Monday, October 29, 2012

October 29 - three days and counting...

Every time I think about writing a blog post and think about writing for Nano it occurs to me that I should be writing for my story.  That every word I write on Blogger is actually a word I should be using for my novel.

My brain is actually going to start screaming at me, "Hey!  You could be using this word for Nano!  What are you, Crazy!  Oh, right, that was last year!  This is the denial year - yea, you're on that river in Egypt girl and you're not writing either!"

Yep.  That's my brain.  Nice, right?  Welcome to my world.

See you in a few days...maybe...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Me and Tons of Friends...

I found out yesterday that tons of friends are doing Nano this year too!  It's so great to know that I won't be suffering alone!  I shouldn't say that.  I shouldn't say suffering, because writing is really fun.  The story flows, you never know what the characters will do next.  It's really amazing when all of a sudden they are off and running in a completely different direction from the one you originally thought.

But to get back to all my friends - yesterday on Facebook, I posted Nanowrimo - 1667 words a day, 50,000 words in a month, and just how many more days before November and all these people came out of Facebook-land to say they are "in" too!  Awesome!  I'm so excited!

So here's to everyone doing Nano - you can do it!  And we'll all be in this together!  Thanks for being in there with me!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Gear up for Nanowrimo

It's time to gear up for Nanowrimo and in preparation I've been looking again at my manuscript for Guardian (re-writing the first paragraph - bouncing around and adding things here and there). Sarah asked if I was going to continue to work on that for Nano, but then I got to thinking about doing something different. I'd been thinking about our dog Tillie.

Tillie is an avid sleeper, hiker, dreamer, and of course eater! She's had many adventures and loves to tell you all about them, especially when we get in the car and are headed off for a new one. All of this begins to take shape as a great story in my head and so...I start this txt conversation with Sarah about titles: Tillie Takes a Trip, Tillie Goes for a Hike, Tillie Meets a Skunk, Tillie Takes a Plunge. She and I are popping them off to one another like crazy!  Tillie Learns to Yodel, Tillie Catches Flies, Tillie Meets New Friends, Tillie Gets a Puppy.

So as we are txt-ing, it finally comes up that I'm talking about Nanowrimo and of course, you could write the whole thing with just titles - ugh!  That's cheating!  But imagine a series of children's books about Tillie and her adventures!  What fun!  So, maybe I'll do that - or maybe I'll go back to Guardian and keep working - it too is an awesome story and is still just getting started and I'd love to spend more time just writing!

This whole blog about Just Keep Writing - well that works if you make for it and somehow right now, I just haven't - except it's starting to creep back in like a light under the door, gradually getting brighter, slowing beginning to fill the room with a hint of light so just maybe, perhaps, I can see my hands.