So, while I’m in the re-write of Gift of the Ancients, I’ve had my next novel somewhat on my mind. I plan to do Nanowrimo again this year, and I’d like to have a better fleshed-out Snowflake to work with this time.

The story is called Windsinger, and I began it when I was about 15. The basic plot is clear to me, but it needs fleshing out. Step one of the Snowflake is to write a one-sentence summary of the novel, which gets used extensively in marketing the idea/book so you want to make it good. Randy Ingermanson has been critiquing one-sentence summaries on his inestimable Advanced Fiction Writing blog, and you can join the fun!

I already posted the one-sentence for Gift of the Ancients, here’s a stab at the one for Windsinger:

An outcast girl discovers her true identity, but can her power overthrow an ancient tyrant?

In spite of annoying health issues, I did complete the re-write of the first five chapters in my novel Gift of the Ancients. Next week’s goal: write and edit the last two chapters of ‘book one’, also known as, ‘the beginning of the story’. I don’t know if I’ll keep the ‘book one’, ‘book two’ divisions in it, like Brian Jacques does, but it’s helpful to keep myself organised, and encouraging to say “I’m nearly done Book One!”.

In The Story of Me, I have now chronicled the first five years of my life and begun the next five. I’m not pushing myself on it too hard. Some days a lot of things I hadn’t thought of come out of my pen, other days only a little makes it onto the page. I’m handwriting this project, and frankly, I intend to burn it once it’s all down. It’s the doing, not the having, but I’m already seeing some benefit to it.