Monday, June 27, 2011

Crunch Time

All right, I know it is insane but I think I'm going to try Camp NaNo anyway, even though I have no time at all to dedicate to it. I am not the type of person to just give up, especially where NaNo is concerned. I guess that means that this is crunch time. I have an entire novel to finish re-outlining in the next three days. Can I do it? Who knows! I am definitely going to try my best though!

~Krys

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Camp NaNoWriMo

You know, I don't know why I thought that doing Camp NaNoWriMo this summer would actually work, but now that I know it is starting on the 1st of July, I've decided to toss in the hat. In July I not only have my first vacation of the summer (July 2-5) that I'm going to visit family, but also on the 20th I'm flying out to Kansas to go to my brother's wedding and I won't be back home until the beginning of August. I'm really bummed because I am so ready to start "Wolf" and I really don't want to wait until November to do it, but unless I write 7500 words a day, I won't be able to do it. I dunno... should I try anyway?

~Krys

Friday, June 17, 2011

Blocks

You know, just when I was starting to think that this idea was too good to fall apart I start seeing little holes. Not big enough to convince me to give up, but definitely big enough to ask me where in the heck I think I am going with my plots (or lack thereof). Is it frustrating to anyone else to realize that all of your great ideas are really brilliant, but without a central plot to weave them together... well, I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at. I just wish I could figure out what is motivating each of my characters in this story, all the things they have told me so far are weak excuses and they aren't going to stand on their own very well. I guess I'm going to have to take each of my characters into therapy and figure out what is going on with them. Maybe I will finally figure out if I have a villain or a plot, rather than a bunch of things that happen randomly.

~Krys

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Outlining

I can't believe how much work I have gotten done on the first book in the "Wolf" trilogy this week! I must have 10 different Google docs full of outlines, scene ideas, character sheets and all sorts of other goodies that make writing a book so much fun! My goal is to have the entire first book outlined before "Camp NaNoWriMo" starts sometime this summer. I would love to have something this ridiculously fun to work on for a NaNo project :D

I guess my next big project is finishing up the outline and getting a playlist done to help set the mood I'm looking for with this first story. I haven't had this much fun writing something in a long time! Aiden is absolutely overjoyed that I'm finally listening to something he has to say.

~Krys

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Writing writing writing

It's really nice to have a muse, especially when they are active. Unfortunately for me right now, Aiden has been a little TOO active. I can barely sleep at night anymore because he spends hours whispering ideas to me. It's great to have all the ideas, the problem is that by the time I wake up half of them are gone. I'm beginning to think Aiden is becoming a big tease!

Seriously though, I've never been as excited about a story idea as I am now. I can barely get any work done on the outline for the first book before I start thinking of things that would be amazing to add to the other two. It's a frustrating process, but I'm determined that I will get everything I'm thinking about on paper eventually. I just hope it doesn't take the rest of my life (and a lifetime of sleepless nights) to get it all done.

~Krys

Saturday, June 4, 2011

"Wolf"

I just wanted to let everyone know that yesterday's post wasn't a fluke. I've actually been spending all day researching my new story and outlining the trilogy and characters that will be involved in each story. I haven't been this happy in months!

~Krys

Friday, June 3, 2011

Changes and Inspirations

Earlier this week, Jon and I moved from Utah down to Austin, Texas where Jon was offered a job. It's been a big transition for us (mostly the fact that it's so dang hot here!) but already I'm feeling like everything will work out okay.

It's funny how a movie, book or song can bring about inspirations in the lives of writers, but I've never experienced it as strongly as I have this week. I thought that my desire to write crime novels was an all encompassing passion... but I've barely been able to concentrate on all my previous ideas from the moment that I saw "The 10th Kingdom" earlier this week.

Now, I have to admit that I've never loved any show (or movie) quite as much as I love this mini-series, but it wasn't the show itself that inspired me. The character of "Wolf" was so interesting to me that I've been able to think of little else since I first saw his face on screen. No, this isn't a movie-star crush, it's the fact that his character was so dynamic and just plain interesting that I feel a burning desire to give him more life.

Originally my idea started out as a fanfiction, but the scope of the idea was just so massive that I could never be satisfied sharing this story with just a few people (a minuscule amount) that are in this fandom. My head was reeling as soon as the final credits rolled across the screen "what had happened to Wolf and Virginia, their children?" It was that thought that led me to come up with a series of stories about the children I imagine them to have, all proving themselves while dealing with the problems of being different than others. Hopefully I'll be able to pull this off so that fans of the series will see the "winks and nudges" and grin, but that I won't actually infringe on the copyright.

Well, I guess I will just have to see how it goes. Goodnight all, may you have pleasant dreams... I know I will.

~Krys