Camp Nano Update\\Feat. SPRING PHOTOS!!!

Greetings, all!

I do believe Spring is finally here. This week our high was 83 degrees Farenheight; and its only mid-April!!

Not that I’m complaining, of course. XP 

Camp Nano has been going pretty good for me of late; I’m really developing my story and characters. Freja my gypsy girl has been as irritating to Eden (my MC) as always. And FINALLY we’re having some action…as there may or may not have been a pirate attack at sea…and there may or may not have been some causalities… *whistles nonchalantly* 



Snippets!

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Freja took to sea life like a fish to water. I know that is a horrible cliché, but that is the first thing I thought of when I saw her skipping around the deck of the ship, singing in her hoarse voice and swabbing the decks with a mop that looked as if it had also done duty as a club in its day…which had probably been a hundred years ago. The thick handle was breaking apart, the tendrils of cloth attached to the bottom were fraying, and it hardly held enough water to fill a small cup.

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Freja bounced up and down. “I heard one o’ the sailors talking at dinner. He said there are mermaids in the waters down south. Have you ever seen a mermaid, Elani?”

                Her faint smile grew larger. “No, Freja; I don’t believe they exist.”

                Freja slumped. “Barnacles, I had hoped they were real. They sounded so pretty.”

                Elani opened her eyes. “What did you just say?”

                “They sounded so pretty?”

                “No; did you say barnacles?”

                Freja shrugged. “Y’ smacked me the last time I said something that I had learned while living with the gypsies, so I said something I learned from a sailor.”

                Elani shook her head. “Barnacles is better than the other thing you said.”

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Freja laughed. “Y’ can make a wish! If you wish on a shooting star, it will come true next time you see a shooting star.”

                Elani snorted. “That’s almost as preposterous as believing in mermaids.”

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Then I heard the screaming. 

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How much worse could you get?

…Much worse, as it turned out.

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His dark eyes were shaded by his dark hair; and his thin mouth was partially hidden by the shadows from his prominent cheekbones.

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So that’s how my story’s coming along. XD


Aanndd…a friend of mine who wants to become an illustrator is trying her hand at drawing for books for my story. Here is the first illustration that she has completed; and she is currently working on a couple more.

Isn’t it lovely??? :-O <33 Thanks so much E.M.!

How is Camp Nano going for the participants out there? Did you enjoy my snippets? Has Spring reached all you people in the Western Hemisphere yet? XD

Have a lovely Easter\Resurrection Sunday everyone!!! 

Namarie!