Red on Black--Stroke of Genius

The Adventures of Gershom and Jasmine

12/6/2013

Like all good stories, this one was bred from inspiration. Well, I have no idea if that's true or not, but it sounds good, so I'm going with it. My inspiration comes from my bouncy, smart, creative, and sometimes a little too big for his britches son, EJ. When I decided to write a novel, I asked him what kind of story he wanted to read. We were sitting on his bed at the time, er, scratch that, I was sitting on his bed, he was jumping on it. He stopped bouncing long enough to stare at his map of the United States on his wall and say that he wanted a story where the kids traveled across the country. Well, what were they looking for? "Their mother!" And thus was born the idea for The Adventures of Gershom and Jasmine.

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My NaNo Adventure

12/6/2013

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On the last day of October, I decided to do something on a whim. I decided to write a novel. I know, writing an entire novel doesn't exactly sound like something people do on the spur of the moment, and normally I think about stuff (especially stressful stuff) a lot before I gently ease myself in, but for some reason, I just couldn't let my sister-in-law write a novel and not also write one myself. Call it pride or whatever else you want, but writing is MY thing, and I wasn't going to let it go without a fight.

On the first day of November, I started my novel. Why? Because November is NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth, or NaNoWriMo, for short, or just NaNo for even shorter. There is a website with a gazillion help threads on their forum, and several times a week, everyone gets sent an encouraging email. Most of each email was all about the person writing it, but usually at the end I would find a gold nugget. I would like to share those nuggets with you.

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