An Excerpt
NaNoWriMo story is up to 8312 words. Today, I wrote a chapter that made ME cry! (Most of the story is not quite so dismal, though.) Here is an excerpt. (I should add that this is not an autobiography. It is fiction.)
How do you describe an event so wrenching that it shatters the very core of your soul? And how do you go one step further, putting it into typed-out words, stark in their pain as they glare back at you from the icy display of a computer monitor? Truly life-altering traumas can hit as suddenly and unexpectedly as bombs from an unseen enemy...with equally devastating results. The first time I was hit with such a life bomb, I was only sixteen.
How do you describe an event so wrenching that it shatters the very core of your soul? And how do you go one step further, putting it into typed-out words, stark in their pain as they glare back at you from the icy display of a computer monitor? Truly life-altering traumas can hit as suddenly and unexpectedly as bombs from an unseen enemy...with equally devastating results. The first time I was hit with such a life bomb, I was only sixteen.
5 Comments:
That was great. I hope some day to read all of it.
By honeybee4, Nov 03 09 7:20 PM
How does it go? Write what you know....
A small part of you will be in your story Beth. That's what will make it unique!
Keep up your momentum and remember to Eat, Rest and Hug the Kitties! :)
By MarchHare007, Nov 03 09 7:27 PM
Goodness, that's some introduction! More please. Lots more.
By lesley153, Nov 03 09 7:43 PM
Waiting....
waiting....
waiting....
By Deunan, Nov 03 09 8:00 PM
9546....
By bionic4ever, Nov 03 09 9:20 PM