“…love in deed and truth.”

I have officially reached 25k in my novel.  I am halfway there which is pretty cool.  

Something I’ve learned from play-writing class is that sometimes you just have to get something out of your head no matter how bad or stupid it sounds, or no matter how much you think that you shouldn’t be writing it.  And this story is nowhere near to being out of my system yet, so I just need to get out.  And I can’t start writing something new no matter how much I want to, since that would be cheating…and I’ve already cheated too many times on stories in the past…

~A

So while I’m suppose to be writing a philosophy paper I keep getting these ideas for my novel.  I already have this idea that involves several women and only one man, maybe two.  The characterization is going to be very crucial and as such the names of my characters are going to be very important in respect to the way they sound and what they mean.  Here are the names I have so far.

Ashia- means “life, hope”

Zulema- means “peace.”

Alexis- means “defender, protector”

Amana- means “faithful, loyal.”

Edana- means “fiery.”

Tirion- means kind, gentle.

Rabiah- means “gentle wind.”

Jerika- means “strong, gifted leader.”  

Vondra- means “womanly, brave.”

Okay, back to philosophy paper…

So for the past two years, I’ve participated in National Novel Writing Month.  It’s actually really fun, but both years I’ve never been able to finish.  I got about a little over half-way done with the require 50,000 words last year.  This year though, I’m prepping myself early and I’m going to finish it no matter what I have to do.  Sometimes the motto has to be quantity rather than content, and then just fix the content later.  People do this from all over the world and it’s pretty awesome fun to get a group together and do it.  Anyway, there’s my plug for nanowrimo.  All you writers out there, you need to get on this.  It start Nov. 1st and ends Nov. 30th.

www.nanowrimo.org