Insanity of NaNoWriMo

30 Days to write a 50,o00 word novel! That's the challenge put forth to budding and well versed writers all over the world for the month of November by the creators of NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. From midnight November 1st to midnight November 30th, all wanna-be, caffeine-charged writers toss aside day-to-day cares, worries, and regular activities to pound away on their keyboards, creating fantastical worlds, maniacal villians, gorgeous heroes, and clever heroines, and a plot that will hopefully stretch out beyond those precious 50k words. Even if you have to toss in a few zombies, ravishing floods, or whatever needed to flounce out a few extras here and there.

Who cares?

It's NaNo!

The roughest 1st draft created just to make you get from Point A to Point B to Point C to the mystical and beautiful THE END of your novel. That's what every novelist wants to see when they reach the frantic end of NaNoWriMo on or before November 30th. They can upload their...ahem...masterpiece to the website for verification.... and go from green bar to PURPLE WINNER bar and collect your goodies.

I got mine!!! One of them is the button you see at the beginning of this post. While my NaNo this year isn't a full Novel, per say, I did accomplish what I wanted. The third novella of my McDrakken series. It does need some editing before sending it off.

Did you make your goal? Did you get your purple bar? Let me know what you think of NaNoWriMo?

NaNo Time & New Contract

So much to say.. so far behind.

It is day 10 of NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org). For those who haven't heard of this wonderful site, you sign up (for free) to write a 50,000 word novel from midnight Nov 1st to Midnight Nov 30th. One complete novel. This doesn't mean writing one word 50,000 times. Uhuh.. You need to figure out characters, plot, action, dialogue and all that is around it within this steadfast deadline that looms ahead of you.

Me.. I'm 15,925 words in my new YA fantasy novel. I wasn't planning on writing a YA. I wanted to work on a new paranormal romance, but it didn't happen that way. I wasn't sure what to write up until Nov 1st hit me. Then a few days before, these young characters came forward and started talking to me.

First, a young man captured and held during the time of the Holocaust started telling me his story. Then came another young lady who bound herself in special ribbons to hold back her magic. Slowly, seven teens in all, from various paranormal races and historical times, came forward to combine into one team. Leading them is a powerful sorcerer called Alistair.

Their powers are only beginning to be understood. Two characters have yet to appear in the story. The evil they are facing is still a very BIG unknown. Not sure what they will face, if they even face it in this beginning story... Though, it's something I could see being publish when it's cleaned up and better organized. I can see these teens coming together, each one coming forward in a story their own, but adding to the team, not taking over.

We'll see as NaNo continues on and the words keep adding up to the final count. That's the beauty of NaNo, you never know what it'll throw at you and your pesky muse.

As for the new contract... Well.. I'm still in complete and utter awe of this. My novella, Dragon's Grace, was accepted by Lyrical Press, Inc. I found this wonderful email in my inbox when I woke up on Nov 1st, all ready to begin NaNo. Instead this email made me stop, cry in glee when I read those wonderful words, and dance around my apartment. I even made the titillating news announcement to my parents and grandparents when I saw them later for dinner.

Sigh.. A first true novella with my name on the cover. As more news comes along, I will pass it on.

Until then, happy dreams. Happy writing.

NaNo Time & New Contract

So much to say.. so far behind.

It is day 10 of NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org). For those who haven't heard of this wonderful site, you sign up (for free) to write a 50,000 word novel from midnight Nov 1st to Midnight Nov 30th. One complete novel. This doesn't mean writing one word 50,000 times. Uhuh.. You need to figure out characters, plot, action, dialogue and all that is around it within this steadfast deadline that looms ahead of you.

Me.. I'm 15,925 words in my new YA fantasy novel. I wasn't planning on writing a YA. I wanted to work on a new paranormal romance, but it didn't happen that way. I wasn't sure what to write up until Nov 1st hit me. Then a few days before, these young characters came forward and started talking to me.

First, a young man captured and held during the time of the Holocaust started telling me his story. Then came another young lady who bound herself in special ribbons to hold back her magic. Slowly, seven teens in all, from various paranormal races and historical times, came forward to combine into one team. Leading them is a powerful sorcerer called Alistair.

Their powers are only beginning to be understood. Two characters have yet to appear in the story. The evil they are facing is still a very BIG unknown. Not sure what they will face, if they even face it in this beginning story... Though, it's something I could see being publish when it's cleaned up and better organized. I can see these teens coming together, each one coming forward in a story their own, but adding to the team, not taking over.

We'll see as NaNo continues on and the words keep adding up to the final count. That's the beauty of NaNo, you never know what it'll throw at you and your pesky muse.

As for the new contract... Well.. I'm still in complete and utter awe of this. My novella, Dragon's Grace, was accepted by Lyrical Press, Inc. I found this wonderful email in my inbox when I woke up on Nov 1st, all ready to begin NaNo. Instead this email made me stop, cry in glee when I read those wonderful words, and dance around my apartment. I even made the titillating news announcement to my parents and grandparents when I saw them later for dinner.

Sigh.. A first true novella with my name on the cover. As more news comes along, I will pass it on.

Until then, happy dreams. Happy writing.