Re: Introduce yourself to the region!

DevonCShapland
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:36:51 -0500

Well, it seems like there's a couple of newbies out there, so I suppose I don't feel quite so terrible adding myself to that unfamiliar bunch. I'm Devon, and I'm an alcoholic. Oh, sorry, wrong group: I'm Devon and this is my first NaNoWritMo. I'm a 16 year old junior in highschool (witness me bowing down before your superiority in age and wisdom) and can only pray my writing isn't half that bad. It's better to degrade than to be narcissistic, no?
I hope to get my contemporary-sci fi-horror-supernatural spawn of a novel off the ground, having been preoccupied with a prior novel for over five years. I need a serious change of pace! I think I've a solid beginning, it's just the in-betweens I need to figure out. I'm hoping a time pressure might give me the kick I need.
A short summary of the plot: a fourteen year old prestigeous girl from Georgia joins up in the United State's 2nd civil war, where the east fights the west who have created demonic-like beasts from extraterrestrial materials found in Roswell, NM. It's a lot about breaking out of the shell she's been encased in (of upper class white society, the cream of the crop) and how she goes about once she finds herself naked (metaphorically, of course).

So nice to meet you all :)