Nanowrimo 2011 Daily Word Count Graph

Nanowrimo 2011 Wordcount

Nanowrimo 2011

I am participating in this year's Nanowrimo.  Last year, I won with my latest Gothic Novel, The Curse of Anna Greene, which has now been published and is availiable on Amazon.  This year, I am participating again with my Novel, Love's Flaming Torch. 

         I have currently written 12,224 words as of 4th November.  It is currently in first draft stage. I hope to write 50,000 words by the end of November.  I am planning to publish it next year.  Here is my page on NanoWrimo.
My Nanowrimo Page

Autumn

Of all the seasons
I love autumn most of all...
The lovely essence of serenity...
Of watching nature's tale retold
By a lady dressed in gold;

I love to sit back and absorb
The splendor of the autumn dawn
And watch the beauty of October's sun
Cast deep shadows on the lawn.



Autumn gives off splendor
Fall leaves collapse on the ground
In shades of red, amber and crimson brown...
A kaleidoscope of brilliant colours---
Of multi-pattern hues.



Amidst the mums, pumpkins and gourds sits autumn’s queen
Reminiscing of her lost innocence,
Upon her throne of evergreens
Weaving a tapestry of reveries of younger days gone by!
When autumn’s beauty gives way to winter...

Autumn's beauty does fade and wither
Yet life goes on beyond the grave...
For even in the icy grip of death
Lies beauty and rebirth!



© Mary Aris, All rights reserved.

Character of the Month of September

Name:  Princess Mary  Rose

Date of Birth:  7th April

Parents:  The Majesties King Anthony and Queen Anne of Carlisle

Residence:  Carlisle

Occupation: Royal Princess; heir apparent to the throne of Carlisle later crowned  Queen of Carlisle

Spouse:   Prince Phillip of Aragon

Issues:  Prince Jonathan Anthony Phillip of Aragon; heir apparent to the throne of Carlisle



From the book  Princess Rose by Mary Aris
Copyright 2009  Lulu

Image copyright 2011 by Mary Aris
 All Rights reserved.

Love's Flaming Torch

              I'm writing a new Novel titled Love's Flaming Torch.  It is a story set in Buffalo, New York during 2011.  The story is told in the first person by the Character, Mary Reily, an English Literature student at Buffalo University who met Eric Garcia, a fire-fighter and paramedic who saved her friend, Professor Paul Smith from a burning house.  Eric is hailed as a hero when a series of fires rage through the city and Eric saves several people.  Eric and Mary go on several dates and slowly fall in love.  At first Mary is reluctant to go out.  She is burnt by love very early in her life and is careful not to let anyone hurt her again.  But Eric re-ignites her passion and Mary falls for him; but when she is about to reveal how she truly feels for him she is shocked to find a secret about Eric so shocking that she loses faith in love forever.

           Here is a short beginning piece for the story:

 "Love waits for no man."  That's what I have learned from my ordeal.  Love creeps into one's life no matter how prepared one is.  No one is exempt.  Love ignites like a gentle flame inside one's heart and with time , if one's not careful, the winds of change can fan the flames and next thing you know there is an unquenchable fire  that rages in your soul.  Sometimes the fire  rages for days on end destroying anything in its path; other times it extinguishes quite easily with indifference or disappointments just as easily as it ignited.  For some the fire of love is like a bonfire that warms the soul in the depth of winter.  When you feel this fire burning, you can either extinguish it right away with indifference or let it warm your soul with its' sweet passion.

   I let the fire burn slowly in my heart, warming my coldest nights with the passion of its' incandescence.  Before I met Eric Garcia the fire of love had extinguished from my heart and all was left was an empty void and ashes.  Once upon a time, I too, was full of hopes and dreams.  I thought love was a silly intangible that only happened in romance novels.  Girl met boy, they fell hopelessly in love,  found something in common, got engaged and got married.  That was before I  got burnt by the fire for the first time in my life. I can't believe that I let that creep, Justice, suck me into taking me to my Senior Prom.  He was the class clown.  One kiss was all it took for him to seduce me into accepting to go to the prom with him. I was nineteen at the time.   This was the biggest mistake of my life.  Justice almost ruined my life the night he raped me.  It took four years of therapy for me to even feel comfortable going out of the house.  Brien Thorpe, my therapist, convinced me to take a few literary courses at White Plains University.  That's where I met David.

     I was twenty-two at the time and thought I had met a wonderful man.  David swept me off my feet just like in those romance novels.  He was a student at White Plains University. Like me. he was working towards a Bachelor's degree in English literature.  In a month we became friends and shortly after that we became an item.  Then he proposed to me and I was over the moon.  I had just turned twenty and thought my life was about to turn for the better.  Not only was I going to earn my degree in English Literature the following summer, but I was also going to be a bride.   Then in December of that year, a little before Christmas, I caught David in bed with a swanky freshman.  That's when the fire in my heart extinguished.  That was the end of my love life.  David swore he was drunk and didn't even realize he had brought this girl to our apartment....the apartment we had bought together as a couple with the money we earned working part time.  I threw the engagement ring....a 1 Karat diamond ring which he had bought from a friend of his who owned a  jewellery store on Main Street.  He picked up the ring from the floor,  put it in his pocket and said, "Your loss, Babe!"  Then he looked at this crack whore lying on the bed, gave her a nod and asked her to get dressed.  The game was over.  He picked up his things, opened the door and walked out.  He never looked back.    I never saw David again after this.   Furious,  I stood there with tears in my eyes vowing never to let any sweet -talking man with fire in his eyes waltz into my life again.

      Then I met Eric Garcia and at first I resisted him, putting up an internal fight within myself; telling myself it would never work; telling myself this was David all over again.  But his blue eyes bore through me like an unquenchable fire and won the argument.  There was something about this fire fighter that lit my soul completely.  We went out on a couple of dates and I thought I was wrong about love all along.  Love was this unquenchable fire that raged within one's soul and lit one's soul like a candle.  Then, I learned something so shocking about Eric that extinguished the fire once again-- and for the second time in my life  I was left in total darkness.    I knew Eric was too good to be true and so I resisted telling him how much I loved him until it was too late.  Now all I have left is the memories of Eric  and this little boy who looks so incredibly like Eric.  Every time I look into  this little boy's  blue eyes,  I see Eric.   I learned love's lesson on that cruel September morning in 2011 and it was this:   Love comes into your life and when it does, you should hold on to it; embrace it. Never let Love's candle extinguish because if you do,  in a fleeting moment; in a wink of an eye the sweet flame of love will extinguish forever,  leaving you with nothing but darkness and regret.

Character of the Month

Name:  Bartholomew Barnel
Date of  Birth:   September 7  2008
Residence:  William Wayne Public Library
Diet:   Anything with leaves;  Books
Occupation:  Book Worm;  Story Hour Mascot

From the Book:  Bartholomew
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