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End of NaNoWriMo

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In a few short hours NaNoWriMo will be complete. Many people have already sent in their verification and “won”, including me. Some are going to be drinking coffee and scrambling for those last few words at midnight. Others had life get in the way, or lost interest along the way.

If you completed your challenge, congratulations! You deserve it!

At the conclusion of NaNo I now have two completed stories. One is 20k words, and the other is 30k. I also have the beginnings for a new sci-fi romance that just popped into my head today, and I got another 1500 words on that, and a complete outline.

But more importantly, I have a good habit of writing. Something I lost a while ago, and have been working on getting back for the last year. I hope that this has started something great.

I’ve decided I need to write or edit three pages a day, at least, if I really want this to be my “day job”. It doesn’t sound that difficult at the moment. Then I have those days where I have to cook dinner, or take children to doctors appointments, or days where I’m just sick, or tired, or fed up with life.

I’m rather happy with this NaNo. I’ve seen people who didn’t understand it, didn’t support their spouse, or thought it was ridiculousness. I am so grateful that my boyfriend pushed me to keep going. I can’t wait to start editing this, and hopefully have it up on amazon within a few months.

Falling Behind

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Ever since I decided that I was going to make a real effort at this “writing thing” I constantly have the feeling I am falling behind. Never so much tonight as I look at my NaNo word count and realize how behind a really am.

50,000 words in a month, and I am behind by 4,000.

Well then… nothing like a deadline to get a person motivated, right?

Osiren’s Tears (Cover)

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This is just the preliminary picture for the cover of “Osiren’s Tears”, which I’m writing for NaNoWriMo.

It is a photo minip, and some airbrushing. Meant to show the first troll cresting the mountains. Here they will descend into the valley where the menaids are setting up their own defenses  and the battle between the first races will begin.

No Plot?

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I’ll be busy November doing NaNoWriMo. The last couple days I finished two outlines for the books I’ll be working on for NaNo. (Osiren’s Tears and Rage War.) So I haven’t had a lot of time for updates here.

I’ve also been watching a lot of videos on writing to get me set in that frame of mind. The one below gave me a couple chuckles so I thought I’d share it.

Some other writers you might enjoy listening to.
“Self Publishing Podcast” and “Better off Undead” With writers Jonny B. Truant, Dave Wright, and Sean Platt.
The Digital Writer With Sean Platt who shares his “rules for writers you love to hate”.
The Creative Penn with Joanna Penn who interviews other writers.

Prepping for NaNoWriMo

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If you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo… well where have you been?!

National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) is a fast pace group effort to churn out as many words as you can. The “Goal” is to write a novel, which is loosely classified as “50,000” words. There are forums, tags, badges, and more at the website where you can get encouragement to get those words out. It’s a wonderful experience!

They now have several school projects that teachers can use in their classrooms, with teaching aids to get kids writing.

I’ve participated in four different years. “Won” twice.

From mid September to late October many NaNo participants are getting ready. Deciding what to write, Nailing down a synopsis, updating info and adding counters to our websites. 

I love that Huge Howey, self published author of best selling book series “Wool”, keeps word counters up on his website year round so that his readers can see his progress on his books. I love that idea. I might be stealing that idea.

So, things will be a little slow around here as I prepare for NaNoWriMo, and get a few things in order. Hopefully that means I’ll actually be writing more, and publishing something just before November, and another something after Novemeber.