25,187 That’s Halfway through !

It’s not yet the 15th, that would be Thursday and today’s only Tuesday and I’m halfway through my word count.  Yeah!  I still haven’t gotten to the wedding yet, but I do know that my male main character who I had planned on being the one getting married (his name is Lord Henry) may or may not be getting married.  He’s met the woman of his dreams, the only problem is that she’s actually twins, and he doesn’t know yet that he’s fallen in love with two different women.  But two of what I thought were minor characters are making puppy love sick eyes at each other every chance they get, so maybe they’ll end up being the ones married.   This is the great thing about not planning everything out before hand, that I can just go where ever the characters take me.

And Stace- as for actually reading this “novel” at this point.  Never gonna happen!  I may print an excerpt, but part of the rules are that we have to turn off our internal editor, which is really hard for me.  (Ms Type A personality :0 ) I turned off the spell check function and the grammar check and even that’s driving me nuts, not to go back to the last sentence to correct mistakes.  And even if I make factual mistakes, I just have to go on.  The whole deal is just to write.  It’s actually very calming.   I really can’t believe I’ve gotten this far!  (Many thanks to my writing buddy who has a lot going on herself, but has been very encouraging to me!)

Ben has been deployed for 57 days.  That’s almost 2 months.  I can’t believe it’s been that long, on the other hand for deployments, that’s nothing.  I just keep praying that he’ll come home soon and safe to his family and friends!

15,000 Words

I’ve had a sinus infection since I came back from my trip to Florida, so I’m not back to being fully back to my normal self (whatever normal means.  After all these years, I’ve stopped trying to define what normal is. )  And I’ve been trying to keep up with the National Novel Writing Month contest NaNoWriMo.  As of today we’re supposed to have written 15,000 words, well I stopped my writing in mid sentence to do this post to let you all know that I’ve reached 15,000 words!  YEAH!  Go me!

I really didn’t think that I would even make it this far at the end of the month.  I also worried that I would have nothing to write about, but it seems every day that as I type the plot and the characters just seem to come out and flow.  I will tell you that I have no idea what’s going to happen next, and I’m not going to plan what I’m going to write tomorrow, because it is much better for me to just let things happen.  My characters are fleshing themselves out and they’re heading towards the weekend that the main part of the novel is going to be set (I think?!) which is over a weekend of a wedding.  (Many thanks to my cousin Chad and his new wife Meridith for the wedding idea.)  So it’s onward ho from here! 

Just Checkin’ In

It’s so weird having a blog.  I’m not used to having people actually read what I write.  I’ve been away where I haven’t been able to access my computer easily.  My cousin Chad got married last Saturday in Orlando, Florida and I flew down for the wedding.  It was awesome seeing my wonderful extended family.  I always forget how big my family can be when you add the in-laws and in my case when you add the out-laws too! (I’m referring to my cousin Kent who lovingly refers to himself as “The Pirate.”- I’ll post a picture in the coming days when I have more time to download all of my pictures:) )

The only free time I had was in the car on the way to and from the wedding rehearsal and on the plane for as long as my computer battery would allow.  And all of that time was dedicated to the NaNo novel.  I’m up to 8400 words right where I’m supposed to be for today, but it’s going to be a challenge to get the 10,000 words for tomorrow, because I’m so tired.

So I’m off to sleep.

Ben’s been deployed for 49 days.

The Wedding Party-a novel by me!

It’s 12:01 am on Thursday, November 1, 2007.  National Novel Writing Month begins now, so here’s to 50,000 words!  Good Luck to all 90,000 other participants who are also writing as of today!

50,000 words=1667 words per day

Ok, it’s official now.  I am signed to to try and write a 50,o0o word book during the month of November.  So for the next couple of weeks I have to get my life in some sense of order to allow me to write.  Now I have this nifty microphone hooked up to my computer, which I think I’m going to use (except in public- for good reasons!) to write my book.  It’ll be easier on my hands and then my ideas can flow freer.

Author!, Author?

An old friend of mine has been talking for a while about how she wrote a book of 50,000 words in a month.  For Fun!  At first I thought she was crazy, then she began posting more about it and now it’s time to sign up for this year’s write a book in a month contest.  You win if you write your novel with at least 50.000 words in 30 days.  There’s no mandatory editing and the only person who really reads it is you.  It’s sponsored by the National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo.org.

This sounds like a challenge that I might be up for.  I’m linking to Kblog so you can read more about this challenge from someone who’s actually completed the book.   I’m trying to think of all of the things that I could write about.  I want my book to be a total work of fiction and something that I’d enjoy writing about every day for a month.  That could include everything from faith to babysitting to Minnesota winters.  (Do we really need another Sven and Ole book?)  I still have a couple of weeks to think about what my plot lines will be.  As part of the contest, we are not allowed to begin writing until November 1st.  This will definitely try my patience!  And as K said, nobody has read the book that she wrote a couple of years ago, so I don’t know how my book (if I finish it) will turn out!

Suggestions are being accepted gratefully!!

As of today my brother B. has been deployed for 18 days.  His daughter Hailey turns 6 on Sunday.