DEMON WOLVES! DEMON WOLVES!

Guess what? Rough Draft #2 of The Hungry Hungry Games (authored by: yours truly!) is nearly done! I'm trying super hard to finish it by June 1st, the deadline for our CreateSpace novels. Quick lowdown for those who have no idea what I'm talking about: I participated in NaNoWriMo's Young Writer's Program this year, and if you finished your goal (mine was 30,000 words) before November 30th, you win 5 free copies of your novel from CreateSpace, a self-publishing website. Anyways (Oh, whatever, I'll say it anyway[s]!), The Hungry Hungry Games is not my ORIGINAL novel but still one deserving of it's own copy.

Here's a little sampling of me and my best friend, for whom I wrote it, trying to describe it to our book club. BEWARE: It makes no sense whatsoever.

Me: It's this novel about some tyrannical gamemakers named Milton and Bradley who give special drugs to 24 lucky humans, turning them into hippo mutants. Then the mutants are placed in an arena for a FIGHT to the DEATH!
Friend: What were the two main characters named?
Me: Hale and Leigh.
Friend: There's also some pineapple quicksand...
Me: Don't forget the demon wolves!
Friend: Oh, yeah! Or the rock!
Me: Ah yes, the rock. Or the murderer.
Friend: Named Buck!
Me: The two main hippos were named Nyssa and Pete. Nyssa's a jerk. I don't like her.
Friend: You're just mean. She wasn't the villain-- Claudia was.
Me: Oh yeah, she tied up the tour guide named Ashley in a tree!
Friend: Didn't she tie up the old man with the banana hat too?
Me: Ben Ben the Lizard Man!
Friend: Ah, that magical rock! Wait, when did Pete give it to them again?
Me: In the mud pits, remember when the bugs were singing "It's A Small World After All"?
Friend: Oh, yes.
Me: When Hale and Leigh got their jumpsuits.
Friend: And Hale's said "I'm a Beliber" on it!"

Ah, yes... well, this is paraphrased just a tad (she'd kill me for saying anything different), but you get the gist of my short story now, right?

Ahem. Maybe not.

Look for "The Hungry Hungry Games" on bookshelves near you soon!

I wish... Suzanne Collin's agent would probably kill me...

Got to go... Scholastic Press is trying to knock down the door.

Wow! NaNoWriMo Epicness

So, whoa, NaNo's over and I am writed-out.
It was epic.
And I am SO glad it's over!
At 30,337 words, I barely made it! At least I got to put in my word count... I had some buddies who didn't 'win' because they didn't validate in time. :( So sad. But I am DONE, D-O-N-E done. At least, with NaNoWriMo, not my novel, The Supreme Lord. Here's the cover an awesome someone did for me on NaNo's original site:

Fantastic, no?
Anyways, I have about 20k to go... wish me luck and so so sorry I've been neglecting you!

Peace out,
The Writeress

PS As an afternote, just wanted to direct readers to my charrie shop, where I'm drawing pencil sketches of Wrimo users' characters. sketchwriteress.blogspot.com

NaNoWriMo is almost here!

I am SO FREAKIN' EXCITED! My username is The Writeress on ywp.nanowrimo.org, and I am always open to new members!

Go to my page to read my story 'seed'. Actually, I'll just post it right here.

Well, there's this guy named Grant... and this girl named Katherine (or Coach, as she is affectionately called), then this pyromaniac named Hector? Howard? Not sure yet. then there's this villainous teacher named... ideas?! Anyone?! And something witty, please. I am open for comments. :) Then there's another girl named Maureen (or Maurice? I need help, people!) who has a crush on Grant, only Grant is dating the popular girl you is actually only an evil supervillain who is a... um... robot. Her name is... ideas? Katherine has this weird 'gift' that she can very easily pre-think-out game plans for the high school's sport, Baddock. She transmits the plans to Grant through an earpiece. Until one day her game-planning goes wrong, and the field blows up and Grant goes missing. But he's not dead. Oh, no. The evil teacher and girl have taken him, because they believe he is an.... DUM DUM DUMMMM.... ALIEN!!! Oh, yes! Oh yeah, there's also going to be a lot of books, Portal guns, stick men, insane people floating through space, giant turtles, and I plan to use every single 'I Dare You' NaNo writing tip there is. Oh, yes. It will be EPIC. And hopefully humorous. You'll have to let me know.

Anyone else counting down to NaNo? Give a shout-out here!