A mirror that shows the past
Stay too long and it will take you too.
Perhaps it already has...
Protect her;
Protect yourself.
They want what she holds-
Check behind you.
It's on the phone,
Expensive secrets,
Is she who she says?
How much does she really know?
Now it's too late to run.
The house calls.
Answer the riddle
And maybe you'll go free.
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The short poem above was written after I woke up following the dream that inspired my next novel. As you may have noticed, it is primarily a creepy, horror type story, which I have not done for NaNoWriMo so far.
NaNoWriMo, for the uninitiated, stands for National Novel Writing Month. Participants in NaNoWriMo spend the month attempting to write 50,000 words of a novel, which equals roughly two hundred pages in print form. It takes place in November, although there are summer months as well in April and August. NaNoWriMo is an international event that takes place primarily online, although many communities around the world have local events planned by Municipal Liasons. This is my 13th time partipating, including the discontinued Script Frenzy (100 pages of a script in a month) and the many Camp NaNoWriMo events I've done.
My novel this month is titled "Mangled Reflections". The novel follows five university students, who break into an old abandoned house on Halloween. In the basement of the house, they come across an old partially shattered mirror locked away in a hidden room. When they look into the mirror, instead of seeing themselves, they see little girls covered in blood banging on the glass from the inside.
And that is the basic summary of the beginning of the novel that I'll be starting on the first of November. If you would like to participate in NaNoWriMo as well, I have linked it at the bottom of this post. Good luck, take care, and until next time,
-Zero
NaNoWriMo Website: http://nanowrimo.org/
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