I just wrote an amazing entry, a whole page long, then Internet Explorer shut down before I could post it.  So I'm going to try to recreate it.

I saw Twilight this weekend.  It was really cool, but I felt that something was missing.  There wasn't enough romance.  Mike was funny, though.

My flight to Chicago is tonight.  After we land, we'll be driving to Iowa, to my Grandma's house.  On Thanksgiving, all of my Dad's side of the family will be at her house and we'll have our big Thanksgiving meal at lunch and open presents after that.  We open presents because we celebrate Christmas with that side of the family on Thanksgiving.

It's a bit late to tell you, but I joined NaNoWriMo.  NaNoWriMo is where you try to write a 50,000 word novel between November 1st and November 30th.  I'm at about 25,000 words, so I need to write 25,000 more in the next four days.  Great...  I'm going to try really hard to finish it, even though I'll be on vacation.

I haven't been writing my main book, Lily's Tree, because of my NaNo novel.  My NaNo novel is called ShadowDancer and, in case anyone is interested, you can moniter the rest of my progress here.

I'll see if I can update from Iowa and tell you about my Thanksgiving.

-Shannie

Breaking Dawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one week, I will be standing in line for Breaking Dawn.  And I will be in the front of the line, oh, trust me.

And, in other news.  I have written chapters 1-8.  I think that's an accomplishment, considering it took me one year to write that for the last draft.  But the last draft also reflects my silly sixth grade-ish-ness.  The first draft was also never completed.  Draft number 2 is way better.

In other Lily's Tree related news, I had a breakthrough today!  An epiphany, you could call it.

I came up with a plot for the fourth book that actually makes the other books make sense!

It's amazing, I know.

But the problem is, it no longer matches the title of the book: Lily's Sacrifice.  I have a better name for it, but it doesn't go with the whole "Lily series" thing that's going on.

So now, I'm going to rename all the books, except the first.  The only one I'm having trouble with is the second book.  I would ask for your help, but you don't know the plot!  Ha, ha!

If you're wondering, here are the original and new names for each books:

Lily's Tree: Lily's Tree
Lily's Flower: idk
Lily's Krystal: Crystal's Journey or Crystal's Power
Lily's Sacrifice: Katrina's Future or Katrina's Power
Lily's Story: The Grace Story

-Shannie

I figured out how to add a blog, so the homepage is no longer a blog, but it's now a homepage!

In other news...

Two days until the one year birthday of my favorite book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I am a Harry Potter obsessive).  I'm going to have a Harry Potter marathon in honor of it.

I have published chapter five of Lily's Tree onto my blog (in the links section) so you can view it there.  I think I'm going to start putting the chapters on fictionpress.com at some point, so I can get more feedback, but I'm not quite decided, yet.

I'm going to be spending almost three days straight with my friend.  She's coming over all day on the thirty-first for my birthday party, then we're going to the Breaking Dawn release party the next day, all day.  I'm super excited!  Breaking Dawn is going to be almost as exciting as the Harry Potter release party, only I'm more prepared for this.  I'm going to get a wristband and camp out, because I want to be as close to the front of the line as possible.  I'm also going to try to prevent another breakdown, because I had about three last year!

I've been wondering, once I finish my book, how do I get it published?  And how long will it take it to get published?  I don't know.

-Shannie