A History of Silence | A NaNoWriMo Journey Begins

Today at approximately 3:30 AM I woke and started drafting an outline for my 2014 NaNoWriMo project, “A History of Silence.” I have had the general idea for the story for a few months, but it didn’t become the solidly build skeleton of three-act structure until today.

A History of Silence is the story of India, a young girl who must fight the silence inherent in her abusive upbringing to solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.

For years, I was a pantser, and I never made it to 50K in N...