Friday, December 3, 2010

End of Nanowrimo...so sad

So, three days ago (sorry it's late to those nonexistant readers) Nanowrimo ended and I reached, not 30,000, not 40,000, not 50,000 but 62,789 words. In. A. Month. Cool huh? Anyhoo, I had tons of fun writing it and now that my novel City Lights on the Water is done, I'll have to think of something else. Below is an excerpt and a synopsis. Oh, and one more thing, on the YWP Nanowrimo site, my username is Ami.

City Lights on the Water

Ben Channing and Olivia Trent are dancers. But they are completely different. Ben Channing has had no professional training, all the training he’s ever had was on the streets of San Francisco. Olivia Trent, on the other hand, is from a well-to-do family and attends a small state of the art private school in New York where she studies mainly classical ballet with a mix of hip hop. But after a car crash that leaves her mom dead and Olivia unable to dance, everything changes. Olivia’s dad suddenly comes into the picture, a man she hasn’t seen or talked to in the past five years and takes her back to San Francisco with him, hoping to make things better, but instead, making them worse. When Olivia and Ben’s worlds collide, the two immediately are drawn together and what seems like the end is only the beginning of a roller-coaster ride of emotion and a twist nobody will see coming.

Excerpt

Prologue
The first time I saw someone dance was when my momma took me to the Coppeilia ballet. When I saw those dancers glide across the stage like swans, I knew what I was going to be when I grew up. Ever since that day, when I was five, I just kept on dancing, I never stopped, it was like the world revolved around me and dancing, it was like there was nothing else, at least, there was nothing else until the day my momma died, then I realized that maybe dancing wasn’t everything. It was time I woke up and saw the world in front of me, not the fairytale that I had been living my entire life.

And here is my winner's badge!!

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