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I'm a traditionally and self published author. I write in the genre of children and YA at the moment but working my way up to adults. I'm a sports loving, photo taking gal who loves to sing/dance to my own enjoyment. I love to laugh even at myself. I am also owned by 8 birds and 2 hamsters, and yes they know it. :)
NaNoWriMo, Novel, Writing frenzy

NaNoWriMo: The stretch

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I know I have been quiet. NaNo has kept me busy like it does every year that I work on the frenzy. I been fortunate that the story has been writing itself, literally. There is a lot to be said about writing on what you know.

In my story I picked a region that I am familiar with and a culture as well. You don’t have to know everything in your book when you start, all you need is a thought or idea to carry it through. If you infuse a topic that you are familiar in all one has to do is wrap words around that thought. Yes I am making it sound easy. That isn’t what I am saying. By writing on something you know or are familiar with, you are making it easier to write.

This is what I have embraced in the book:

-My French heritage

-Northern Maine living

-Christian

-Persecution

You can write a lot when you use any of those topics let alone all of them like I have done in my book, “Lost Faith” that is being written for NaNoWriMo 2013. I already know when the 50k words are done, the book will be not complete. I will need to keep on going to make things go full circle. But I do like where it is going. That’s another thing. If you enjoy the book you are writing it is not work not in the sense people might think it.

My word count as of today gets me 11k shy of my 50k word count. I will take a few days off when I reach it to give my hands, neck and shoulders a break from it all. But after that will add to it.

I do enjoy NaNoWriMo where my sole goal is to win and worry about the book later. But when you are enjoying the book as it develops that is just icing on the cake.

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NaNoWriMo: I caved

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I caved. I caved caved caved. I just wrote a post last week how I was not going to do NaNoWriMo 2013. On Friday I opened up a word document so I could jot down some ideas for a book. I ended up with over 3k words by the end of the day. The fever had reached me subconsciously. I scold and reminded myself why I was not doing this frenzy. I don’t have time. I need to work on the book that just got released. My doctors will not be happy.

But the fever that started within me in 2011 has never left. The fire of writing a book in November each month still lives. My stubbornness with this is to win. To do anything else is not an option for me. They may not be 60k great words but there will be 50k words before November is out. That is the plan.

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This is how I started my NaNoWriMo book for 2013:

The devastation came silently. No one knew it was coming until it was too late. The quiet killer the perfect weapon. No one had a chance.

War had been rampant in the Middle East for years. But the US had always been able to keep it at bay from their native shores for the most part. But there were some things they couldn’t stop. The virus that coursed through the veins of millions of Americans. It started with the young, the elderly and the weak.

But that was not enough. More was to come. No one could prepare for what was next.

I wrote this on my Facebook page and my peeps welcomed me into the collective, knowing that this was bound to happen. Not one was really shocked. People have given me some good comments to the above opening. I like it. As of Monday night I was at a little over 14k words.

Stay tune. Hopefully this is not a foolish dream to complete and win NaNoWriMo for 2013.

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Spider: We all need hobbies

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Every now and then we need to stop and smell the roses and step back from our writing. One way for me is to take pictures. This was taken at a small park in town. I love the fact I got it when the spider was spinning its web. This is just icing on the cake.

It took me a bit of time to take this photo. I had to make sure I did not disturb the little worker as she worked her magic as she went round and round. This shot was taken as daylight was falling. This photo also gives me memories of the trip to the park and the fun I had with others as we snapped away. I have many hobbies to occupy my mind, this is just one of them.

I hope the rest of you have hobbies that help you get away. Even if it is just your back yard.