The last time I updated you all on my NaNoWriMo progress, Stan was dead in the bar, Moe had fled to sunny Mexico, and Angel Bell was beside herself with grief, eating Bon Bons in the dark in her trailer.

That meant I had less than half my 50,000 words, and no main character left to write about!  I had no idea what would happen next.

Well, it took 2 days out of my precious 30 for NaNoWriMo, but I finally came up with a solution to the problem: Angel Bell would have to become my main character.  There was simply no other way.  She would also have to get out of the trailer park and move to New York City.

You might be thinking that NYC = cliche, and you might be right about that, so I won’t dispute it.  However, New York is the only big city locale I have knowledge of… so off to “The Big Apple” it was!

I think posting an excerpt at this point would be boring – you can all feel free to correct me if I am wrong – so I’m just going to list out for you what’s gone down so far:

• Angel Bell has decided that her name can no longer be Angel Bell.  It can’t even be Darlene anymore, if she’s serious about leaving her past behind her.  So now she goes by Maddie, which is short for her middle name, Madeleine.
• Maddie has landed an awesome apartment by rooming with Jenna, a fellow twenty-something in need of a roommate after being demoted due to the financial crisis, who she found on craigslist.
• Jenna is a bit… loose.  She keeps trying to get Maddie to join her in her escapades, but Maddie is anti-relations of any kind with men.  She feels they always end badly – and quite often with fire.
• Maddie is about to take a job as a makeup consultant at a salon.

I’m not sure what else is in store for Maddie’s new life.  It’s possible that Ernie is going to show up in an Elvis suit and profess his undying love for her – he was pretty torn up when she moved away, you see.  Or, she might become famous after Oprah gets wind of her sad backstory.  She also might just be a regular girl from now on… who knows?!  My word count is 31,617 – that means I’ve got 18,383 words left to make it interesting!

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