NaNoWriMo, Part 2

I don't know why I quit posting pieces of Sassafras, but since nobody ever complained I guess nobody misses it. Just so you know, it ends happily ever after. Maybe I'll finish posting it, maybe I'll just say fuck it. Right now I have something more important to think about. It's almost November. That means it's almost time to write another novel. I took last year off since I'd been puttering around on Sassafras all year, but lately I've been really slacking. I started writing the sequel, and still have a little tweaking to do on Sassafras, but I've been spending more time reading books than writing them.

I should have gone crazy writing while I was on sick leave, but I just didn't feel like writing. I sure attacked the library though. I wonder if there's any way they could look on their computer and see how many books I read. It feels like hundreds. I already started the sequel to Sassafras, so I have to come up with another story to write for NaNo. I've been thinking and thinking, and finally decided what I'm going to work on this time. At least I think so. I have a tendency to change my mind.

Anyway, this time I think I'm going to write a young adult novel about a girl who gets dumped by her best friend when a new girl moves to town. At first all three of them are friends, but eventually the other two decide they would be better off without her tagging along. Part of it is because her mom has a baby and makes her watch the little angel while she works, and part of it is just because her best friend really has more in common with the new girl than with her. If that wasn't bad enough, the man her mom had been seeing, the father of her baby, turns out to be married, and his daughter takes her anger over her parents breaking up on this poor girl. To top it all off, her older brother is upset because his best friend left for college. But they were more than just best friends, they were boyfriend and boyfriend, if you know what I mean. So not only does this girl have to deal with her mom's little soap opera, losing her best friend and avoiding this horrible bully girl, everybody's picking on her because of her gay brother.

I can't decide what's going to happen with her mom and the lying, cheating dog she was dating. I think when she finds out he's married it's going to piss her off so much she dumps him, but she's pregnant so like it or not she can't completely kick him to the curb. I also don't know what's going to happen with her brother coming out of the closet. They live in a really small town, so him being gay is a big deal, especially since he's a star athlete.

I do know what's going to happen with her best friend. She's going to spend all her time with the new girl. And the new girl's older brother. Who impregnates her. In your face, you little ho-bag. But just so her life doesn't completely suck, I'm going to have her end up being friends with the girl who had been picking on her all year. I just can't decide how to work that. I don't think she's going to be really mean, just very angry at her dad and taking it out on the main character.