So, I was surfing the NaNo forums in an attempt to not study, and found a warm up that was a one word prompt: sovereign. The time limit was 45 min. That was one of the shortest 45 minutes that I have ever felt. I did, however, start to get a feel for the characters, because this could almost be a scene from the novel, exept for the ending.

Title: Sovereign
Rating: PG/PG-13ish - there's some torture talked about, but nothing too graphic
Time Limit: 45 min
Word Count: 1980

( Sovereign )

I counted up how many little sections I have, and there are about 42, not including the fairy tale. I think I'll post about two a day until I run out, or if it's a larger section, just the one. That way everything will be up before I start on the new novel.

( Meet Catherine and Angela and Stopping Death )

I know, it's 2007. I know that I didn't post my novel from last year up here. Now I am, you're going to get it as if I had just written it, because I haven't finished and I don't want to edit what I haven't finished. I managed to get the 50k in 12 days though, which was very shocking for me. I'm not hoping to do as well as that this year, but winning will be nice. I'm going to try and post at least one section a day, since I didn't do chapters but scenes, I'm not sure off the top of my head how many sections there are.

The inspiration for this novel was the musing of combining Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty into one poor girl. The first part, "Fairy Tale," is just that, a fairy tale that this was supposed to be based on. However, I wrote this first, so the actual plot ran away from me. Just like it ran away with ideas of religion. I wasn't going to have any in order to save myself the trouble. That didn't happen. The gods and goddesses of the Satutiel have become a pivital part of this story.

Title: Good Night and Good Luck
Rating: PG(?) - there's a war going on but nothing too graphic
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Action, Romance
Summary: A set of twin healers, known for their skill, soon get caught up in a war between their kingdom and an evil fairy trying to take over everything. They soon find that there is more to everything than meets the eye. Also includes an apathetic prince who's just trying to find something to care about, and an evil heir who might not be as evil as he thinks.

So, the shift key on this keyboard doesn't like to work, that's part of my problem.

After looking at this for moment, I have figured out that where I end is a really nice spot to end the story for awhile. I have to start actually doing school work and sleep before I fail a class (German).

( The Return of a Nephthys )

And voila, that's all I got for you. Enjoy. The next chapter may or may not be posted some time in December. I'll keep working on this, I really like the story line, and there's lots to still happen. Plus, this is the most I've ever written for anything in my entire life. I'm so proud of this, despite the obvious flaws.

Well, I have reached the ultimate goal of 50,000 words!! And I have lost all ability to type, it would seem. My fingers have gone crazy, I think it's because of the mass amounts of writing and typing I've done since last week.

Now, I have to confess something to you. I've been with holding story from you. Every time I would finish a chapter, I would just go to bed, and not post. Then I would forget about it. Yeah, I know, bad me. Well, I have 29 pages of story to give you, granted that's with 1.5 spacing for me.

Well, I'm confused because the computer that I'm on (a school one)is going batty on me. Oh well, I'm going to give you two chapters here, then immediately post the other one in another post. I'm doing this because Ch 30 is around 15 pages on its own.

( The Real Power and The Love of a Second Lifetime )

Okay, another confession, the chapter titles, what I plan, and what actually happens doesn't actually work together. So, if you read a chapter title and the following chapter doesn't actually have anything about the ch title, sorry. When I edit this sucker, it will be better.

So, I'm pretty sure that I have carpal tunnel syndrome. My stupid wrists hurt, and now my hands are all tingly. If it was just this one time, I wouldn't think that much about it, but no, this has happened for a long time. Actually, since I was a junior in high school, and since I'm a sophomore in college, that's kind of a long time. I want to tell my mother, but then I would have to do all these strange therapy things, and I hate therapy. And do you know why I have it? Not only because I spend a bunch of time on a computer, no that just gives me a lot of vision problems, but because of the way I played my clarinet. And I wasn't told this until my senior year in high school. Stupid tenseness.

But anywho, I have a new chapter. Actually, I had it earlier today, but I was hoping to give you a second one today, but my wrists are giving me problems.

So, the deadline is Wednesday, and I just got to 40,000 today. Well, crap. But I think I can do this, so that's all that really matters, right? Or, I might cheat, either way. But I really don't want to cheat, I want to do this the legitimate way.

Oh, for those who might be curious, the title to Part Six is 'With the Zeku'ai'. I will do another character thingy after this with more names and such for the Zeku'ai. And the title to this chapter and what actually happens in this chapter don't actually correspond with each other.

( The Blessed Ruler )

Okay, I think I'm about to head off to bed, maybe tomorrow my wrists will agree with me.

Morning all!! Just so you guys know, I've been up since 6:30 this morning. Why am I up? So I can go shopping, but not for normal stuff, for Aggie stuff! Then we have the Maroon Out game against the number 2 team in the country, t.u. (which you might know better at the University of Texas, but down here, we all call them t.u.). I'm not sure when my roommate and her mom and sister are getting back, so I can't say much more.

One more chapter done. It seems they're getting longer, which is a good thing because that means more words, but also bad because it means that I might not finish for a long time. I really wanted to finish before the end of the year.

( The Nomads of the North )

It's a good thing that you don't get to read what I wrote down to happen in some of these chapters. Starting around ch. 22, things start straying from what I had planned. But, hey, that plot was a tentative one. Mainly so I couldn't stare at my computer and think about what would happen next.

Note of warning: the description of the Zeku'ai will probably change, a lot, as I write. I don't have a definate plan for them, but a vague idea. I plan on piecing it all together when I finish some more anthro classes and start editing. Yep, I plan on editing this sucker, and it's gonna take forever. But maybe, in the dream of dreams, I can get published.

Yay, I love turkey!! It's like my favorite meat in the entire world! And it doesn't make me that sleepy. I'm just naturally that way anyways. Sorry, I'm really excited about this. Yeah, this was the first Thanksgiving I spent away from my family, but it was nice. At least my roommate got to see her family. Only a few more weeks until finals are over and I go home for the holidays.

So, yeah, um, I have two rather long chapters for you to read. I started writing in twenty minute sprints, which give me around seven pages each (nearly 1000 words). So, the next two chapters are really long. Sorry. I'm at 36,000 words, so I've got almost a quarter left to write, in the next five days. Heh, no biggie. But yeah, I better start typing again.

( The Rescue and The Partial Truth )

So, um, yeah. Tanya somehow wiggled her way as a main character. Evelyn did the same thing earlier in the story. Hopefully, no more characters will do that. I really don't want to have to write that many more POV's. Other good news, we are officially half way through this sucker. Only twenty five more chapters to go. Another hundred pages, yay!!! Yeah, there are now 104 pages or so.

I finally broke 30,000, and I seem to be on a roll. Going to the write in on Monday helped a lot. Granted, my hand hurt a lot, but I got another 2700 words written. *happy dance* I forgot to post what I wrote last night, so I got that and what I've done today partially. I'm almost halfway through this story and almost at 100 pages. I also changed my formatting, so I'm not sure how that's going to work on here. Eh.

Warning, The Torture, the second chapter I'm posting, can be kinda gory to some people, so don't complain to me. You are reading this on your own free will.

( The Decision and The Torture )

Back to the writing board!!

Ok, just for the record, my hand really hurts. I went to a write in today, and while in two hours I wrote 2631 words and two chapters. And, this is all hand written in a spiral. Ouch. But I did get a lot of words today. I'm only like 5000 words behind now. Which I suppose is better than being 10,000 words behind. Anywho, I don't have much more to say. Part Four is called Beginnings of War. The plot should start picking up from here. More action hopefully.

( The Kidnapping and The Inactivity )

Back to the keyboard!!

Yep, just as I promised, Part Three is done, and now it is time for the character post.

( Characters and some background info )

Well, that's it for now. I'm hoping to get another chapter done before I go to the write in this afternoon. Roommate is still asleep. I wish I was still asleep, but I needed to get up before 1 today, if only to make sure that I get some sleep tonight.

Thank goodness, I finally got over 25,000 words. I'm so happy. This has got to be the most I've ever written for anything. I'm so proud of this.

I can't say much, I'm tired and need sleep. More tomorrow with the character post.

( The Vision )

Guten Nacht Alles!

Well, I finally figured out a title. Granted, it might change once I finish, or maybe even before hand. But yes, the title is. . . The World You Thought You Knew. Not the most exciting thing in the world, but I like it. And it kinda fits the plot that I have down. Only one chapter right now, but I'm about to keep typing. Chapter nineteen is the last chapter for Part Three. That's right, you guessed it, then the character post!! Yay!!

So, I spent over an hour this afternoon trying to get some dressed designed for the culture they have. I have one for the Zeku'ai (which has only been mentioned once), and a everyday dress, and a possible gypsy/dancing dress. I'm still trying to figure out a ball dress. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into this.

Anyways, here's Chapter Eighteen.
( The Return of the Baron )

Maybe I'm going too fast with the Catherine/Richard thing. Ah crap, you aren't supposed to know that. *face palm* Oh well. As if it weren't obvious.

So, I am so disliking school. I am totally blaming school for the reason why I'm behind. I had two tests this week that I had to study for. Thus, no writing. I only have to write like 10,000 words this weekend to catch up.

Well, I only got one chapter to offer you right now. But, it's currently my favorite chapter so far. Why? I don't know, it's got a lot of angst and blood. Maybe that's why? Who knows?

( The Dream of Betrayal )

I'm going to keep typing for awhile. I'm also going to work on the uber post with characters and culture. Back to the salt mines!

Well, I've only gotten on more chapter written. I'm probably not going to write a whole lot this evening and tomorrow. Tests/school are evil.

( The True Evil )

I'm almost done introducing characters for this bit. There will always be more charas to introduce, but it should slow down for a little bit. Once I finish Part Three, which is in three more chapters, I'll make a character post. Deal? Deal.

Side note: it's finally feels like autumn here! I'm so happy!

Well, crap. It's Nov 15, and I'm just getting to 20,000 words. I'm more than a little bit behind. My goal was to be at 30,000 words today. Now, I'm struggling to make it to the minimum. But, now I have a solid plot down. It seems to have changed a good deal from the original idea (which was actually a bar scene, many many months ago). I have fifteen chapters chapters written, and thirty five more to write. Hopefully, I won't run out of material to write about, since each chapter has a little over 1000 words (I think it's more like 1500).

I'm not going to tell you the entire plot, since that would ruin the fun about it. But do know that there is now an official plot instead of just my random ramblings. And, there should be fifty chapters in total, unless Catherine, Evelyn, or Richard throw a fit.

Once I have a few more chapters written, I'll post a list of characters and their titles, since I tend to use both when I write. But now, the one chapter I wrote last night before a massive streak of plotting.

( The Baron Richard )

That about describes my thinking pattern at the moment. I'm trying to dig up words, but I somehow keep burning out at around 2000, and I'm getting near that number. I know what I want to do with this story, I really do, but writing it is just so different than thinking it. Maybe it's because I act out the parts with mostly dialogue (which you can tell by my writing) and so I don't know how to describe the action. That, or I'm a horrible writer.

I have two chapters right now, before I dive headlong into my story again. One is a chapter that I forgot to write for Part Two until today, the other is a new chapter to continue the plot. (There's a plot!?!)

( The Silver Family and The Woman Called Destiny )

Well, that's it for right now. another possible post about characters, so everyone knows who is who (including me!!) and some more chapters possibly.

Can't say much, have to go to a group meeting soon. Two more chapters, finally at 16,000 words. Need only 9,000 more to get to personal goal.

( Part Three: Welcome to the 'Other' World )

At some point, I'll make a post with all the titles and names so that it will be easier to follow who's who.

Well, I'm getting closer to be on schedule. I'm only one thousand words off after typing today. I'm at 14,000 words!! The vistors aren't causing any problems whatsoever, in fact, the one was telling me to go and type instead of talking to them. I'm so happy. And I finally finished Part Two, though I'm thinking about adding another chapter, I forgot about it when I was planning out my chapters. I really like the idea for the chapter, a family dinner. It just seems cozy. But I'm afraid to introduce more characters just before sending Catherine and Evelyn away. Oh well, I guess if I ever get stuck again (which may or may not happen now) I can write that chapter, more words.

I need to go to bed, so no more talking for me. And yes, I currently have no name for the king, so his name is king blah. I'll fix that first thing tomorrow, right now I want to sleep and not look at names. Oh, and try to guess my chapter naming pattern.

( The Event That Caused Everything to Change and The Destiny Revealed )

Up next, the beginning of Part Three: Welcome to the "Other" World

Hehehe, oops. I guess not writing for two days isn't a good thing. I'm now extremely far behind on my novel. But, also unfortunately, I'm running out of ideas. Not for the entire novel, just for this part. I wrote two chapters today (over 3000 words) and I'm hoping for another two more before I move on to the 'other' world. Once I'm there, I should be okay with ideas, because that's what I've been working towards all this time. I just have to figure out things to happen in Earth. I'm kinda scared that I'm not going to make it to 50,000 before I finish my novel. I know that seems far away, but there's only so much I have planned. Granted, I could always add more thingies to happen between the transport and the end of the novel. Or I could add more things to happen once my main plot is done. Granted, there really isn't a main plot.

So, I was talking to my German teacher, and I happened to tell her about NaNoWriMo. She's a native German speaker, but she's interested in reading the finished work. I'm actually kinda scared because I've only let my peers read my work, not someone who's older than me. I guess I'll have to jump that bridge when I get there. Right now, I have to focus on getting as many words as possible.

My roommate's sister and mom are coming tomorrow for her sister's interview. That could possibly mean no typing tomorrow, so I have to make double sure to write as much as possible today and between classes.

Oh yeah, I've started taking a notebook with me to class so that I can write some more when I'm not at my computer. I wrote over 1200 words in that thing today. I'm extremely proud of myself for that.

I suppose that you want the new chapters that I've written. I'm trying to patch up the mess that Catherine caused in Chapter Six. If things seem a little shaky, tell me and I'll remember to fix it later if I decide to edit this sucker. First things first, getting to the finish line. Also, I've never been to a psychologist, so I'm not entirely sure what all goes on during a visit to one, so I kinda made it up.

( Chapter Seven: The Shrink and Chapter Eight: The Move In )