With a week out of school ahead of me, I ran to my nearest library (school) to check out a few books, and was once again overwhelmed by the stock. My school's library is one of those places that all book nerds long for, but to tell everyone the truth here, I don't quite know what to do with it. There's just so much selection, I don't even know where to start.

Luckily enough for me, I managed to grab Pivot Point, by Kasie West, recognizing her name from her blog, which I had seen before.

Via

(And besides, isn't that cover a beauty?)

The synopsis engaged me. A girl who could see the impact of ever choice she made, and what would happen if she chose the other route? Positively intriguing. All of it reminded me of a particular quote by Oscar Wilde:

The suspense is terrible,

I hope it lasts.

 

It was good. So good that I finished it on my first day of vacation. Whoops.

 

But onto the story. The whole book hinges around a girl, Addie, who can seen what effects will come from every choice she makes, something that ends up a blessing and a curse, particularly when her parents announce that they are getting a divorce, and her father wants to move outside the compound the houses people like them, and move to the outside world.

 

The majority of the book actually happens during her search on which decision to make, stay with her Mom on the compound, or experience what the outside world is like.

 

And to tell you all the truth, the whole thing was just wow. I have a feeling I'll be reading a lot more of Miss Kasie, and I hope that you will all join me.

 

And by the way, Happy Halloween to everyone!

NaNoWriMo: The Prequel

So, somewhere along the way I decided that the best way for me to start writing a blog was to start by writing a journal for NaNoWriMo. As if writing 50,000 words in a month wasn't hard enough already.

In retrospect, this may not have been the best idea. Particularly considering the fact that I'm going to get a late start this year, with fall break starting at the same time, and therefore vacation as well. Which means that buying Pages for my iPad is slowly starting to look like a better and better option, even if Scrivener is supposedly working on making their signature app perfectly compatible with the iPad.

It's a struggle, isn't it?

Nevertheless, I am still completely pumped for this year. My novel is a rewrite of another that I have done many times before, though as always the story still seems completely different, and I will not be saving any words from the other drafts, so I don't count it as cheating. The story is beautiful, or at least I like to believe it is, centering around a girl with magic powers in a foreign city, ancestors and a coffee group that meets in a suburb outside of San Francisco after church on Sundays. It's my most genius of ideas, and ironically the one that I can never seem to get right. At this point, all I really want is a jumping off point, but that hasn't quite come yet.

However, one a very exciting note, NaNo has announced the pep-talkers for this year! I love how they do those writings, how it reminds me that I'm not the only one who has trouble with writing, and hates my current story at that point.

WEEKLY CHECK-IN:

How are you feeling about Nano?
Good, but then again I haven't started yet.

How is the story going?
Wonderful. The idea seems to be fully developed (though it better be after all of these drafts)

Word Count:
0 words

Surprises:
I completely changed the idea for the prologue since the last draft, and even just thinking about the new idea has me exploring all of these things that I'd never thought of before. The S.E.A. (an acronym for a central part of my story) has more detail than ever.