Day 14
Week Two Check-in
Week two finds me playing a lot of catch up once again. Weekends seem to steal my writing time.
I’m about halfway done chapter 27 on Book One. I’m going to end it at 30 chapters. There are only a few loose plotlines left to tie up that won’t carry on into Book Two. My list of plot points to happen in the sequel is done, as is the list for carried over storylines.
Character profiles need to be updated, though seems as there is still character development potential in the remaining chapters, it will wait until after chapter 30.
That’s week two. A bit of progress, and another week closer to NaNoWriMo. Onward…
Day 15
Cast Your MC!
Lindsay Rowland
(Disclaimer: The following images are not mine, just some off Pinterest I use for character inspiration. They have no official affiliation with the book series.)
Lindsay Rowland is a 14-year old girl growing up in Lethbridge, Alberta, and is from an abusive home. Her mother and stepfather are more invested in their individual and collective addictions than they are in parenting. More often than not, Lindsay is sneaking out of the house to meet up with her friends who keep her sane and alive. She likes to party and is obsessed with music.
She has dreams despite her grim life. Lindsay wants to be a rock star one day.
She’s also the only child of prominent home town rock star, Dagan Rowland. Lindsay has never known her dad. Anything she knows of him comes from tabloids, media and his music.
Feeling abandoned and forgotten, Lindsay is quickly self-destructing and giving up on herself. Drinking, smoking, dropping out of school and she’s suicidal. Treading a sharp edge where she’s ready to simply vanquish into the darkness where she’s drowning.
The outside world sees a tough, sarcastic, rebellious girl who doesn’t want to do anything with her life but hang around her hometown and throw everything away.
Yet her friends see something far more. Rex, Harley, and Sarah know Lindsay as loyal, compassionate, fiercely protective of those she loves, highly creative, bright and as a dreamer who is mature beyond her years. Knowing her parents aren’t helping her out, she is as independent as she can be and hell-bent on making it out of that prairie town, with a little help from her friends, who want to start a rock band, with dreams similar to hers.
She is a hurricane against adversity. A storm in the middle of a clear summer day, raging with truth, injustice and a lifetime of agony and trauma. Spinning in place yet so lost in the chaos, trying to find something to live for despite it all.
