• Nanowrimo

    Nanowrimo Update.

    A quick Nanowrimo Update:  I have finished the rough draft of the book I’ve been working on!  Woo Hoo!  Since Oct. 28 I’ve added a total of 51,700 words to the rough draft. I’m sitting on 41,411 words for Nano itself so I have a bit of a way to go until I can say I win.  Since I need to sit on the rough draft for about a month so I can look at it with fresh eyes it’s on to book 2!  I have a general idea for this book in the series but I know enough about how I’m going to start it so I can at…

  • Nanowrimo,  Writing

    Nano Update

    Just a very quick Nanowrimo update:  Up until yesterday everything was going very well and I passed the 25k word mark on day 7!  Then I woke up with a sore throat on day 8 and it got progressively worse as the day went on.  The good news is I did my duty and got out to vote yesterday.  The bad news is by the time I was done my eyes were burning and it was hard to breath easily with my nose stopped up and my word count suffered drastically yesterday for it.  Only about 345 words were written yesterday so bleh.  Definitely not as good as my 6100…

  • Accountability,  Nanowrimo,  Writing

    Friday!

    Yay!  It’s Friday and day 4 of Nanowrimo!  So far so good for me this Nano but I don’t want to jinx it so I won’t put into words just how awesome and great I feel like this week has been going.  Or, you know, more words than I just did. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 5th is Double up Donation day for Nanowrimo.  It’s a day that encourages you to double your daily or total Nano word count and to also double up your donations to the site.  There will be virtual write-ins and word prompts all day long and a chance to win awesome prizes all day long on the…

  • Nanowrimo,  Writing

    Nanowrimo!

    Just a quick update for the first day of Nanowrimo.  After several fantastically successful writing days at the end of October of course November first had to give me fits.  But I’m pleased with how the day turned out after such a rocky start.  I’m going to end the day with a final first day word count of 5,803.  Not too shabby.  I believe it’s the best start I’ve ever had and I’m fairly confident in saying that most of those words were not terrible.  Any day I can say that is a great writing day.

  • Starting,  Writing

    Happy Friday!

    It’s Friday!  It’s also the boy child’s birthday and party this weekend so the next couple of days are packed for me.  I have relatives that will be pulling into the driveway any minute now so this is probably going to be a very quick update/accountability post.

  • Writing

    Everyday Accountability

    It’s the second full week of school for my Kiddos so it’s also the second full week of being able to say that I’m a full time writer.  But oh boy!  Look at all of those excuses to procrastinate! And that has been the struggle the last week and a half. While in my mind’s eye I envisioned myself sitting down to work on editing my rough draft as soon as the kid’s were off to school that first day – the reality was ugly.  I panicked with so much free time and ended up not being very productive when it came to writing.  But, and there’s always a but,…

  • Starting,  Writing

    What do you do?

    So I decided that I would start up a blog chronicling my writing and my attempts at publishing said writing. I also realized pretty early on in the planning stages that the website was also my attempt to justify being able to call myself a writer.  That’s an idea I’ve been rolling over and over in my thoughts since it reared its ugly doubt-provoking head: Do I have to justify that title to myself or anyone else?  I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, mostly using it for pure fun and enjoyment but other times using it as a way to escape the more difficult times in life.…