Well, this is embarassing...

        So I had my first blogging anniversary. Yay! It's awesome! But, umm, I kind of dropped the ball on the whole celebration post thing. Yeah, it was on the 23rd, right in the middle of NaNo and baby goats, and I plumb forgot! I had much awesomeness planned (not that much, actually), but it was not to be. Perhaps next year.

        I will not let this go without saying the things that need to be said, however. This blog would not be here without all of you lovely people who read it. You all are wonderful and I am so glad to have met you. And special thanks to Maribeth of Formidable Courage whose blog inspired this one (if you haven't been over to her website go and do so directly - it's splendid). And everyone else, equally huge thanks to you too! Love you guys!

Blessings,

Reyna

       

Free Sheet Music Offer

        I am subscribed to Jarrod Radnich's channel on YouTube, and he just posted a new piano arrangement video. He arranged the well-loved Christmas song 'I Saw Three Ships', and it's an awesome piece of music. Here is his video.

        Now, although his music is some of my favorite stuff out there, it's often a bit pricy. I know, I'm cheap. But now through Christmas, he and MusicNotes have teamed up and are GIVING THIS MUSIC AWAY! Yes, for free! So whether you play piano yourself or know someone who might like this, go print it out! It's absolutely free and I know I'm going to love playing it. The link  is here. Enjoy!

Blessings,

Reyna

"It's hysteria. Relief after a near-death experience."

        NaNo's over, peeps. After a whirlwind month of exams and presentations and goatlings and hey! writing, I have more than 25,000 words in my notebook. 25,051, to be exact. Boy, am I glad I only did half NaNo!

        It was tiring. It was stressful. It was cramping hands and loads of pencils and tea. It was amazing. I love my book. My characters are awesome - I know them so well it feels like we're best friends. That never really happened before with any other story I wrote, but even before I started writing, I took a lot of my spare time to write stuff down in my everything notebook about them, and how they talked, and all sorts of other rambling nonsense. And it worked! At least, I think it worked - I guess I'll have to wait and see.
        By no means is my book done. I'm probably not even halfway through the first draft. But it's a start, and now I have only to develop a plan to KEEP WRITING. My continual struggle. Once NaNo's over, I just kind of... Blah.
         So even though I can't share the plot with y'all yet, I'm going to put some pictures on here that I've collected on a secret board on Pinterest.
         This is my main character, Marian, only she's not so skinny as this actress. Isn't it hard to find pictures for characters that aren't perfect looking?!

        This is her best friend. She's quite mischievous.

        Little brothers...

        And sisters...

        And now for some pictures that I'm not going to describe because of Reasons.

        Any ideas? I didn't put any of the giveaway pictures on here so probably not *evil laugh*. I'm sad that NaNo's over, and I'm relieved as well. I'm really glad it did it this year, though, because next year I'll be taking college classes full time and probably won't have this much spare time to write. Maybe I'll just have to do it on the computer, then. Any NaNo experiences from y'all?
        Last, but not least, I want to give a HUGE thank you to the friend who convinced me to do NaNo this year. You made this month an awesome one. And congratulations on winning too!

Blessings,

Reyna

P.S. The post title is my favorite quote from an adventure novel my cousin wrote two years ago for school.