Writing and such

This time last year I had my novel completely outlined, eager to start my epic tale of revenge. This year, well, I'm trying! I'm taking a little different approach listing things that I like and attempting to make a story out of it. So expect a story involving Bigfoot and time travel. Actually I think I'm going to do a light-hearted story that could read like an 80s kids movie (yknow, back when they could swear and shoot guns).

Now I was going to put a picture of the garden now, but I can't seem to find it!
It is overrun with greens! The cosmos are past their prime but managed two tiny pink buds. I can see the carrot top greens sticking out! Not sure if an actual carrot will appear though. But in terms of weeds, there are plenty of red and blue mini flowers accenting the chaos.
My indoor basil is doing OK though! I put in a little Halloween accent to help them stand up strong.



I am going home in a few days. The tentative plan is to come back to Japan after the New Years some time. It's sad to leave all my new friends!

It's that time again

It's the end of September (and Happy Birthday to ME!). Which means I have one whole month to outline and prepare for the impending madness of NANOWRIMOOOOOOOOOO (read it in an echo-y voice).



www.nanowrimo.org

NaNoWriMo, if you forget, means "National Novel Writing Month" despite it being an international sensation. The goal is to write at least 50,000 words in the month of November- a noble feat!
Last year, I successfully accomplished this with my novel called Shadow of the Vultures.

As for this year, well, I don't know! Do I want to try a comedy? Something light and fun? Or do I need that intense driving force of a strong storyline to keep me going? I have a month to figure it out!

50000 word winner

Sorry I haven't posted much this month, I have a ton to post about too!
I've just been too busy trying and succeeding for my first NaNoWroMo win!



I hit 50,000 words today, a day before the deadline. The story itself isn't even complete. I've been working on it feverishly today, everything from here on out is quite exciting.

NaNoWriMo begins

So far this year I am keeping up with the daily recommended word counts. I will try and keep it updated daily at night (fingers crossed) in the section to the left! I have been going to local meet-ups and it really is helping me! Plus I've met more goofy people which is a plus =)
Please refer to my previous NaNoWriMo post if you have no idea what I'm talking about!

Nanowrimo

It's that time of year again to sign up for NaNoWriMo! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, which doesn't makes sense since people all over the world do it. But NaNoWriMo is snazzier than IntNoWriMo.

Starting November 1st at midnight through the whole month you are given a goal to write your own novelette with at least 50,000 words.

I have participated since 2003 (sans last year) and have never reached the goal for various reasons (didn't save correctly, too busy, I hated my characters...). I feel good about this year though and I am happy about my plot so far. 4th time's a charm right?

So sign up and let's become writing buddies! I plan to keep a current word count off to the side.

Because of so many people going to the site, you may get errors until they work it out. Just keep trying!