I'm a speculative fiction writer--I've always loved it and I always will. My goal, which I'm publicly posting so you can make sure to hold me accountable, is to write 1,000 words a day. It's not much, but I need to get myself out of my writer's block rut that has been holding me hostage for about 5 months now! Today was the first day (1,000 words is about 2 1/2 pages, double-spaced) and it was pretty easy. Once I get into the habit of writing 1,000 words a day, I'm going to bump it up to 1,500, then 2,000, and so on. If you're interested, check out the novels I've been working on:
Forever & Always:
I struggle to hear any footsteps or creaks; but it's silent, too silent. Edmund had at least made a little noise when he'd come into my room the other night. This isn't Edmund. I try to open my eyes, but I don't dare. I don't want this intruder to know that I know they are here.
Before I can decide what to do, rough hands grip around my neck. My eyes fly open as a scream erupts from my throat. The hands grip tighter, cutting off my scream and airway in an instant. Slowly my body is pulled from the bed. I claw at the hands wound around my neck, they are too tight, too welded on. I can't find a hold. I struggle to bring any amount of air as I kick and thrash around as much as possible. Within seconds my feet leave the floor, my back pinned against the wall, nothing but the hand grasped securely around my neck holding me dangling in the air.
Forever & Always is a young adult/science fiction book that follows Chloe as she tries to escape the problems of her life, including the death of her father, by travelling into the past. Unfortunately, Chloe ends up in the wrong time and her journey turns from one of saving her father, to scrambling for her own life. She must learn to live in this new world in order to return to the old one. However, as fate would have it, this new world slowly becomes her life as she grows to be self-reliant, to face her problems head on, and as she falls in love with the one man she always thought she'd despise: Edmund.
The Harvest:
How do you control desire? How do you survive obsession? You don't.
Two young lovers must fight against life and death in this Paranormal Fantasy novel of unconventional and impossible love. Jace never thought what he once knew as myth would turn into reality. Let alone, he'd be the one to uncover the truth about the disappearances of males from Santa Cruz...
That is until he fell for Iris—a hauntingly beautiful girl that looked more stunning in the moonlight with the glow of the ocean on her skin than anywhere else on the planet. Sirens, after all, tend to captivate the male species the closer they are to their feeding grounds. Troubled by her own life, Iris doesn't mean to complicate it by letting Jace pull at her heart strings; but before she knows it, it's too late—she's in love with her prey.
It isn't until the only boy who Iris has ever fallen for hears her song (a pure, hypnotic melody of notes that lures men into the ocean, sealing their deaths with her words) that her world turns completely upside down. Suddenly Iris must choose who she stands with: her family or the humans?
Either way, many will die.
That is until he fell for Iris—a hauntingly beautiful girl that looked more stunning in the moonlight with the glow of the ocean on her skin than anywhere else on the planet. Sirens, after all, tend to captivate the male species the closer they are to their feeding grounds. Troubled by her own life, Iris doesn't mean to complicate it by letting Jace pull at her heart strings; but before she knows it, it's too late—she's in love with her prey.
It isn't until the only boy who Iris has ever fallen for hears her song (a pure, hypnotic melody of notes that lures men into the ocean, sealing their deaths with her words) that her world turns completely upside down. Suddenly Iris must choose who she stands with: her family or the humans?
Either way, many will die.
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