Daily Introduction Thread: Day One

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Hi guys! This is your NaNoWriMo is officially 10 days away. (don't shoot the messenger) With that, I give you the Daily Introduction Thread. We will be posting these for exactly two weeks, woo, so feel free to take your time and don't all clamor on the first one (or do, I don't care). What you do is post who you are, your name, your story idea, genre, etc, as well as your mother's maiden name and social sec - just kidding. :) (or am I?)

Have fun with it. NaNoWriMo is one part the challenge, but another very large part, and the reason we suspect so many of you are here for, is the community. We are here to form this community and my goal is to make sure that the relationships and community that is formed during these two months last all year. (more on that to come). So get to know each other and yourself and make some new friends!

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[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

Hi there, my name is Reneé. I am 27 years old (will be 28 on Sunday) and I live near San Diego, CA. This is my first time ever doing NaNoWriMo, though if you were on Camp NaNoWriMo this summer you might have seen me there under my username waldenwriter, since I signed up for it, even though I did nothing for that in the end.

I am marketing myself as a Christian sci-fi and fantasy author. I lean a bit more to the fantasy end of it though, and my only completed novel at present is a science fantasy, with more fantasy than science. I have written a couple pieces for school that were more pure sci-fi though, namely the end of a sci-fi police procedural adaptation of The Canterbury Tales (oh yeah I like mystery too) and a short story that was more hard sci-fi but also involved parallel worlds. I also write straight-up fantasy (my username refers to my Tales of Walden series, a Tolkienesque high fantasy series currently consisting of an unfinished novel and several not-really-connected-yet short stories and poems) and have a YA series planned that is a little fantasy, a little time-travel, a little historical fiction, and a little adventure wrapped into one. You can read more about all that at my website, http://www.reneedlevine.com (http://www.reneedlevine.com).

My project is a little...different. It's an original magical girl series, called "Music Land Maestress," which has a music theme. Magical girl is an anime/manga genre; think Sailor Moon, Rayearth, Mew Mew Power, etc. My work is also influenced by my love for fantasy novels and by other shows I like such as Code Lyoko, Winx Club, and W.I.T.C.H.

I can't give you much of the plot due to LJ comment character limits, but these character profiles might help: http://littechgirl.deviantart.com/gallery/39196719 (http://littechgirl.deviantart.com/gallery/39196719). The short, oversimplified version, I guess, is this: These two guys, Allegron and David, from the world of Lyra (the "music land" of the title - Lyra is a world permeated by music), are trying to save their land and its neighbor Aquarius, which were conquered by the Dissonance Kingdom, an evil kingdom representing dissonance, discord, and despair. To do so, they must find people whose hearts resonate with 12 jewels that contain the essences of Sinfonia, the "princess" of Lyra; Ranvois, the prince of Aquarius; and their protectors, who all lie mortally wounded back home and are essentially Lyra/Aquarius's only real hope of salvation. They escaped with the jewels to our world to keep them safe, but it seems the Dissonance Kingdom followed them. Now, 20 years after they arrived, the Dissonance Kingdom finally decides to show itself in our world. Allegron manages to finally find the first "jewel bearer," but he and David need to find the other 11 before it's too late.

Like I said, that's the short, oversimplified version - the plot as it stands is more complex than that.

This project is also a little different in that it is a personal project, one I never intended to publish in the usual sense. I needed motivation to start writing it, and NaNo provided the perfect opportunity. I will probably publish it online though. And if it gets attention like Fifty Shades of Grey did, cool. If not, well, I tried.

I'm pretty nervous, as this is my first time doing NaNo, but I'm going to use these next 10 days to prepare as much as I can. Still could use your prayers, wishes of luck, words of encouragement, advice, whatever you can give.