Day 4: Word Count 1632, Pages 4

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He leaned back and smiled. She noticed he wasn't wearing a shirt, and his long hair was spilling around his shoulders. Incredibly, she found herself noting that they were nice shoulders. There were dark hairs curling around his deep-violet nipples, each pierced with a simple, silver hoop. His chest was nice to look at as well.

His fingers went to one of those hoops, gave it a gentle tug, then slid slowly down over his stomach, towards the dark hairs curling around his belly button. He played lightly with the hairs emerging from his black jeans. The top button was undone.

She remembered herself then, and her eyes flew up to his face. He was smiling at her lazily, like a man aroused and assured his lover was about to meet his needs. She blushed and tried to turn away, quickly reminded of the cuffs that bound her.

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Day 4 Update

Yes, I let 2 whole days slip by without writing anything. Oh well. I was in mourning. Visit mysie.com if you'd like to know just how much I hate George W. Bush.

I'm going to keep trying. That's all I can do. I'm not trying to "win" and finish NaNoWriMo with 50,000. I'm just trying to keep working at it. It's about all I have the energy for at the moment. Here's to hoping the weekend will be kind to me.

Day 1: Word Count 464, Pages 2

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Rape And Incest Survivors' Internet Network Support System
> Recovery
> Recovery is over: tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life!!!

Author: SsynIsBeautiful
Date: 11/1/04 @ 8:07am
Title: "Recovery is over: today is the first day of the rest of my life!!!"

It feels like I've waited all my life for this day to come, instead of a these three years. Three years, 91 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes.

The man of my dreams is coming home to me, and I will finally have a family again. All the nightmares will be behind me. All of the loneliness and pain and depression. Yes, I know, depression can't be cured by a man. But this one... he is just so special. I think they may have to change the rulebook for him.

But you've heard all this before, right? So Lily, when you read this, thanks so much for EVERYTHING. I don't know how I could have endured so much without your kind words and concern. You can finally stop worrying about me. :)

Author: TaintedLily
Date: 11/1/04 @ 9:22am
Re: "Recovery is over: today is the first day of the rest of my life!!!"

I hope I haven't missed you, Ssyn. You know my feelings on this topic by now. I don't know what else to say. Please don't go to him tonight. It's public knowledge that this man is dangerous. And on his first day of freedom, he will be amazingly unstable. And desparate.

Please Ssyn, just take me up on my offer to meet and discuss this. Just once. You can put off your reunion for one day, can't you? Just one day? I swear you won't regret it. Even if I can't convince you, at least I can finally give you that hug we keep promising to each other.

You have my email address. Or we can chat so I can give you my phone number. Don't you finally want to meet after all this time? Then you can go see him tomorrow. OK?

I hope you read this before going out.

Author: SsynIsBeautiful
Date: 11/1/04 @ 9:34am
Re: "Recovery is over: today is the first day of the rest of my life!!!"

Lily, I always hoped we'd be able to meet. I would have loved that hug. But I've always know that we never can. I must continue my stance of being secretive. You'll just never understand how much I love this man. No one approves of him, not even you. You've been so supportive, I won't hold it against you. But I can't ever meet you. I won't be coming back to the board again. My life will be so different after today, I don't think I'll need it anymore. Take care of yourself, ok?

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Day 1 Update

So I looked it up. Last year's entry, simply titled "Rebecca and Luke", reached 39 pages. 14,574 words. That's what, a quarter to goal? The thing that I'm happiest about accomplishing with that is that a year later, and I still think about the characters frequently. I hope to one day pick up where I left off.

I think I've set a harder task for myself this year. I've only ever written romances up to this point. Some of them paranormal, some of them not. This year's attempt will be horror. I didn't quite grasp the possibilities until today, but after just 36 hours to think on it, I think the idea could definitely become a book, and not just a short story. But I'm about ready to pee my pants at the prospect of changing genres. It will not be paranormal horror either. More suspense-horror. Not that I'm convinced I can write suspense. But horror should be easy enough. As long as the words keep flowing. Come to me, words, I beseech you! NOB, is that how you spell beseech?

Anyhow, a few words on the subject matter. Anyone who knows me through my blog should be well aware of my fascination with sex and writing about sex. Just because I'm trying my hand at horror does not mean there will not be sex. In fact, the sex is the horror. I'm not sure how much of the actual work-in-progress will get posted here, but I'm going to put up the entire opening, a kind of prologue, so you can get an idea, if somewhat sketchy, of where things are going. After that, you can judge for yourself if you care to continue reading what I post here.

Until tomorrow then, I say Goodnight.

Welcome

This will be my second year participating in National Novel Writing Month. Last year I didn't get very far. I'm not sure I can achieve even that level of pages (40? I'll check later). But I woke up with an inspiration, and I'm going to run with it. We'll see in a month how far it can take me.