Tag: November

Ready, Set, Write!

~ JodiLea
NaNoWriMo Shield blue and brown logo
2023

Today is November 1st. It marks the start of the National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo). I have 30 days to write a draft of my next novel. The idea is to just write and write and spew out your story. Any research or editing can be done later.

Divided up evenly over 30 days, to get a novel of 50,000 words, you must write 1700 words per day. Brutal.

I have heard of authors who can dream about their novels and wake up to write chapter after chapter with ease. I would love to be one of those authors. Maybe tonight? It could happen – I will keep you posted.

If you don’t see posts from me very much this month, now you know why. The same goes for emails and phone calls. So, please don’t feel ignored or forgotten.

It’s just November.

TTFN



Warm Up Your Brain – It’s Almost November

~ JodiLea

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I must have missed a bunch.  November is looming up on the calendar, again, and you know what that means…  NaNoWriMo!

November is National Novel Writing Month. I am determined to finish my draft of “Through the Door”, last year’s novel, but so many things have distracted me this year.

Since I already have over 50,000 words written, (57,980 to be exact), I cannot enter it as my 2014 novel. I can, however subtract the 57,980 words from the total words this November as I bumble along trying to finish by Dec. 1st. I will have tons of editing to do, as well as more research, but to complete the story will be HUGE. My first complete novel after all these years!!

Sometimes, I lose focus, because I want to end this particular story and move on to my next idea.  I tell myself that’s what it is, but I think I’m lying. The truth is so embarrassing to me, as “the writer” in the family!

I have no clue how the story will end.

It did have an end, but I trashed it. Why? Because it was WAY too corny. I admit that I like old-fashioned corny, but this was roll your eyes while gagging corny. Even I could not stand it. Yes, it was that bad.

So, for now, I’m introducing new major and minor characters, trying to expand my heroine’s options.  I tried to re-outline things, but that was a bad idea.

Strong characters have their own way of determining a story’s outcome. Which is good, because mine are going to have to finish this story on their own.

Good luck and Happy writing to all my fellow NaNoWriMo writers!

♥  Jodi

 

It’s a Short Trip…

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Whenever I say “That’s driving me crazy!”, hubby replies with “That’s a short trip.”

He is correct, along with being a smart ass.

Because I have nothing else to do (blatant lie) I signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – even when you retire you have to deal with acronyms. I want to give my lazy muse a good workout, get in the habit of working on fiction everyday.

No, this blog is not fiction. OK… The “This Could Be News” posts are as fictional as they get though.

When I signed up for the event, they gave me a free  website  for getting sponsors and displaying my progress. Come by if you feel like it. If you have an extra buck, think about supporting us striving writers. Or is that starving writers?

No purchase required to win.