 Hey guys, it's Tilly and I'm doing an update on my nano-riMo for you all that we'll be swearing in this video because I find that in this point in time it is definitely needed for me to get all of my feelings out about my nano-riMo so far. How far is my nano-riMo coming along? It's fucking not. I haven't written in a fucking week. And what I have written has been absolute trash. I think the packet of crisps I just written sounds better than what I've written. And to be honest, the only reason I haven't deleted what I've written is because I needed that word count. And even then I'm only sitting on just over 14,000 words. And for some reason I look really fucking pissed off about it, but I'm actually kind of chilled out. I'm not really letting nano-riMo affect my mood too much. Like I'm still so much in love with my story that it doesn't matter if it's going to take me a month to rewrite it, or if it's going to take me three months or a year to rewrite it as long as I still like my characters and I still like where it's going and how much it has improved since the first draft I've done, that I'm kind of happy with that. I honestly don't think I'm going to finish nano-riMo for the first time ever. But you know, I'm totally okay with that. This is 2016, bad things happen, but we all endure and we're going to get through it. So fuck you nano-riMo story. Anyway, you guys know about my characters and if you don't know about my characters, I will leave a link below to the character vlog that I did of my nano-riMo like at the start of the month. I introduced you to my six main characters who are constantly six amazing soldiers who are on a mission of their life. I don't think I've actually told you guys explicitly like what happens in my story. So I'm going to do that for you. You guys will find out my storyline or I'm going to get like totally passive aggressive and swear at myself a lot. So don't hurt my feelings. Basically the way that I picture my book is that it is actually going to be like a five book series because you know, why would you just start with one book? You would just want to completely ruin yourself and fuck everything up by writing five. So that's what I've decided to do. So basically the first book is just meeting my characters and getting people very attached to my characters because what's better than you know, just killing people randomly than killing off characters that people really like. Yes, I am that kind of writer. So we have my six main characters and basically these are just trained soldiers. I don't really know what they're doing. The king hasn't given them any advice on what their future holds. They're kind of on the assumption that they're just going to go and be sent inside the border tower that's where most of the other soldiers go. But at the same time, they do definitely have priorities over regular soldiers. Like the king keeps them in the side of the palace. He had them tutored every single day from a young age. In fact, he sits with them himself. He sends them out on missions daily. So obviously they're not just regular soldiers, but to them they're starting to think like what could he possibly want them for. But the king definitely has plans for them and those plans, you know, they're plans. So my soldiers start off this book on a mission capturing basically this big gang leader and they return him to the king and pretty much he gets arrested and put into the dungeons. And then the king is like you guys can you know, go away for the day, relax. You know, you guys did good. And then he calls in our protagonist who is called Ansley and pretty much tells her that he's sending the group on this once in a lifetime mission. This will deem what their future will hold. And basically it's going to be the first mission they do outside of the palace walls. So they know something's happening then they've got to pretty much find this posing country who they are pretty much at the brink of war with. They have sent a general over the line, which is completely out of the terms of the contract. So they're going to find this general and bring him back to the king. So they have to travel pretty much. They all have their own horses and it starts off that way. One day ride out of the palace and they run into trouble. They find a Baltine regiment that has completely attacked these civilian merchants and a small battle ensues. And you kind of see what the characters are like in these situations. Things don't go too well. So the Baltine group managed to get a few soldiers away. So they are going to pretty much go and send word to this general that's supposed to capture. So they're going to have to change their entire plan of attack now and go secretly to him. So they continue on their journey, not saying any ins. They're not trying to alert anyone that they're staying really covert and like camping out and getting angry with each other and stressing and also very excited because this is like their first big mission. After this, they're going to be able to figure things out and they're happy to get outside the city walls and just hang out together. I'm going to have to like draw a map for this because it's like super confusing, even in my head. But basically the place where the general is staying is on the edge of a cliff. And so originally they were just going to plan on dressing up as the other soldiers and going inside. But once they get there, they realize it's a really tough situation. They have no chance at all of just basically walking through the front gates. Honestly, who has this mind at picking up really different and outrageous plans of attack? She decides that the best they do is to climb up the cliffside because obviously that's how you're going to do it. Because from observing for a few hours, she realized they have no protection at the back of the house where this general is staying because who's going to be stupid enough to climb up the side of the fucking cliff? Them. And they go into this place and they have their plan plotted out which I will figure out when I'm riding because shit man, that's going to be tough. Like it's going to be something that's not only going to surprise the readers, surprise myself, but also surprise the characters. They're on this chase in the general. They have to make a really quick getaway when they've got hold of him because people are now alerted that they're also in the building and one thing leads to another and one of these precious characters end up dying. Then the general also kills in the middle of all this mishap, which isn't too bad. Like the order from the king was to have him dead or alive, preferably alive, but you know, you can't really help it in some situations. So then the other five members of our team managed to escape and we actually witnessed like the ride back and how this death affects certain characters who were their friends with them and it's like hopefully going to be really emotional all of your heartstrings because like even my thought of this character dying absolutely kills me. And I literally wrote this character in to die and they became my favorite character and it's going to gut me. Like I already feel like fucking crying. And then as for the rest of the books in the series, it's going to have different like things happen. There's going to be two wars during the entire series. There's going to be plenty of character deaths happening and I also really want to deal with PTSD in this book as well and people that don't always have happy endings. So I just want to say that like it's going to be one of those series where characters aren't going to be safe even if they're a main character or a favorite character. No one really is going to be okay and it's going to have realistic aspects kind of woven throughout it and hopefully it'll all just come together really nicely. But I don't actually know. Shit, that was a lot of talking. So there you guys have the actual like plots to my book, my first one that is not subject to stay the same. Things can change very easily. Every time like I write the blurb it always sounds like shit so I haven't actually successfully written one yet and maybe it still does sound like shit. I don't really know because I am too invested in this story to even take a step back and look at it as an outsider. So yay for 14,000 words. Nave for not being able to write 50,000 in one month. I just know now it's not going to happen. But don't fear, I'm still going to try to do it. I'm just happy that like things are going well to be honest. So you guys should definitely leave a comment below and let me know how your nanorimer was going or what stories you guys are currently writing or just anything about you. Like how are you guys? Are you guys okay? Are you still happy? Are you reading lots? I love you guys. So anyway, thank you for watching and hopefully I'll see you guys again soon and until then have a lovely bookish day and hopefully great things happen to you. Hey guys, it's Tilly and today I'm here with another T.F. unboxing and if you guys don't know already I pretty much love the way I chronicle this though. I'm going to tear straight into this when I rip it open and I'm going to show you every damn thing that's inside of this box.