Attentionattention, this is not a test! Tell everyone! Everyone you know in the cybernetoblogosphere! ‘Tis the season to be writing. Alot. And quickly. All in one month. Because it is November! Also known as a month entirely made of awesome due to NANOWRIMO!! Now for all of you depressing types who don’t know what NANOWRIMO is, see my fabulous acronym breakdown below:
NAtional
NOvel
WRiting
MOnth
I, Aella Siofra, will be participating this year, walking in the footsteps of the many brave typing sorts who have gone before me. So I hope you will check out my profile every so often and see how I’m coming along. But there is a sort of dilemma connected to this. I have two stories that I want to write and no way to choose between them. I am completely in love with twists on an old theme (when done correctly) So *snazzy used car salesman voice* it’s up to you!
Plot A) a sort of twisty Alice in Wonderland dystopia. Many years following Alice’s own adventures and It concerns the kidnapping of Alice’s nephew, Maximillian and the Mad Hatter’s child. A new political landscape for Wonderland and alot of intrigue and secrets
Plot B) Brothers Grimm weirdness. I don’t even know how to explain it, but it uses some elements of some of the stories and changes them until they barely bear sembelance to their usual selves. But. There are werewolves. And bandits. And a rather hardcore version of Little Red Riding Hood.
Leave your thoughts in the comments or I’ll be forced to choose all by myself. And I really don’t want to do that.
ALSO COMING UP THIS MONTH!!
The one year anniversary of the Maelstrom crew. Charybdis Book Blog, as you may know, is still being considered as a temporary location, if something should change with the Maelstrom situation. *sniff* I miss it so. But. This year we will be having our first contest ever and on the first anniversary as well. So be on the lookout. November 23rd is the day we consider the beginning. Observe the epic/not-so-epic first post if you will.
Back to business with reviewing. The flow has slowed quite a bit recently due to- dare we say it- life. I have read all of two books in two weeks. Ze horror! But! I have a stack of gorgeous copies just calling out to me for the reading and there will definitely be a more steady supply this month.
Thirdly, I’m working on rebuilding the link lists. If you would like to be included on our side bar and blog rrrrroll, then leave a comment and we’ll check out your blog as soon as possible. And try to remember that we are YA book centered.
Finally, I am resurrecting the myspace this month. I hope there are some new blogs out there with profiles that will consider friending us. It was one our best networking tools and I’m not even sure how I could have let it fade so sadly.
My apologies for that long and obnoxiously demanding post. Pleasepleasepleaseplease leave your thoughts on everything or anything in the comments. It would be much appreciated.
READING! FINALLY!
Aella Siofra
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November 2, 2008 at 12:32 am
Serafina Zane
Yay NaNo! I’m doing it as well. Really, I’m supposed to be doing it right now, which is why I’m on the internet. But then again, I did already exceed the daily minimum goal. What’s your username? I’m serafinazane.
Let’s hear it for crazy writing!
I almost had time to read in October, when I was between crazy goals, but now…I stare longingly at the getting-to-be-overdue pile.
Also, I vote B. Because WEREWOLVES PWN! And A reminds me of that series by someone or other that had potential but I didn’t really like at all. *title escaping me*
Happy early anniversary!
November 2, 2008 at 12:47 am
Eli
Plot B.
November 2, 2008 at 1:05 am
Reese
Ahh! Good luck Aella!
November 2, 2008 at 3:16 am
Virginia
I believe Serafina is referring to “The Looking Glass Wars,” (Which my personal opinion- LOVED the first book, and have yet to read the second, so we shall see). That was my first thought when I read your two story ideas as well.
However, every writer can make her fiction her own, so if that is the story that you feel, I say pursue it and own it.
I’ve always had a thing for the Brothers Grimm as well… I suppose pursue the one you would get the most enjoyment out of as well would stretch your creativity.
If nothing else, you could always toss a coin.
(Pardon my lack of cool teenage internet slang, as I am a mom pushing 30 who still loves YA fiction, thus the reading of your blog on Google Reader. I’ll go back now to my lurkdom.)
Good luck with your novel!
November 2, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Rae
TAG TAG TAG TAG TAG. (That’s me tagging you for a meme…)
November 3, 2008 at 12:30 am
khy
B b b b b b b! Werewolves!
November 3, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Aella
Oh wow. B it is!
November 5, 2008 at 2:53 am
Serafina Zane
Hooray for werewolves!
November 5, 2008 at 11:35 am
Emily
B!! definately B. and good luck! Gotta love NaNoWriMo (:
November 7, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Medeia
Oh, wow. I guess I’m a bit late reading this, aren’t I?
I would also like to apologize for neglecting the Charybdis as of late. However, I have been reading, so expect a large (make that MASSIVE) post on all of the books. Sometime.
Also, I’m not doing NaNoWriMo. I seriously considered it for all of… a few days. But then I sat down to try to write a short story or something as a preparatory exercise of sorts and realized that I can’t write. Soooooooo instead I’m NaNoIllMo-ing. No, I’m not sure if that actually exists, but it stands for National Novel Illustrating Month. You’ll never guess whose novel I’m doing *eyeroll*
Aella: You did expect me to think the title of this post like nananananaBATMAN! except with OWriMo… right? Because I did and it made me smile.
Virginia: You pwn. Your use of one of my favorite verbs in its noun form makes up for any lack of cool teenage internet slang.
Everybody else: Thank you for choosing B. Now I get to draw werewolves. *happiness ensues*
November 16, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Aella
Aaaaah. You know me far too well, Medeia. I did indeed aim to bring that most awesome of themes “Batman” to the Charybdis screen.
NANOILLMO!!! PERFECT!!!