Original story stuff

For my original story, I actually found two images on the Internet that fit the way I'm picturing Xav and Cenna in my head very well.



Xav, in my head, looks a lot like Sam Claflin, the actor who played Finnick Odair in Catching Fire; I just imagine him a little less 'perfect'. Also, Xav's eyes are supposed to be a bluish green colour and his hair is described as 'sandy'. For the general picture, though, I do kind of imagine him like this.

And then there's Cenna. I love the colour of her hair and eyes in this picture - they're perfect, exactly the way I had imagined them to be when I first made her up. She's supposed to look a bit younger, her features a bit more delicate, her hair a bit curlier; and she's supposed to be covered in freckles. But again, the overall picture is like the one in my mind. I don't know who the girl in this picture is; but when I found this, I was like, "Oh my Oz, those eyes and that hair! That's perfect!"

 

Also, some fun facts about my story:
I gave most of the characters names with a certain meaning (according to a Dutch baby names site, anyway). I'm not going to spoil them all for you, but I'll give you a few examples.
'Cenna' is based on the name 'Canna', which means 'loved one'.
Xav's full name is 'Xalvador', which means 'saviour'.
The name of the king of the country my story takes place in is 'Aedd'; he is named after an Irish king.
The name of the bad guy is 'Mallor', derived from the female name 'Malorie', which means 'dark, black'.
Cenna's brother is called 'Jermain', which means 'brother' (aren't I original? :P).
And of course there is Xav's ten-year-old cousin named Lixanne, who is named after my dear friend Xanne-Li ^_^.

I'm still not sure about which title I want to use, so I'm going to give that some more thought. A friend of mine already promised he'd design a cover for me, though, so I'm really excited for that. It seems more and more likely that I might actually finish this story and that it's going to be my first published book ever! :)

Maddy