Hello! I am posting this a bit later than I was hoping to but my day off went pretty well in the writing vain. The next two days at work have just ravaged me however.

But you ladies and gents don’t want to hear about work, you want to hear about crazy stories and successful inspiring tales about how a writer dusted off the old keyboard and descended into the depths of their own creativity. Am I right? Well! Let me tell you a little about what I wrote!

I just recently watched Disney’s Frozen, and enjoyed it quite a bit. My idea was to write a new Disney film using some tragedy and heart-warming story about love and responsibility. What I came up with was fun to write (In fact, despite not hitting 10k like I had hoped, I’m still going past there) and keeps on going!

The story starts off by introducing you to Arnica “Wolf’s Bane” Montana, a tall, muscular blond man with a beard and devilish grin.Most likely from a nearby mountainous region around the 1200s, he is a hunter by trade but by using a crossbow. He is rushing home to his wife, who is having their first born and stops for pie during his rush home.

It is shortly after this you meet the young Luna, sadly only to lose her mother at birth. This leaves poor “Arni” to try and raise the poor girl the best he can in their tiny one room house. As she grows however, the first full moon that comes along transforms her into a wolf pup to which she howls, sending her father searching for wolves close to the house.

The werewolves in my story have the unfortunate side effect of transforming in direct moonlight (Moonlight being the name of the story) and out of direct moonlight in the four days leading up to and after the full moon (when the moon is considered most powerful). This leads poor Arni to block all of his windows by boarding them up. Also, during the early years, Luna cannot recall her transformations. It isn’t until she gets her friends into trouble (which they don’t make it out of in my story) and remembers it as if it were a dream at thirteen that she starts to consider something is different about her.

While Luna is young, the pup is cute and cuddly, not seeing Arni as a threat in the least. There are many nights Arni goes to bed cuddling his daughter, only to wake up face to face with a wolf. However his curfews start to bother her as she grows older and they begin to get into more fights. Arni finds if they have a fight near a full moon and she transforms, the wolf is particularly savage. Luckily for him, any wounds suffered trying to calm the wolf can be attributed to his hunting of wolves. He gets scratched in the face and narrowly avoids losing an eye. A few days later when Luna sneaks out, he is forced to hunt her down and bring her back but the townsfolk begin to start rumours and Arni decides it would be best to head for a place called Nevernight, where the sun only sets for an hour and the moon itself never makes an appearance.

This is where I am up to in my story (at a total of just over 9k words) and I am hoping to get back to it soon. The land of Nevernight will have its challenges and father and daughter will have to work together to stop the evil behind the town’s lack of a moon, but at the risk of losing a possible good home for Luna where she wouldn’t worry about her transformations. Maybe I cure her? Maybe she meets her wolf prince? Who knows… I’m not there yet!

But I have failed in the act of hitting my 10k for one day and that makes me sad.

Luckily I have this wonderful story to write, which will distract me from that sadness. My advice? Get out there and put down words! One after the other! With punctuation and verbs, maybe some nouns! Writing is the only thing that gets you over not writing.

Although I leave you with the ultimate irony: I bought a time management book to help me achieve my goals… sadly, I haven’t found a moment to read any of it yet… :-/

Good luck fellow writers and thanks for stopping by! How goes your progress? I won’t (Read: Can’t) judge!