...is a horrible abbreviation for an awesome event called
National Novel Writing Month. Every November since 1999,
Nanowrimo encourages writers to try to finish a 175 page novel by the time the 30
th rolls around in a effort to encourage first time writers who may be to scared or overwhelmed to start a novel otherwise. A lot of my friends have been busily working this month but I on the other hand have been stuck trying to perfect the two most important aspects of a single novel, the beginning and the end. Below are some examples from the novels I'm working on.
From my novel in progress "Hard Ice"
-"Colby Sinclair was two when his mother died. As far as he was concerned, the warm
Cheyenne sun was the only family he ever had."
- "I guess you're right Jeremy," he said with a sly grin. "Maybe we're all chasing the same dream after all."
From my novel in progress "Bullet Warning"
- "
Onetta Hill was the largest and most talked about estate in all the social circles
though out East New Hampton."
- "And with that Miss Rita quietly retired to her chamber. Drawing the curtains she
couldn't help but think about the boy with the blue button and all she had learned that Summer."
From my novel in progress "Devil's Mousetrap"
-"I have seen the purples and grey mountain tops flying over Colorado, the southwestern deserts of Arizona painted like a fine china doll, the mechanical city sprawl of
Beijing bustling while we here at home fall deeper into dreams. I have seen all of these things, throughout my lifetime of labors, yet I would trade it all in an instance for one more moment with her."
-"You cant have it all Frank, you know that right?" The man with the feather in his cap said in a gruff but reassuring voice.
"I know
compadre, I know," he said with a lingering sadness.
And with that brief exchange, the two men parted ways never to see each other again.
Grant Park Chicago (site of the 68' convention riots)
U Street, D.C. (40 years after being nearly burned to the ground after the 68' MLK riots).
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