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Story Maps

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If you know me, you know that I can't draw at all. But I can trace things pretty well as long as there is enough light. So either at the beginning of the month or back in September, I don't remember which, I saw that other NaNo-er's were creating maps of the countries/towns/cities that they will be using in their stories so I had the idea to create one of my own. When I first had the idea for this I went straight to Google Maps and looked up a couple different towns/cities that I have either lived in or visited and printed out the maps and used them to create the border of my town. The first outline.  After creating the outline, it sat around for a while until just recently when I decided to add more to it. So I created a copy of my outline and went to town adding roads, some parks, and a river. I even included little dots to indicate a library, a theater, a middle school, a junior high, a high school, a train station, a rec center, a shopping center, and an area m...

What's in a Name?

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In 2011 I started working on a story idea that I had that was loosely based on the story of "The Frog Prince" and set in the West during the 1800's. While I liked the idea of having a retelling of a not very popular fairy tale it didn't really take off. Then in 2012 I went to a five day writing course that was given by one of my favorite authors. My idea was refined a bit more and placed in Medieval times and based on the story of St. George and the Dragon. Currently my story idea is a combination of King Arthur and St. George and the Dragon. With a little bit of the story of Moses possibly thrown in as well. Besides the ideas for my story changing all of the time, the name of my main girl character keeps changing as well. While I don't remember what her name was from 2011 - 2013, I do remember all of the names after that. For a while, in 2014, my main girl character's name was Xiomara, because I thought it was really pretty. But after a couple months i...