Blog Tour: Guest Post by Misty Provencher

Cornerstone 

by Misty Provencher 

Release Date: November 7th, 2011

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Nalena Maxwell has been branded ‘The Waste’ at her new school, due to her mom's obsessive paper hoarding. Nalena desperately wants something to change in her life, but when she receives a sign (and it's the wrong dang one) inviting her into a mysterious, ancient community, too much changes. What she knew of her family, what she thought of her life and what she believed about her future, is no longer applicable. Seventeen years worth of family skeletons come crashing into Nalena's life and it is the boy...the one that smiles at her like he wants to hear everything she'll ever say...that already knows her powerful secrets. 
But it is only Nalena that can choose between protecting the life that is already crumbling beneath her feet and the one that might sacrifice everything she could ever have.

Thank you for having me over to the blog, Donna & Jessica!  I was coming to talk about the Cornerstone playlist, but I was thinking it might be more fun to talk about how to play with your playlist.  And make that bugger write your novel.    

It’s an easy concept: Writer has writer’s block.  Needs inspiration to come up with a new story.  Can’t.

Usually, we snatch a shiny idea out of the air, stuff it in our shoe where no one can see it, and then hunker down behind our Itunes screen to sample the spread of the land until we sync our playlist perfectly with our plot.  But there’s another way.  

If you find yourself plotless, why not try grabbing the dog by the tail and working your way up to the ears instead?  Build your story by piecing together songs you love.   

For example, I randomly chose 5 older songs from my Itunes library:

Harder to Breathe ~ Maroon 5

Real Word ~ Matchbox 20

Hair of the Dog ~ Nazareth

Carnival ~ Natalie Merchant

An Innocent Man ~ Billy Joel

Just playing with titles, I came up with an innocent man who is a raging alcoholic.  The alcohol begins to alter him physically every time he drinks it, like a Jeckyll & Hyde potion, and the dude ends up forming a traveling circus, with himself as the main act.  Some people think he is a god.  Some think he’s the devil.  The problem is, every deformity is gone in the morning and in order to keep his circus moving, he has to drink more and more each time to get the illusion to remain, until he drinks himself to death.

Look, I didn’t say every idea would be brilliant.  

But every idea is an idea and those can be cooked up into a bigger, better ideas.  

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