Darkest Before Dawn - Three Chapters

 Hello again! I'm back. :D I thought in an effort to get my book out there I would publish this blog post on my old blog, which I still haven't gotten rid of. :)
    I've published three chapters of "Darkest Before Dawn" on Wattpad! :D After the first chapter it took me forever to finish editing the other two. I have a process for editing this time which is more thorough and therefore a lot slower. I still don't have another editor like I would like to, though. I'm having a lot of fun writing "Tick Tock" and I think that's helped me open up my "Darkest Before Dawn" document again. I haven't started writing in it yet, but I'll get there. I had hoped to get in paperback by the summer using my NaNoWriMo rewards, but I'm not so sure that's going to happen. We'll see. :)
     If you haven't already read the first chapters of "Darkest Before Dawn", then please check it out. If you like it, please vote for it by clicking the little star above each chapter. I think if I have more views on my books the easier it will be to encourage others to read it.  :)
     That's all for now. Have a wonderful day! God bless you. :D

National Novel Writing Month of 2014

      Hello again! So it's been awhile since I've posted on my old blog, but I'm back again and with no idea what I'm going to talk about.

     My novel for the National Novel Writing Month is coming along well. I did not wake up in a writing mood today, though. I had to force myself to sit down and write. I reached today's word goal! I have written 41,717 words in Darkest Before Dawn. 

    I downloaded Evernote and am trying to use it as a way to organize my book notes. So far it's working out pretty well. I can sync all my notes from my computer to my tablet so I can have it on the go too. I have moved all my Celestial Trilogy notes to it already. I wanted to put it on my iPod too because I use it more often, but apparently my iPod is too out of date for the app. As far as I know it won't allow me to download an older version of the app. :/  Oh well! Now I have another reason to use my tablet more often. :D 

   Also, pretty random but... I want to see Big Hero 6 soooo bad!!! That and The Maze Runner. The trailers for Big Hero 6 are funny and adorable and I can't believe I haven't gone to see it yet! 

   Okay, I'm done. XD 

  Thanks for reading! God bless you!

August 7, 2014

     For whatever reason I am still having the hardest time deleting my blog. As you've noticed I've had some fun redecorating. I saw some other blogs that use Blogger and the way they designed their blog put me in a designing mood. I'm probably going to do the same thing on Weebly.
     I wanted to do some cool, really long post on this blog, but can't think of anything to say. Well, I've had about twenty-one people read the first chapter of my book Darkest Before Dawn on Wattpad.com. I found out that I could share it on Google+ so once I did that I got more readers. That was exciting. So far I have written 15,841 words in that book. I was a little under 5,000 words short of my word goal for Camp NaNoWriMo.
    The title of this post has no real significance as the others may have. I like giving my blog posts and books cool titles, but the more I post the faster I run out of names. Maybe later I'll think of something and edit my post.
     Anyway, that's all I have for today. God Bless! Have a fantastic day!

JuniorNovelist4Chirst

Wattpad LizzieRise

For The One Who Comes Back

For the person who goes back and checks anyway, just because there's that small chance that maybe something new appeared. Hello! I am that person and I could not resist posting on my old blog just in case you are that person too. I wish I had something cool to share with you, but I don't. *leaves for a couple hours, distracted by other open tabs*
Okay, so I now I do have something to share. XD
http://www.wattpad.com/user/LizzieRise
I'm going to give wattpad a try. Given that my book is only a rough draft I'm kind of unsure about putting it out there, but I have made an account on the site and once I start learning my way around things will get better.
And that's all. Bye! God bless!

Goodbye

Goodbye Blogger.com. Hello Weebly.com! Just making sure that everyone is up to speed on the move to Weebly. Since I have so few followers I don't want to lose anyone. So far I'm not regretting my move to Weebly, but it is a little sad to leave Blogger because this is where I started. I still have so much to learn on Weebly.
Anyway, here's the link again. http://juniornovelist4christ.weebly.com/

We're Moving!

Okay everyone, the time has come. I have my computer back so I've created my account on Weebly.com. The website should still be called juniornovelist4christ and name of the blog is still named Junior Novelist. I will have shared some of the posts that I may have already shared here, but I'll soon be working on a new post. I'm currently proof reading the beginning of the first chapter of Darkest Before Dawn which I hope to share with you soon. I'm still learning how to use Weebly so you may start to see changes to the website over time.
Here is the link to my new blog Junior Novelist

Book One of the Celestial Trilogy

I had just seen the newest Batman trilogy when I was creating my book Darkest Before Dawn. One of the characters in the movie said, "The night is always darkest just before the dawn." or something like that. Those words got stuck in my head so when thinking of what to name my new book, that came to mind. Hence, the title Darkest Before Dawn. Of course, I have to tie that into my book somehow. That was actually pretty easy because of the storyline. Plus, I wanted the book to be the beginning of a trilogy and the title also worked for that. I quickly decided to name the second book Light of Dawn, but I didn't know what I would call the third book. 

I finished Darkest Before Dawn and had even begun Light of Dawn last year. When I began to exam Darkest Before Dawn more closely I discovered that I had introduced too many characters. I was trying to focus on too many characters in one book. Seeing that I needed to fix that I went back to where I'd begun to stray away from the original plot and deleted everything else. That erased  over half of my book. I decided that I would redo everything in the book from that point on. It was a task that I didn't care to do and so I decided to take short break from writing which resulted in a year long break. 

I began writing other things, but this was the beginning of a long dry spell in writing for me. Every book I began to write, failed. During November I gave a half hearted attempt at writing 50,000 words in a month for NaNoWriMo, but I only got 6,000 words. The book I tried was called Invisible. Needless to say I did not attempt to continue writing in that book. I tried writing with Ginny in her book Classified, but that went down hill. That's when I tried Blue Jay and then Remember Ariel, improving my writing a little as I went. I was trying to reach 45,000 words in a month during Camp Nano when I found myself preferring to edit the book rather than write it. That's when I realized it might be time for me to pick up Darker Before Dawn again. 

During that year I had tried to edit Darkest Before Dawn a few times and got bored with it every time. This time I began by rewriting it from the very first chapter. I'm following the same basic storyline as before, but it's a little different. 

I considered only writing Darkest Before Dawn and then moving on to something else, but decided against that. It's now the first book of the Celestial Trilogy. 

The main character in Darkest Before Dawn is Hannah Dawn Scot, but she goes by Dawn. Her name has no connection to the title, that was purely a coincidence.

I wrote a short, incomplete, and kind of lame synopsis that doesn't really tell you much about the book, but it was fun to write so I'll share it anyway. Synopsis:

 Adam Smith, a man with a difficult past who endeavors to face it again. Dawn Scot, a brave girl who dares to venture into the unknown.The two virtual strangers will go on a life altering journey and only at the end will one's deepest secret be revealed. But will it's revolution cost another their life?