What’s going on here?
I’m a NaNoWriMo participant, and on this blog I’ll be posting my completed novel, Of Ambiguous Design. Consider it a gift of art. 
NaNoWhaaaMo?
Oh, you poor uneducated child, you! NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. Every November, lots of people make the decision to pledge their month to writing a novel, of at least 50,000 words. It’s pretty goddamn brilliant. For more information, check outhttp://www.nanowrimo.org/
So what’s your book about?
Ahem. Novel. Please.
Short answer – it’s a meandering, loosely written story of a group of teens, first love, and getting over first love.
Long answer – here’s the description I wrote up for the NaNoWriMo website:
Stewart and Phoebe were doomed to be friends. The alternatives were either to form a suicide pact, or to engage in a brutal bitch fight and let the last one standing be miserable in peace. Neither of these options were particularly appealing, so the two settled on friendship, and did their best to put first their differences aside, and then their similarities – such similarities as being madly in love with the same girl.
Marnie Bellamont is beautiful, smart, funny, and human; traits that draw Phoebe and Stewart to her like moths to a moth-attracting device. They are both in love with her, and they both know that she is never going to love either of them back.
When Phoebe decides to drag Stewart (and her sister, and two of her sister’s friends) along to New York to attend a “Love Addicts Anonymous” group, they both find unexpected opportunities to learn about love, and their different attitudes towards love. For Stewart, it’s a question of where the line between romance and friendship is drawn – for Phoebe, it’s a constant struggle between the decision to hold on to love, or let it go.
Is this your first novel?
Yep. Go easy on me.
Does that mean I can’t give you constructive criticism?
Oh, god, no! I love constructive criticism like I love sprained ankles! Please, do leave me comments. I’ll love you forever for it. And, as any of my friends would tell you, an occasional, healthy whack to the ego is good for me.
Is your novel based on your life?
Sorta. Bits and pieces. Figure it out for yourself.
What will you give me if I read it?
Tender lovin’ and a mental hug.
I am dying of curiosity and I have something else to ask gaack gaack I think I’ll die if you don’t answer!
Drop me a comment on my blog, I’ll get back to you.
