Most of you know that I take the whole month of July as my birthday month – mainly because I need and entire month to celebrate the awesomeness that is me! hehehe

Anywho – I’m making my way across the country kicking ass…. and an thought came to me. What happens if some of you out there wanna get me something for my birfday?!

Well here ya go :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/17Y6FCSG01IYV

There’s some very cool stuff on there, that I’d love to have! Not all of it insane…lol

Thank you in advance to anyone who buys me something for me! <3

About three years ago I signed up to take part of NaNoWriMo, it’s an online contest with yourself. You’re to write a 50,000 world novel in thirty days. At the end of the thirty days you upload it to the site. I thought it was a pretty cool idea when my friend Cory told me about it and so I began.

I wrote the first three chapters. It just so happened that my full time modeling career took off at this time too causing me to leave behind the novel I created. I really hadn’t thought about it in the past three years.

Until I was on the road last month. I was clicking around in my computer and found the manuscript and realized that three chapters is the norm for sending manuscripts out to publishers/agents. I figured, what the hell and took the bull by the horns and started writing the rest of the story.

It took three weeks to finish it. Between shoots, while we were driving and at nights in hotel rooms I wrote my little heart out.

At the end of January I had a 41,132 word novel. I was pretty proud of myself. Especially since this was the very first novel that I’d ever finished. I’ve written a few over the years – but I got hemmed up in the editing process while I was writing.

When I got home I bought a few books on writing and publishing and read them through. Now I’m wrestling with the first round of edits.

I’m super excited. I’m hoping that by March it’ll be finished with all the editing and I’ll be able to start querying agents.

So… that’s what I’ve been doing with my first month.

Wish me luck!

Just a quick blog before I post a real one!

Make sure to check out my site www.dereksynklaire.com as it just got a face lift about 10 mins ago!

Let me know what you think

xoxox

Derek

So after a small sojourn on Tumblr, I’ve come back to WordPress. Tumblr, while incredibly fun, is too much of a social network for me.  I need something that’s a BLOG – so here I am, back with WP. The good news is that they’ve updated the shit out of the application so it’s a lot easier to post photos as well as videos within the blog. I actually DON’T have to petition Christ to post a video anymore. Thank God.

So – back to the posting.

xoxo

Derek