The June Crusade Tag Questions

Before I answer these, let me just say....

AGHHHHH!!!!! PANIC!!!!! I'm not NEARLY done and we're ALREADY at WEEK THREE!!! *pulls hair out* AGHHHH!!!!!

Okay. Whew. Thanks. Moving on...

1. What is your word count now?
18,021 words. Ouch... Well, I'm going to keep working at it and not let a little number like that get me down....

I'm doomed...

2. What is your favorite paragraph so far?
Ooh... good question. Hmm... I think I'm going to have to say this one, on page three. : )

(A little backstory.... My main character, Nikki, has just been talking to someone and her best friend, Natalie, is very surprised and can't say a word.)

"What?" I asked. "Do I have something on my face?"
Natalie shook her head. "Dost mine eyes deceive me...?"
I rolled my eyes. "Nope."
"You were actually talking to Dylan?! The cutest guy in school?!"
I folded my arms and nodded.
"And he talked to you?"
I nodded, then added, "Actually, he started the conversation."
Natalie gasped and grabbed my arm. "I think I'm going to faint. Catch me, please."
I rolled my eyes again. "Can I slap you, please?"
She smirked. "But it's Dylan Bronson!"

3. When you are writing what is your favorite song to listen too? Not theme song for your book but favorite song for while you're writing?
Song? Oh, my dear gracious, I don't think I can pick a song. I think the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack is what I'm writing to the most. Very good writing music, that!

4. Do you love your villains or do you relish hating them?
I have two villains... well, three, but the third one doesn't really count... Anyway, I really like them. I'm the one who loves the bad guys, remember? : )

5. What was your very first piece of free writing?
Oh, my stars... please don't ask. Fine. I'll tell you. The Greatest Adventure of the Summer. *blushes* It was a short story (five pages, to be exact) that I submitted *blushes again* to the American Girl Magazine for a contest. It's about this girl whose father is the president and has to ransom him after he's been kidnapped. With a grand total of $35 people. Not $35 million, just flat out $35. (An enormous sum of money when I was only ten, you guys!) I can't believe I actually submitted it... I'll have to type it up some day (spelling and grammar errors included) and post a little of it. It'll be like Jane Austen's Love and Freindship (sic). (If you guys haven't read that, look it up. It is SOOO funny!)

6. What was your first completed piece of fiction?
Another juvenilia. The Christmas Wish, a short story that was completed when I was 12. It was about a girl whose mom and sisters die in a car crash right before Christmas and her dad gets remarried a while later. I forget most of it, and nothing will convince me to read it again for a while!!

7. What are some of the plot bunnies that you are being teased with right now?
Ooh, plot bunnies! Yay. Not so embarrassing... : ) Let me see... Well, I have a few novels started, but one actual official plot bunny is about a guy and a girl... I don't have all of it right now. I'm also aching to start writing Aaron's Journey again, but that won't happen for a while - at least, not until I convince myself that I can write from a guy's perspective again. : P

8. What is your strategy for writers block?
What's that? Seriously, there is no such thing as writer's block. (So I've heard...) My solution is to just re-read the past thousand words you've written and delete what you think has gotten you into a hole. I thought I had writer's block a while ago, but I just asked myself what the focus of the chapter was and went on from there. (Also... I thought I had it this morning, but I realized it was time for a new chapter, so I skipped over to the next exciting part! Easy peasy, squeeze the lemon!)

9. If you could meet one famous author which one would you pick?

Wayne Thomas Batson or Robert Whitlow. *sigh* To think, I actually lived twenty minutes away from the latter at one point in my life.... *sigh* (Them, or the Baroness Orczy.... *sigh*)

10. Who is your favorite secondary character so far?
Natalie. : ) See the above paragraph. She's so much fun to write! She's so happy and bubbly, too. Ooh, and Dylan. : ) I really like writing him, too. (Alec isn't a secondary character, or else I'd pick him!)

Well, that's all! I'm thinking of posting excerpts... what say ye?

~Eowyn~

EDIT: Okay, so after I posted this I ran upstairs and started writing. After a slow start, I finally hit my stride and...

*cue Jurassic Park theme or Chariots of Fire theme or something big and awesome and monumentous (not a word, I know...)*

I just passed 20,000 words!!! WAHOO!!! There's a light at the end of this tunnel!

INTO THE FIRE!!! (After a Little Dorrit break... watching it with my younger siblings - their first time... *rubs hands gleefully*)