Category: Writing

(As we near the midpoint of National Novel Writing Month, I thought it would be fun to share an edited excerpt from my 50k words written four years ago.

My experience with the novel-writing challenge was a little crazy. I procrastinated so terribly that I ended up writing the last half (25k words) in the last 5 days of the month, over the Thanksgiving weekend. Talk about intense!

To give a little background: this story took place on an island inhabited by dragons and other mythical creatures, as well as two neighboring cities — the City and the Valley — locked in a devastating centuries-long war. I had plotted the original story several years before and essentially rewrote it in first person for NaNo in 2015. The scene I’d like to share is part of the epilogue, in which I moved back into third person and used a secondary character’s point of view. Enjoy!)