If Wishes Were Horses

If Wishes Were Horses by Kissed Fingers featuring 1928 jewelry

Items in this set:
Tsumori Chisato dress, 36,750 JPY
1928 brooch, $22
Shop.hm.com brooch
Elizabethsembellishments.com lamp, $297
Pier1.com decor, $12

Excerpt from Love in the Aftermath

Francis came into work flushed and out of breath. She had just returned from lunch and now the cubicle she worked in every day, the small space she looked forward to tucking into each morning like a cocoon, safe and secure from the outside world, seemed not to fit her anymore. The crisp fall air wafted in behind her as she walked, almost floated, in. She was brimming with a magical feeling she carried in with her like fairy dust. Her nose was pink at the end and her lips were raw. Had anyone in the office even noticed, they would have thought she had chapped lips from the dry air except that she glowed too, luminescent, so the careful eye would note that she had been kissed, recently, and more than once.

Polyvore for Love in the Aftermath

Love in the Aftermath

That's the title of my book.

It is shaping up to be a series of short stories. Does that count? I hope so.

Playing with Epistolary

I think one of my stories will end up as an epistolary tale. When Taylor leaves her husband and their house after a near-violent outburst, she leaves everything behind including her cell phone. With only her car and wallet, she sets out on a journey alone and decides to send her husband a letter instead of trying to call him. This slows everything down. At first she just writes and tells him where she is; asks him not to follow her. Once she finds a place to stay for a while, he starts writing her back...

Inspiration and other thoughts

Inspiration

This is my first NaNoWriMo and I'm jumping right into unknown territory. I'm intrigued by relationships - the way people speak to each other, how they interact and the body language they use to communicate.   I'm not sure why I went to such a dark place so quickly in my first novel! I think it's partly because it's a challenge and partly because I no doubt have some dark places (as do we all) so why not tap into them for a novel/short story?

Story

My second story line is one that might win out over the first. They are both vying for my attention so I have been jumping back and forth between each one. It's kind of a race to see which one ends up the strongest. I'll post an excerpt from that one soon.

Genre

This one is tough. I'm already into week one of this race and I haven't yet decided. I'm letting that be okay for now. Just getting it all on paper is the big one for me, especially as a first attempt.

Support

I don't know what my fellow writers thing but I'm finding that the messages of support from NaNoWriMo really help. I think it will be liberating to finish 50,000 words and not have to worry whether it's good let alone worthy of publishing Just the act of completing a book will be enough. The rest will come. It feels good to be a part of something so huge and inclusive and positive.

In much the same way my favorite fashion bloggers have helped me declare my love of clothing and fashion and inspired me to start wearing all the clothes I've been hiding in my closet for so long, NaNoWriMo is helping me declare that I love to write and I'm not afraid to put it out into the world.

Go Wrimos!