SeptNoWriMo 2013-09-07

Dear body: we had this conversation yesterday.

820 words for a total of 2650 in the novel project and 8452 words this month. I've adjusted my goal to a thousand words a day, so I fell short but I'm ahead.

Snippet:

"Isn't it beautiful?" Sarah said from the storefront, presumably addressing a customer. Becca glanced back at her reference sketch, then set flame-pencil to ring. "I made it myself," Sarah continued, "and Jamal's engagement ring and our wedding rings to match. Gold and cubic zirconia, with a triquetra around the stone and Celtic-style knotwork on the band. We're having a Christmas wedding, I'm walking down the aisle to 'Angels We Have Heard On High'—"

SeptNoWriMo 2013-09-08

I think I'm done writing for the evening. 2043 words today for a total of 3312 in the novel draft and 10495 in the words for the month. And the first chapter is done! I think. Down to just tweaks, anyway.

Snippet:

Leah, after all, had no power over fire. She couldn't start them, accidentally or on purpose, without doing so deliberately and with full knowledge and intent that lighting the match would cause a flame. [...] Becca by contrast had vivid memories of setting other kids' hair on fire when they teased her about her own. The fires were always out by the time adults came investigating, and no one could prove anything about any of the incidents, but however much Becca had wanted the fires to start, never once had she consciously meant to start them.