It has been my goal for some time to improve my writing by doing so every day but I've had a hard time keeping motivated. Hopefully sharing what I write with others will keep me going. :)
Recently ideas for this years NaNoWriMo struck me, as they tend to do in July/August. It's fascinating to watch the stories evolve and mutate from the first spark to the first words. This year it all began while watching Mail Order Bride, a Hallmark movie about a con-woman in the 1800s who takes her friend's place as a mail order bride to escape a crime lord who is after her. I decided I wanted to write a story set in the West but I knew that I wouldn't be able to stretch it for 50k words. Naturally therefore, someone must be daydreaming this life, or having flashbacks into family history or something like that. From that idea came a female cabbie in modern day NYC who has aspirations to be an author, which has now mutated into a female cabbie in NYC who likes to move around, dislikes cats, has two parrots named after fictional metals and discovers letters from an ancestor living in the 1800s, shortly before the cabbie witnesses a crime and has to be relocated to another city where she has to work at an aquarium. Welcome to my brain.
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