Narrating

Cole read and recorded the first chapter of Blue: Secrets, and it sounds so good.  I got chills.  :)

NaNoWriMo!

So, in case you didn't hear, I finished my NaNoWriMo novel this year!  It's about 56,000 words long, and I love it!  It's about a 1920's girl whose family went broke, and now she's stuck in her country home with nothing to do, so she goes crazy and runs away to Chicago to have some gambling fun! 

This story came from a dream I had a year and a half ago, specifically one part of one of the last chapters, which of course I can't tell you about!  I woke up thinking, dang, I want to write that.  My boyfriend had woken me up right before the scene finished though, so I didn't get to find out what happened! ARG! But I knew anyway, I just wanted to 'see'/dream it :)

So after edits and multiple drafts, I will send out queries for it. Wahoo!

Book 2

I saw the new Alice in Wonderland movie on TV the other day, and loved just listening to the music for the credits. Alice's Theme by Danny Elfman. He rocks!  Sometimes I think certain songs would work for my book, and although this is "Alice's" Theme, I love the feel of it, the urgency of it. :)

No Excuse!

Haven't posted for awhile!  Why?  Oh, you know, the usual: work, work, friends, work, game nights, hair playing nights. :)  Yeah.

But that's no excuse!  I need to step up my game here. I need to post more often. I need to stop saying 'need to' and change it to 'WILL!'  I WILL post more often!  I WILL keep writing!

Yours truly,

J.D. Seibel

   ~~Jenna waking up in the field~~

It's Emma!

Remember when I said that Emma Roberts has that Jenna look sometimes?

I then found this picture:

I'm such an idiot, I didn't realize it was the same person...! To me, she looked so different in these two photos.  And then I saw her in an interview on Jay Leno and liked her even more for Jenna. :D 

Then I was looking around on a HungerGames fansite, and they had this guy for Gale:

Adam Gregory

And I thought: 'hmmm, he could almost be Michael!' 

Clothes

So in my writing, fashion and clothes play a big part. Well, maybe not 'big', but, I definitely go into detail. Because, hey! I'm a Project Runway nerd. :)

And so some of you may be wondering what Jenna's dresses look like. Or, maybe you just don't give a *shirt*, but, whatever. I care. : ) (pardon the wheezywaiter reference, I couldn't help myself!!! click on the link there to watch his latest video, and you might be confused if you're not an avid watcher like I am, but he's pretty funny most days, and the editing on his videos rocks! At the end of each video he puts a 'wink' from a viewer that sends one in.)

Anyways!! I describe a few dresses in BLUE, and people seem to have a lot of different ideas about the style I try to convey. BUT! Never fear! When I was in Japan (where a lot of my writing was done) in 2008, I drew pictures!!! :D

K, so this one is the dress that Jenna wears to go salsa dancing with Spencer. :) It's red, and the sash is black.



And this is the one that she gets when she goes shopping with Ruth in Paris. Oooo~ It's supposed to be a deep royal blue.



This is the dress that Ruth buys for that same occasion. It's a lovely light lavender. (sorry this pic isn't very clear.. My camera was freaking out.)


And this one--wait, what? How'd this get in here..? :) This is Ben and Jenna in class. Hehe ~

This last dress is the one that Jenna wears for the Charity Gala Event thinger. The collar is very similar to this photo.

And her dress is something like this. But prettier. And longer. And ...more awesomer? :)

So! Yay for clothes!!

Lately..

Sometimes I wonder, what if I don't ever finish Book 4 and I DIE tomorrow?!?!? Then no one will know what happens!!!! That would be SO tragedies. (um, if you don't get that joke, then you're obviously not a nerdfighter. heh!)

Oh, so I FINALLY got to read The Hunger Games, and WHOA, it's so good! And then I was looking for pictures of who people think look like the main character Katniss, and I found this:

She could ALSO almost, almost, sort of sort of be Jenna. :) Course, she needs to be a little older and have black hair, not brown, but YEAH! I still haven't found just the right person to be her yet. guh... I look at pictures on Flickr and find things that look like my book, but one step at a time! Let's get published!