An Introduction to my new WIP – NaNoWriMo incredibly soon + characters, excitement and aesthetics!!

I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this year and I’m SO excited but pretty scared! Last year was my first time participating in NaNo and it was a pretty GOOD experience considering I managed to write 50k…of trash! But like, I DID IT. I was incredibly proud of myself and I want to do it again this year and since I have experience, hopefully, I won’t overwhelm myself TOO much. But I DO have Mocks in December for two very important exams and I don’t want my grades to be bad. So there’s that! I’ve been plotting all of October for my new book and I’m so excited to introduce my WITCH WIP! My NaNoWriMo Account

what is it about?

Every year, in the small town of Boatcliff (town name is ? atm), one person goes missing. Even with in-depth police investigations and internet discourse, no one is ever found and they’re all forgotten. But one person likes to remember – Blake Sanderson. He’s become obsessed with the town’s mystery and when he meets Bryn, who begins to answer his questions, the mystery starts to unravel dark family secrets, tragic pasts and newly found love.

I love how blurbs don’t incorporate HALF the stuff the book is about and this is kind of vague, but I hope it gives you an idea of what the book is about!! There’s like a LOT more stuff in the book but I don’t want to just tell you everything that happens. other things to note:

• themes: friendship, loving, toxic love, parents, coming to terms with your past
• dark and spooky but also very autumn themed!! I LOVE SETTING BOOKS IN AUTUMN, especially because I’m writing it In THAT SEASON so the vibes of the book just become SO good.
• I feel like because my characters are about 15/16 they have to go to school RIGHT but like,,, WHO CAN BE BOTHERED TO WRITE EDUCATION INTO THE NARRATIVE. This is the MAIN thing bugging me, oops.
• I do not plan to write an outline! They just don’t work for me at the moment and that’s okay! I PLOT my novel a lot but writing scene by scene is just not how I work.
• It’s an urban fantasy and it IS set in a made-up town in England (I didn’t want to set in a foreign place like Germany because that requires research and it’s so much easier to write about places YOU KNOW AND LIVE IN.)
• BOATCLIFF IS A TEMP. NAME FOR THE TOWN. please help me come up with better ones.
• there’s going to be LAKES and PUMPKINS and FORESTS and SECRETS and MYSTERIES and MAGIC and WITCHES and uh ice cream!!
• I might be making a playlist for this after NaNoWriMo is over!
• I AM JUST SO EXCITED.

I also did a lot of plotting which was mainly just drawing things that I felt inspired by. I AM NOT AN ARTIST – these do NOT look pretty at all! This was me exploring ideas, themes and colours to get a better hold of my book!

characters

I have 4 main-ish characters and I haven’t discovered everything out about them YET.  Their ethnicities are vague so far, surnames are always debatable, and family lives AREN’T ENTIRELY figured out just yet! So there’s still a lot to do.

BRYN LEE

introvert ~ funny ~ kind ~ warm-hearted ~ talkative ~ anxious ~ likes to read books ~ loves photography ~ Asian ~ obsessed with water (lakes, oceans), Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff  – she/her

BLAKE SANDERSON

ambivert ~ loyal ~ trustful ~ guards his emotions ~ obsessed with mysteries ~ loves danger and spooky things ~ outgoing ~ italian(?) Gryffindor and Hufflepuff ~ he/him

AMBER MEHTA

chaotic ~ spontaneous ~ desi ~ loves lipstick ~ dying her hair ~ obsessed with fashion, extrovert ~ likes parties ~ outgoing ~ risk taker ~loves food ~ Slytherin ~sassy ~ she/her, curvy (tiniest, TINIEST bits of Nina Zenik in her character)

SAM HANSON

Introvert ~ loves to code ~ has an ice cream van ~ very picky about his clothing, financially disadvantaged ~ likes to play the piano ~ skinny ~ Ravenclaw! (to be honest, Sam is the least fleshed out character so far!!) ~ he/him

(the last two don’t have aesthetics even though I’m desperate to make one for Amber but they take a LOT of time!!)

AESTHETICS

Now my Pinterest board for my Witch WIP IS NOT PRETTY!! There’s no theme, no colour scheme, this was me plotting my novel and looking at all possible ideas. So half of these things aren’t even relevant to the story anymore but here it is anyways!

Are you doing NaNo this year? What’s your WIP about, I’d love to know!! Do you like making aesthetics and do you use Pinterest for writing? Have you ever made a playlist for your WIP?