A Finished First Draft and Favorites from the Month

I finished my novel for this years Nanowrimo on Sunday!
I really wanted to have Thanksgiving week free, since we are having family over to stay, so I did the push to get 15,500 words written in three days. I managed to do so with the help of Go Teen Writers Word War. I had a blast and managed to get out up to 7,000 words a day! I had tons of fun and was so excited to have finished my first trilogy! The editing process for these babies will be intense, but it will also be exciting to go back and meet up with past characters once more. Exchange pleasantries, share how much I missed them, and add more excitement to their lives. You know, all that good stuff.

So, I thought I would share some of my favorite writing moments with you all from this November. If you are doing Nanowrimo this year, I would love to hear your highlights as well! So here is my short list of favorites from the month.

Favorite Character: Sparrow.
He is a orphaned boy of seventeen years, he works aboard a slave ship as an indentured servant. As a child he was raised by the stars, as are many orphans in the Realm. He meets the protagonist, Shiloh, near the end of the story and aids in his escape back home.

Favorite Scene: Ember's Pendant. 
Luna shows Kathrine Ember's dragon pendant which he had always kept as a reminder that no matter what others said about his outward appearance, he could always be strong on the inside. Kathrine recalled much of her past in this scene, for the pendant brought it back. I loved getting to write scenes involving her past betrothed, Julian. I was never able to write with him in a scene until these scenes, so it was neat getting to know this character of history better.

Favorite Dialog Quote: Scarlet the Star
“I did not call him, nor did another star, not even Ulrica... But one greater than even him.” Scarlet spoke softly now, her eyes radiant.

Care to share your favorites? I would love to hear them! Hope everyone is doing well this Nanowrimo, may writing go smoothly till the 30th. 

-Melody

Fiction Friday, Realm of Graphice Book Three

Hi all! Here to let you all have an excerpt from my current work in progress! I have been writing my
third book in the Realm of Graphice series, this November. So I thought it would be fun to share a piece from it. Let me know what you all think, and any tips on how I can love my characters more would be awesome. At present I am having a hard time because I killed my favorite one.

 Yeah, so  guess you could say I put it on myself by killing him, but the story brought me no other options. I may need to do some flashback scenes with him in them.

Ok, anyway, here is an excerpt involving Luna and Samuel's son, Shiloh. He is training under Ulrica, who also trained Ember (missing you Ember!) and Samuel. Hope you like it!

Excerpt from, Realm of Graphice Three (name in the works)

Study Time with Ulrica

Ink stains and stacks of scrolls. That seemed to sum up Shiloh’s life. He groaned as he slumped his head over the scroll in front of him, the words morphed together as his mind took over once more. He dreamed of the days when he trained with his grandfather, secretly longing to one day join the guard of the Realm. His father would have none of that. He knew that was for sure, but he couldn’t help longing for it. His parents took care of the Realm as King and Queen, was it wrong for him to long to help care for the people they loved? Shiloh tried adjusting her collar as it seemed to cut off all air flow. He resulted to a frustrated tug at it, then slouched in his hard seat over the scroll once more. 

“Prince Shiloh, please do sit up straight.” Sir Ulrica’s old gravely voice called across the study. 

Shiloh straightened his back on command, holding back an eye roll that threatened to come. He could sense Sir Ulrica’s searching eyes all over him as he critiqued his every action. Shiloh tried refocusing on the words in front of him, truly look interested and as though he was reading it. Sir Ulrica had a keen sense of being aware when he seemed to dawdle. 

Shiloh couldn’t wrap his mind around why his parents would give him such a task as training with Ulrica. Just because his father had once done the same to become a prophet, didn’t mean Shiloh had to do the same and become one as well. He had heard many stories of Prophets in the Realm, they had grown rare during the dry time when none ruled in the Hall of Kings. His father, King Samuel, was only a boy when he started training along side another young boy called Ember. Shiloh had known little of him. He had met him only once. The memory scent painful waves through him as he recalled the events. He shut his eyes as his hand went to his damaged ribs, the scar was jagged across them, permanently damaging the bone which caused him dull pain often. Ember had been the one to save his life only two years ago, although Shiloh didn’t know it at the time. It appeared as though a friend of Ember’s was the one who had intended on killing him. If Ember had not come he surely would have been dead. Shiloh was never allowed to be told the truth behind it all, his parents always said he was to young. That was always how it was, to young to know the truth to so many things, they said.

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What do you think? Interested in reading past excerpts to know what had happened with Ember and Shiloh before? if so, leave I comment and let me know that it should be one of the next Fiction Friday posts!

Happy Nanowrimo writing! 

-Melody

Pinterest Inspiration

Nanowrimo has been harder this year, I keep struggling to write after I killed that one character I loved so much.  So with my attempts to murder writers block, I have collected some awesome Pinterest boards. Hope you enjoy!

Follow Katy's board A Story: Inspiration on Pinterest.

Follow Maddie Morrow's board Story ideas. on Pinterest.

Follow Iris's board Characters/Ideas on Pinterest.

Follow Kelsey Hamersley's board Story Inspiration on Pinterest. 

Follow Hanne-col's board they have a story of their own on Pinterest.

Any Pinterest board recommendation? I could really use some inspiration. Hope everyones writing is going well this Nanowrimo! 

-Melody