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NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH

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• Nov. 1st, 2013 at 12:17 PM

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Book Review The Dark Citadel by Jane Dougherty

The Dark Citadel (The Green Woman) by Jane Dougherty

 

 

The apocalypse has happened. The Earth is a wasteland. The survivors, the known survivors, live inside a crystal dome where life is controlled.

There are other survivors, though. Demons, angels, old gods, or the radiation mutated. Their names depend on who tells the story. They all want what's inside the dome.

They want Her.

Deborah.

Problem is, no one inside the dome wants her. Father is in prison. Mother is gone. Deborah is unruly and outspoken, something that is forbidden in a society that is ruled with cruelty and an iron fist.

The most horrible thing of all is that she keeps seeing things - like green grass, singing birds, people laughing and caring for one another. Those are things forbidden as well.

There is only one solution for Deborah.

Go outside the dome.

The Dark Citadel (The Green Woman) Part One of Three is, by the age of the protagonists, a young adult novel. Teenagers and Adults are the audience. Jane Dougherty creates a multi-dimensional world layered with suspense, danger and most surprisingly, a social commentary that not only entertains but provokes thought as well.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was and is a social commentary that became a children's book. Perhaps, The Dark Citadel trilogy by Jane Dougherty will be this generation's young adult's book that becomes a social commentary.

It is well written and absorbing. Anyone who reads The Green Woman, which is part one, will be anxious to continue the saga with the rest of the trilogy.

 

Joined NaNoWriMo. Getting back into the Writing World.
Novel Title "The Perfect Gift."
Violet loves unusual gifts and unusual parties so when her friends, all except Maggie who has no sense of adventure, buy strange antiques from a spooky antique shop, she is thrilled. Instead of making her own birthday day wish when she blows out the candle, Violet insists that everyone make a wish for themselves based on the gift they brought.
Add spilt wine, a cut finger and lit candles and you have the perfect combination for everyone to disappear. Everyone except Maggie. She bought a bath set from a normal store. She is left alone. She finds the Antique store and the weird looking owner who gives her a compass and a leather pouch.
"Use these and you will find your friends." the owner tells her. No other instructions. No other pointers.
Maggie, who has no sense of adventure and no idea where to start, has to find her friends who are who-knows-where.

Saying Good Bye

 

I said Good Bye to a wonderful man on June 4, 2011

Kenneth Wayne Leatherman 63, passed away Saturday June 4, 2011. Ken was born Oct. 28, 1947 in Fort Worth, TX. He served in the U.S. Marines. He like reading, working on Volkswagens, photos, cameras and trying get-rich-quick ideas.
HE IS REMEMBERED FOR MUCH MORE AND MISSED GREATLY.

 

 

I am putting this here for those of you who followed my blog and wondered what happened. He fought valiantly and passed peacefully. It has taken me two years to "get over it" and start writing again. However, life goes on and I am once again at the computer.
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100 Words in 100 Days

I am a member of Coffee Time Romance site. Granted I am a very inactive member, but every now and then I get notifications of seminars and so forth.
This week I got a notification of a seminar called Nuts & Bolts of Writing Better presented by Robyn DeHart. It is presented in the form of several posts. Today I read Day 2. The title is Tough Love and Setting Goals.
The article is self-explained by the title. Determine what you're wasting your time on. Determine how much do you really want to be a published writer. Set goals. Break big goals into small bite-sized goals.
Not any new information.
Important information but not new.
One of the "this is my type of goals" Ms. DeHart mentioned was writing 100 words in 100 days.
Now that is a goal I can keep. Sometimes the idea of finishing a book is daunting. After all it can take a year to finish a 400 page book. Committing a year to a project is something that can kick your knees out from under you. I mean, I can't even commit to staying in an exercise program for a year.
But writing a simple 100 words for the short period of 100 days is do-able.
So today is Day 1 and my first 100 words.
Well, not my first 100 words on a novel but my first 100 words in this 100 day goal, challenge, pursuit. Whatever it is called.

Update on Ken - More strokes, more loss, and loss of part of his foot due to gangrene. Yucky things happening to a wonderful man.