U got the Look - Nano peak!

This morning I had a wonderful surprise, I had been tagged by the lovely and talented Annalisa Crawford, unbeknownst to me there us a meme circulating blogland (thats how long I was out of the loop with Nano). Its called 'U Got the Look'. As Annalisa says 'if you haven't seen this meme yet, you track down the first mention of the word 'look' in your WIP and then post the paragraph(s) surrounding it'.

I follow Annalisa on Twitter (and she me) and somewhere around early October the topic of NaNoWriMo came up I remember suggesting that if she was going to do it then I would! So I hold her partially to blame for my inane ramblings that have become an extremely rough draft of a novel.

Here is the first occurance of the word 'look' in my novel (all is subject to change of course!)

Rob had been unable to sleep, he was like a kid at Christmas, he had been up since dawn getting ready for work.  The preparation that had gone into it had been done with military precision. He wanted to look his best, he no longer had the uniform which over the years had become his battle armour, what he wore today would set the tone for the rest of his police career. He wanted it to be good. He felt the happiest he had in a very long time and a wry smile danced on his lips. He was a new man today and this was his new identity that he was creating.

I am never sure about passing these things on but during Nano I was lucky enough to be part of an elite team, we word mongered together and cheered each other on and it was invaluable support without which I am not sure I would ever have finished. I thank them all and would love another snippet of their novels....so I have picked just three (so they can nominate others!)

Laura, Miranda Kate, and Meg