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NaNoWriMo
Entries
My 2004, 2006, and 2007 entries in National Novel Writing Month are both unfinished, although all are close. You are welcome to read them and encouraged to send any feedback to me.
My 2005 entry is not available.
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| Seeking Exile | Beth Anderson is a late-twenty-something marketing specialist living in New York City. She's adrift: between boyfriends, just starting a new job, in need of a cheaper apartment. Instead she finds a sailboat available in a marina on the outskirts of the city and decides to take a step in a new direction.
She moves aboard and begins a new lifestyle while still working at her mid-town corporate job. But what begins as a solution to a tight budget soon becomes a challenge to her sense of self. Her boat, and the access to open water that it provides, lur her away from the world she had, until then, struggled to be a part of. |
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| Trouble in Paradise | Beth has accieved her goal and brought her boat, Double Trouble, to the Caribbean. The journey has brought her new confidence, a deeper sense of adventure, and a completely unexpected benefit: a great new boyfriend.
But then in a series of cryptic email messages, a friend seems to be sending requests for help. Beth can't ignore them, and once again sets off to find her somewhere in the island chain. |
PG |
| Looking for Trouble | After a month-long visit to California, during which Beth and her sister moved her parents into an assisted living facility, Beth returns to Trouble and her boyfriend Terry.
They're planning a long, leisurely cruise through the Caribbean – a time to get to know one another better and forge the foundation of a relationship, or decide they don't want one. But they soon realize that neither of them is cut out for an aimless life. They undertake a treasure hunt sponsored by a sailing magazine, which leads them back to a puzzle first encountered in Trouble in Paradise. |
PG |