Current mood:	frustrated
Current music:	Mulan

Day 1
*Gah!* It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo and already I feel like chucking my laptop at the wall. My target audience has read and critiqued my first paragraph … who knew 10-11 year olds were so opinionated > < … and truthfully it’s been insightful, now I know I’m doing everything wrong and need to rethink my whole writing strategy *sniff*.



At twelve years of age, Ivan Sage was quite certain that the world was out to get him and that he’d die a horrible, terrible, quite gruesome and inexplicable death. Of course, he failed to have any evidence to prove this, and the rational side of his brain screamed that he was imagining things, making him believe that he was in fact going crazy. This naturally, failed to make him feel better, for he was either doomed to die or was slowly going insane.

Yeah, it needs a great deal of work, according to my 10 year old critic it doesn’t quite grab the reader’s attention … this is of course after I’d gone back and changed the whole character introduction after the 11 year old I talked to said she couldn’t understand several of the words I used > <. Yep, I’m off to a great start.