my first YA (young adult) novel, HEX CODE<\/a>. Actually, I’ve already started one called STRANDED, which makes me feel even better about tacking this new genre. <\/p>\n

A sneak preview of the first young adult novel featuring the mathemagical weretiger Cinnamon Frost, adopted daughter of the magical tattoo artist Dakota Frost:<\/p>\n

\nIt sucks trying to do your homework when you\u2019ve turned into a tiger. It\u2019s not that your body turns two sizes too big for your chair, that your balance goes so you can\u2019t stand, or even that your claws are so sharp that you could punch straight through a keyboard.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the little things. Big cats are nearsighted, so you need big old dorky \u201ctiger\u201d glasses you can barely get on once your hands have gone to claws. And we\u2019re predators, reflexes tied to movement, so I has to fight smashing the screen every time my mouse pointer moves.<\/p>\n

And turning into a tiger hurts like getting pummeled with a thousand bars of soap in socks, so the only thing I really want to do after the Change is gnaw on someone, regardless of whether I have three papers all due tomorrow morning.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The material above is actually from the 1500 words of “seed” material I started prior to National Novel Writing Month. I always start with a seed, be it 500 words or 10,000, but commit to fulfilling the Nano challenge by doing 50,000 additional<\/em> words. This year my final target, counting the seed, is 51544 words. Time to climb that mountain!<\/p>\n

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Already 1129 words into the challenge (not<\/em> counting the seed). Go Team Centaur!<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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