Character Update -- Duncan Murreff - Profile picture

One of Honor's heroes, Duncan Murreff as played by Scottish actor Gerard Butler with the hair style from Beowulf and Grendel:



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Novel Excerpt -- Ingram

"Lowrens’ young and only brother Ingram lives in Kilmarnock, whom is a law enforcer that no longer forcibly upholds the law. He passively watches over the valleys to make sure they stay peaceful with two others that help, but are never around when he needs them.

Once in a while, Ingram visits the Murreff farm and brings news of the events that filter to the city. His nephew, Duncan always is intrigued by the news of what is happening with the war for independence. Their conversations of the events, extend late into the nights, have created a bond between the two as close friends. Lowrens is not too fond of it, yet keeps from the interactions. Lowrens is not as disposed as one might think a brother bond would have to his brother, yet an occasional conversation will pass between them. He is afraid that his convictions of the battles have caused interest in Duncan to fight in the war as well. It was not his intention to drive his nephew into such a thing and feels that Murron is unhappy with him for this action. She has assured him that Duncan is making his own decision for this matter and hopes that her father will provide help and thus Duncan will do the same if his father needs help as well."

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Character Update -- Fernand Dumas - Profile picture

For the first time in the history of writing Honor, the characters began having faces. During the 2007 NaNoWriMo event, I chose what my characters would look like if they were to be on screen. My first character, Fernand Dumas, would be played by French actor Jean-Claude Brialy (as if he was still alive in the 1960s):



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MISC. Blog Information

Click on an element to learn more about this blog:

INTRODUCTION

REVIVING THE STORY

STORY DELAY

STORY UPDATE

RICO 25,000 STRONG

Story Update

As of right now, the only thing new for HONOR, is this blog. So, check back to see if there are any even newer things happening.

Novel Excerpt

Click below to read a small excerpt from the unfinished novel:

INGRAM

Character Info

Click below on the Character you would like to learn more about:

DUNCAN MURREFF

FERNAND DUMAS

Reviving the Story

It was only 3 years ago, that Laura starting writing her story again and NaNoWriMo is the organization to thank for this.

After life was passing her by, college, marriage, and full time jobs - she set the story aside on the back burner. In 2004, her husband, Evan joined the National Novel Writing Month to see if he could write 50K in one month. To their amazement, he did more than that! The next year Laura joined him in the journey and attempted the goal, only make it to 13K. To her, that was a great deal of accomplishment, because that 13K restarted her engines for writing the story again. The next year flew by with only 6k and she did not attempt NaNoWriMo in 2006. Only was it that last November did she really get involved into the story. Her word count jumped to 27K with lots of character developments and even illustrations to have visual aids! And to give you an idea of how many pages 27K has, it is roughly 80 pages. That is a loooong thesis paper if you are a student.

Please visit the National Novel Writing Month website to see more details on this great creative writing event. They are a non-profit organization that helps children write stories of their own and also gets YOU pumped to write your own novel. It doesn't have to be 50K to be a winner! You are a winner for attempting at all.

Introduction

Welcome to Laura Parris' Honor Blog!

You have landed on a site to experience the makings of a historical fiction story that Laura has been working on for over 10 years. It was started in her senior high school English class after watching Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart' and the need to write a senior paper on a historical figure. Thus William Wallace was the object of her paper. Fascinated by Wallace's struggle to make Scotland a free country, she had an idea to create a story that surrounds his most historical event at the Sterling Bridge battle. Keep in mind that even though he is a non-fictional character, the surrounding events of the battle and main characters are fictional.

Come back frequently to see updates on characters, read story excerpts and comment on what you think about it.