Beautiful Books 2016 - Introduce Your Novel

   Hissss .... 
   You, the fearless, courageous (and most likely cruel) writer, shiver at the noise. You're frozen with fear. Something is around the corner. It's attack is inevitable.
   It creeps slowly out and then - 
   The NaNoWriMo monster pounces.   

   It's NaNo prep month! Time to get our armor ready to face that horrid NaNo monster - and also the time to join in the epic Beautiful Books linkup.

(Ahem, just sayin', I'm writing two novels for NaNo. Yes, I'm a rebel. I'll be doing Beautiful Books for them both - one that I'm temporarily calling The Game and another that's temporarily called All You Remember)

1. What inspired the idea for your novel, and how long have you had your idea? 
    
   (The Game) 7/04/16  

   I'm very exact sometimes XD. I got the idea while driving home from a parade (no idea what gave me the spark of inspiration, but does it really matter? THE IDEA LIVES), and I was totally unprepared and didn't have a notebook on me. So I had to entrust the idea to my forgetful brain and SOMEHOW it survived the trip home. 

   For All You Remember it was ... uh ... I don't know? I literally can't remember anything about how or when I got this ideas. 

   AND then sometimes I'm not exact at all XD. 

2. Describe what your novel is about! 
   
   ... is this Savannah-gives-out-spoilers day or something? 

   Well I suppose I can generous and give you the synopsis I already posted on the NaNoWrimo site show you a little something about The Game *nods*. 

  A life that was perfect torn to tatters in her dreams. A missing twin sister that she's always hated. Hallucinations mixing with real life. A Bus that's appearance means death.

   Maria's mind has betrayed her. And the Game will change everything she's ever known, whether she wants it to or not.

   But for All You Remember - well, let's just say I really have no idea, something to do with Faeries and magic and stuff my lips are sealed.

3. What is your book's aesthetic? Use words or pictures or whatever you like! 
  
   Hmm. The Game, it's ... very hard to explain. Let's just say that I can explain better with a picture (even if the picture isn't really spot-on, it's the best I've got) ... 

   And there ya go. All You Remember takes place all over the world, so I'll just be lazy and give you another collage show you a collage I made for it (I"M OBSESSED WITH COLLAGES, YOU GUYS) ...

4. Introduce us to each of your characters! 

   UH have I mentioned that I'm going die-hard pantser on this NaNoWriMo novel? 

   I basically know nothing. About either story. IT'S HALF THE FUN. But (since I'm feeling friendly today) I'll let you know a thing or two about the main character of each story. 

   (The Game) Maria is about seventeen or so, tall, blonde, and hazel-eyed. She's been living with her friend's family since her mother died. She hates her sister, Silvia, despite the girl's unfailing sweetness - mostly because Silvia partially caused their mother's death. Other than that, she lives a normal life - does fine in school, hangs out with friends. Until she starts seeing things.
   She calls them hallucinations. Her hallucinations assure her that they're real. She tells them to go away, they're just some weird dream. 
   But then they take her at her word - they infiltrate her dreams and won't let go.
   She refuses to be fazed until she wakes up with wounds that she has acquired in her dream. Things start getting far too real for comfort. 

 

   (ALSO, Maria and Silvia don't have a last name, so any help with that would be appreciated *points down at comment section*.)

   (All You Remember) I .. don't even know the main character's name? I know she's not on the short side, but she's not super tall either. Typically quiet - not really an introvert, she just likes to listen. But she can be awfully feisty when she wants to be.

   GUYS, I'M NOT PLANNING ANYTHING. Enough said XD.

5. How do you prepare to write? (Outline, research, stocking up on chocolate, howling, etc.?) 

   Preparing to write? This is a thing?! 

   I'm a pantser, you guys. Preparing and I are not the best of friends. I don't like preparing. The closest I normally get to preparing is taking all the ideas that have been stewing in the back of my brain and moving them to the front of my brain. And making a picture collage. That's about it XD. 

6. What are you most looking forward to about this novel?  

   Besides writing them and totally acing NaNoWriMo? Probably figuring out all the plot twists I'm going to add. I can't be the only one who internally has a huge party when I figure out THE MOST PERFECT plot twist in the whole wide world. 

   Plot twists give the story its pretty ripples - they are the coolest ever *nods*. 

7. List three things about your novel's setting 
  
   The Game is mostly set in Maria's dreams and - since we all know how dreams go (HA) - that means that the setting changes A LOT. In one scene there's a forest missing half it's color and in another there's a misty scene where you can hardly see a thing and another takes place at the top of a cliff. I think XD.
   
   However, some of it takes place in the real world and looks just about normal (you know, when Maria's not seeing "hallucinations" and all *shrugs*). 

   I'd call that about three things. And I'm not even going to start on All You Remember (that one takes place all over the world, the end.)

8. What's your character's goal and who (or what) stands in their way?

  SO, I'm feeling like I should have just done a post that said I'M PANTSING NANOWRIMO and left it at that.

   I don't know either of my character's goals. I can't tell you what stands in their way. That is all. *takes a bow*. 

9. How does your protagonist change by the end of the novel? 

   *sighs* Ah, finally! A question I can answer! 

   Maria becomes more loving and All You Remember's MC become more outgoing and learns how to stand up for herself (and others).  

    Look! I do know a bit about my novels! XD 

10. What are your book's themes? How do you want readers to feel when the story is over? 
   
   Not telling, AND not telling. My lips are sealed. 

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   SO ... yup. 

   *crickets* 

   I'm pantsing NaNoWriMo. Over and out. 

~ Savannah Grace 

   Are you pantsing, plantsing, or plotting NaNoWriMo? I must know *nods*.