Sneak Peek of the Illustration

Kiery sent me a picture of her illustration design ideas (which are fantastic) so I thought I'd share one - I can't wait to see the rest!

Checklist

Book Written/Drafted: Check

Illustrator found: Check

Final Edit:

Funny thing, I was playing World of Warcraft and I was mumbling in the trade channel about an illustrator and Kiery sent me a tell and a link to her art blog (which I checked out after the raid) and things just sort of fell into place from there. I'm super excited and can't wait to see what she comes up with!

Story Board

Finished copying the draft over and making some minor edits. I'm taking a break from editing to give my mind a rest and working on storyboarding and figuring out where I want to go illustration wise so I know what to ask for.

I decided to plan it out on my white board, so I put the sticky notes with the list of pictures on the side and made some sketches to get an idea of how it would fit on the page. I think I'm going to try for a Winnie the Pooh type of integration. 

Word Count: 1,283

Last night, I started typing up the book and editing. I wrote the first two parts and counted the words for NaNoWriMo - 1,283. I was surprised. I would have kept going but I started making too many typos to keep up with so I just left it there.

Who knows, maybe I'll get closer to 50k than I thought! I wasn't anticipating having more than maybe 1000 words....I'm not great with numbers.  I may try to finish the rest of it today, but I'm not sure how far I'll get. I'm leaving spaces for pictures in between and made sticky note markers in my notebook of what illustrations I want so I'll have everything ready when I find an illustrator. :)

First Draft Done

Whew. Finished my first draft. it was way more emotionally exhausting than I anticipated, but I'm glad...they say it's a good thing when writers are in tears by their writing, right?

 Onward to the next part now (after I wipe my tear stains off the paper - I showed it to my boyfriend and he was like, hey, stop making me cry!) - editing rounds, also I need to pick out which parts I want illustrated and find an illustrator. I'm really happy with my progress so far, who thought being sick for over a week could be so productive?

Almost There

I'm almost at the end of the first draft! By that I mean, I have to figure out how to write the ending. I know exactly how it ends and the feel I want it to convey, I just need to get there. I don't think the headache I've had all day is aiding that process, but I think I might be able to get some of it done while I watch the election returns.

NaNo-ish

Today marks the first day of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I've never done NaNo before, and I signed up for it, for fun, to keep me motivated with my book, but I'm not planning on writing 50k words. Although, I may come close to that depending on how many re-writes I do.

So, my goal for NaNoWriMo is to get through my book, if I do that, I'll have won. I have a link on the sidebar - well actually it's the picture, that takes you to my NaNo page where you'll be able to keep up with my progress. I don't have any words yet, because I'm still in my notebook phase, but I should have it moved over by the end of the week.

Can I finish and possibly publish (or find an illustrator for) my book in a month? Hopefully.