I'm contagious!

So, one of my little brothers (not the singing one) came in my room last night and asked me if he could write a story and get a book published like me and Elli.  Let's call him... Lee.  He came up with this story idea titled "Get Lost!" about this kid getting kidnapped, escaping, but then going the complete opposite way from home as he tries to go home.  This character, Luckas Tarrington (I helped come up with the name) has the worst sense of direction ever which is really funny since Lee has the best sense of direction.  Like one time, we were going to my dad's mom's house for Christmas, and my dad accidentally turned to go toward my mom's mom's cabin, and Lee was the one who caught the mistake.  At like, age 4.  I'm not kidding.  When I drive him around, I still confirm with him that we're on the right road.

So anyway, now I've gotten my brother and my sister into writing, and my other brother (the singing one... let's call him Gus) asked me about this writing club I started last year and if we really were going to do it.  So now Gus is writing a story about a kid named Matthew who loses his skateboard.

So since I have now infected all of my siblings with NaNoWriMo, I have decided to make NaStoWriWe, National Story Writing Week, to take place over the winter break.  It'll be so fun.

Oh, yeah, and Lee came up with the best title for my novel.  Instead of Written in the Stars which is already a song, he suggested Beyond the Stars.  Which is awesome, but there's already a story about an astronaut by the same name, so I might have to tweak it a bit.  It's awesome!  Love Beyond the Stars maybe?

let me know what you think!
 and I shall be posting bloopers of my attempts to sing "Defying Gravity" on youtube soon... should be funny!

Already looking forward to next NaNo.... *sigh*

Okay, I'm really sad that NaNoWriMo is officially over... I mean, I'm not, because now I can actually do my homework and clean my room... but noveling was so much fun!  Way more fun than working on my term paper for English... which is what I should be doing now...

My favorite part of my novel is this: (Narrator has been missing for two years and now his family thinks he is dead and he's at his own funeral)

            We came in the musician’s door and went up to the choir loft.  I used to do praise and worship for mass and youth group, so I knew this area pretty well.  There were all these pictures of me from two years ago up on the altar with a lot of candles and flowers.  I cannot even begin to describe how surreal it is to be at your own funeral – even if it really is more of a memorial service.

            “Eternal rest grant unto him, Oh Lord,” our priest, Father Timothy, intoned.

            “And let perpetual light shine upon him,” the congregation responded.

            “May he rest in peace.”

            I couldn’t help it.  I mean, how many times does a guy get to go to his own funeral in his lifetime?  Not many, I’ll tell you that.  I’m sorry.  I pulled a Tom Sawyer.  From my position in the choir loft, I yelled, interrupted the ceremony.  “Hey, guys?”  Everyone turned around and strained to see.  “I’m not dead!”

I'm a dork, but I already know what I'm doing for next NaNoWriMo: The Heart Inside (working title)
a retelling of Beauty and the Beast where "Beauty" (named Calista- "Callie") sees beauty as how we look on the inside.... makes the tale of the Beast much more interesting... just bits and pieces of ideas, but I know Callie is a daddy's girl, and has two older sisters named Aurelia and Briony (sp?) and loves reading.  Like me- minus older sisters...


Speaking of sisters, mine won the YWP NaNo!  She did 6,376 words of a long short story called The Magic Skates.  It's actually really good and follows a nice, simple, easy to follow plot about a girl named Caroline Pattinare who finds a pair of skates that once belonged to a famous skater that make her an amazing skater, but then Kristal steals them... in the middle of a show... It's really cute!

I shall post a summary of my novel later when I actually figure out how to explain my complicated novel in a few paragraphs, and then I will need help naming it... and onto National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo) Just made that up =D

I love my sister... and I'm having a wonderful day

Sooo... I had this plot problem in my story involving twins named Shepherd and Orion.  Orion, aka Rion, had snuck off to fight the bad guy Therottier and never came back, leaving his twin devastated.  I wasn't sure how I was going to fit this in my story, because I didn't want Rion to die, but I didn't want it to be cliche, either.  I was telling my sister this and she said three words to me that changed my life:

"That Maleficus thing"

So Maleficus is the REAL bad guy, not Therottier, and he can shape shift.  He will pretend to be the person closest to your heart and then put himself in danger.  If you save him "person you love" then you have to be his slave forever, it's like a magic spell or something.

So that's what happened to Rion.

My sister was the one to come up with the name Keidreiy as well.  I said, "Give me a name for a kingdom starting with... K."
And she said, "Kidri." (key DREE)  And then I screwed with the spelling and hence Keidreiy was born.
I would die without my little sister.  She's my dose of sanity.  Love ya, Elli!  (not her real name... she didn't want me to use her real name on my blog, so as far as you're concerned, she's Elli)

I am having a wonderful day.  I woke up this morning at 5:30, took a shower, got my hair to behave, had a pumpkin pancake for breakfast, was early, so I went downstairs to check my school email and discovered that my math class was cancelled!!! YAY!!!  (escpecially since I spent the entire weekend doing NaNo and did not do my math homework, so DOUBLE YAY!!!)  I then proceeded to discover that my scarf matched my shirt - (like exactly- it's kinda creepy) and I had chocolate soy milk... (I'm lactose intolerant - I can have milk, but unless I take a lactase pill beforehand, I get sick to my stomach)... and it was really good, which is saying a lot because it's soy milk. 

Oh, and did I mention my word count?  Yeah, that did wonders for my mood this morning: 42,424.  I'm going to make it, people!!!!!