Category: Nanowrimo

November 3, 2020

Nanowrimo: Non Word Day

Yep. No words today. 

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve gotten when planning a schedule, is to take a look at the month and cross out those days when you know you won’t get to the computer or be able to write due to anything. 

So when I made out this calendar, I put in November 3rd as one of my non-writing days. So what did I do? 

Let’s just say, I’d rather have been writing.  :P 

 

 

November 2, 2020

Nanowrimo: 5,100/80,000

Yay! Second day (morning) done at my 2,500 a day word count. This is a pace I’m hoping I can keep up with since I now work a full time job. And I still love getting at least a little gaming in a day to relax before bed. I was amazed at how fast I did it. I already had the events of the scene/chapter sketched out, and I wrote it between 5:00am and 6:10am. It just happened. 

Now, as we know, the draft I’m writing here, will not be the final product you see. That never happens. At least with me. 

WOOT! 

Book One is shaping up, but I’m already seeing things in Book Two that I need to go back and put in Book One. I’m hoping to have a title and cover for Book Two up at some point during this month, but not before I put up the cover for Book One. 

Here’s to hoping I can keep moving! 

November 1, 2020

Nanowrimo 2,567/50,000

Hello! I exist, and I am alive. 

2020 has been…interesting. I can’t help suspect we all got hit by the Chinese curse, “May you Live in Interesting Times” and we’re hoping to come out of it in 2021. I didn’t get all of my writing goals finished, and this past week has been a bust, with power outages, as well as plumbing problems in my house. Twenty years ago I bought a house plumbed by the world’s worst plumber and have paid that price ever since. Pray I can get my bathtub unclogged this week with new pipping. 

And now, on to something I hadn’t thought about doing in some time. 

NANOWRIMO. 

It’s been a while. So long I’d forgotten my password. But my page at NaNoWriMo.org is up (I think you have to have a nano account to see the page). And I’ll be making my first entry this morning. I followed a bit of Sarra Cannon’s Preptober suggestions and have a synopsis of my Paranormal Women’s Fiction Book Two (that’s the title now because I haven’t thought of one yet) that I’ll be following.

Book One, Mabon Hollow, is in revision and will be sent to an editor this month. I also have a cover reveal coming this month. As soon as it’s released I will announce it in my newsletter, Facebook, and here, with a giveaway. So stay tuned for that. 

First morning of writing went well. I managed 2,567 out of my morning daily of 2,500. I have a smiley face on that. :) 

I’ll be posting here, hopefully every morning, to report on the progress of both books. I have the synopsis for the next Blackstone Witches: Daphne, but that’ll have to wait until I have this book’s first draft finished. I made a bet with a friend that I would finish this, and get back in the habit of posting and sending out newsletters—if I win the bet, I get a new tablet. So yay!