St Lou and Black Beauty

I don't know what St Lou told you but he has some explaining to do. Let me tell you what he did to Black Beauty.
He filled her heart  with words of love. He made her believe in happily ever after.
Yeah St. Lou got some explaining to do.
I don't know what St Lou told you but St Lou  stole13 hours and a 8 hundred miles from Black Beauty.
He promised her the son and took him back.
I don't know what St Lou told you but he kicked her out in the middle of the night and never once called to see if she was alright.
yeah St Louis broke black beauty's heart but she gonna be alright.

I'm Writing with NaNoWriMo!

I'm writing! I'm participating in NaNoWriMo this year. Seriously participating this year. So maybe the novel that has been swimming in my head for years will finally come to fruition. Even if it's never published I can finally say I wrote it.

One of the things NaNoWriMo suggest is to upload a book cover. It's supposed to increase your chances of winning. Winning = finishing. I'm all for doing things that will help me finally accomplish this goal. So I designed what my concept of the cover for my book. My name on a book cover certainly looks good. Don't you think?!

Well that's all for now. Gotta save the writing bug for where it counts. 

What's In a Name?

I have decided to get serious about writing that book. The one that I have been writing for the last - oh I don't know how many - years. 

I'm taking all that I have learned from all the writing workshops I have attended and doing it "right". My first step was to create full character profiles.

What I have learned is that names are important. I have first names for all my characters. My two main characters don't have last names and it's not as easy to give them one. Since I have been playing the "I am writing a book" game for so long I never really thought about it before now.

Now that I have fully committed to this project I feel like I did when I needed to name my children. I didn't just pull out their names out of a hat. I see it the same for my characters. I wanted their names to mean something.

As for my secondary characters, I didn't think I needed to give the secondary characters last names. They are in the story as an annoyance to the heroine. I wanted them to be insignificant – in the story to create havoc for the main characters but even as I think about them now I see that thought was wrong too. Whether I mention their whole names in the story or not, I feel a strong need to have one in their character profile.

What's in a name? More than I thought it seems. 

More to come in my journey to complete my first book tentatively titled Frustrated.