Wow, I didn't know my blog wasn't working...

I have been posting and just realized that I have been NOT posting on my blog.  Apparently, something was going wrong, and my posts were being 'saved' but not posted.

So, it looks like I have been gone for a while...but I am here and nearly ready to WIN again.  Yes, in less than a month, actually only 19 days - the world will be in turmoil again.  I will be writing, trying to 'win' again, as I write the novel of the century for the http://www.nanowrimo.com/ November 2011's contest.  I won last year, writing a over 50,000 word novel in 30 days - the whole contest is that.  Write a novel in 30 days.  Yep, I did it last year, thus my blog.

I am starting to get worried about this year's contest - I won the camp contest in July, but did not finish in August - just too much going on and kept going on vacation...so I didn't get it done.  But, I will do it this November - I have to.  I am hosting a 'write in' on November 4th - at the Oakland University's Kresege Library.  I have to hold my head up, write my guts out and get it done.

I just have to figure out what to write about... what my mind says and how I think it will go, is not working for me yet.  I think I will do the 'end of the world' novel that I used to tell my boys about.  S says it would be great - and St thinks so too.  I haven't told V or K about it, and my husband, my friend, my soul mate just smiles and nods his head.  He thinks I am nuts to write books any way.  Although, when I am rich and famous - I will still love him.  Maybe even share the wealth with him.  Maybe.

DM Wiseman, already published author, and getting ready to go after the 'winner's circle' once again....

What a week end, starting out the week from H...

I haven't written all weekend, but I did clean out the front closet!  I didn't get to edit the last book, but I did get 25 animals made for the book I'm making for my niece... looks like all I am doing is what I don't want to particularly want to do.

Like now, I am at break, at work, eating at my computer.  I forgot my thumb drive, so can't edit and too lazy to write and then send myself, to copy and paste together.  I am just not into this writing thing this week.

By the weekend, I will be writing my guts out - my husband, my friend, my soul mate is going to either Tampa or Denver or somewhere on Thursday and not coming back until late Saturday night.  I will be alone in the house with the two monsters all day Friday and Saturday (until I make the 90 minute trip to the airport and pick him up at 2200 or for the regular people - 9:30pm).  So I intend to get a lot of words counted and get that last book done. 

THEN I just have to get the July and August Camp novels published...let's just say, before my November NaNoWriMo time is up.  I want NOTHING to keep me from winning again....

So, off I go to hang blood.  Yeah, it's always something keeping me from my real passion - writing...

D M Wiseman, will be farther ahead this weekend, already published slightly behind, author

I'm officially a loser...

Even though this camp - August version of www.CampNaNoWriMo.org had 31 days instead of 30 days, but I couldn't do it.  I didn't finish the book.  I didn't make the 50,000 words.  Instead, I was selfish, I slept when I should have been writing.

So, I didn't 'win' this month, but I still feel ok.  I entered a contest that my mom told me about - it's a short story contest for a leading woman's magazine.  Good Housekeeping has contests every so often and this one is about what our lives are like now, as women. 

Well, mine is stressfull compared to my mom's life - she was (when I was growing up) a housewife.  She didn't have a job, didn't have a car, made every thing homemade, and loved us.

I've worked full time, have a car, put myself thru college as I was still trying to keep the house and two kids alive and well as being a good wife etc.  That is what my story is about.  The nine lives that make up the 'me'.  It is only just under 3500 words, thus the short story.

So, a loser, but a contenter in this contest... oh, well.  I just need to wait until February to find out if I even placed!  Well, I will finish my camp novel by then.  I promise!

D M Wiseman, not as bad a loser as I really feel, already published, maybe a winner, author

Wow am I behind...

I have been on vacation for the past 10 days and have not written a word.  I am now so behind, that there is no way to catch up, because I have to go back to work tomorrow night...
If I write 20,000 words by the time I go to sleep tonight, maybe then do another 5000 tomorrow, I could pound out the rest after I sleep on Tuesday and Wednesday.  It doesn't look good for this camper this month.

I did write the 3000 short story that I have sent off to the Good Housekeeping Magazine contest - but I won't know about whether or not I even place in the contest, until after the new year.  I could win $3000 and have my story in the magazine, or place - meaning no money, but in print.  It would be really cool to even place.  I can dream - boy can I dream big.

So, I am going to be up until at least 2am so I will get as much written as I can tonight...

D M Wiseman, I will not give up yet, already published author...

Writing writing writing away...

I am doing it, I am writing away, getting the numbers up there.  And it is very very good.  Of course I am a bit prejudiced in this - whether or not it is good.  I really like this story... so far.

I am not going to be at the 3/4 mark this weekend, but being off all next week, I will finish.  My camp days though, are over.  I cannot do the writing while working on a deadline.  I take too long to fall asleep, thinking about not writing.  I wake up with writing on my mind.  I also think it through, think about it on the way home. 

I find that I really need to get the plot down when I get off work, but by the time I get home, I am too tired.  I lay down, then can't sleep.  It is not a fun thing, working on no sleep, or driving home that tired.  So, today I pulled another P day (that's vacation talk) and will write tonight, tomorrow in the morning after I take my husband, my friend, my soul mate to the airport. 

I leave on Friday - yeah, we are traveling to the same place one day apart.  Don't ask, just know this won't happen again...but it gives me an extra day to get my haircut, see my sister B and then scrap with my famous sister in law Holly (the one that is in a movie as an extra because she was short enough to sit in front of the really famous actors that I can't remember their names right now!) until after dinner.

Oh, and yesterday we all found out that Holly's daughter M is having TWINS!  Identical boys due in early January, but will come sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas... she is naming them Riley and Elijah (going to call that one Eli) and we are so, so excited...

I will stop now and go on writing my novel...as soon as I let the monster puppies out AGAIN for the eighth time...it is nice out, I am awake and Boomer likes to sleep in the sun.  For only a little bit, then he needs to come in and breath loudly.  Gotta love them dogs!

D M Wiseman, unable to sleep, but still writing away...

Oh, man am I behind...

I did not get any writing done today at all because I slept in and then went grocery shopping.  How sad is that for an excuse?  But, its the God's honest truth.  I didn't get up until noon (I had the worst headache from the change in the weather), then straightened up the den before I could go shopping (my husband, etc was going to do something to the closet - thus the straightening first).  I am such a slug, but since my husband, etc will not be coming home for dinner, I will write through dinner.

So, I am planning on doing three days worth of writing on Monday.  I promise, kind of - sort of, I hope to any way...

D M Wiseman, feeling better now, already published author

Ok, I'm only alittle behind now...

It's the 13th, and I am only alittle behind now.  It doesn't seem so bad, after a few days, to pound out the last chapter, and it was actually good enough to save...

I am writing again today, will write tomorrow too.  Then, some on Monday night when I get up, but after that, until the weekend - if I take the computer to Miami that is.  I still don't know if I am or not.  I need to, because if I don't, I will be over a week behind, and that it going to be too much to make up, I fear.  No, I will do it, I've done it before, and I will do it again.

Ok, I'm only writing a little bit here, so off I go to write on my novel for the Auguast session of camp.  I will, I will, I will write until I drop tonight.

D M Wiseman, writing away, already published author....

I am not so good this weekend...

I have hardly written anything this weekend.  Seriously, I am not wanting to right now, in fact, I am trying to watch the TV - but the storm is out of control, and the satellite keeps cutting out the shows.

I could write, but I am procrastinating big time.   I will have to write later, while watching 'Numbers' and then re-runs of 'Criminal Mind' - when my husband (etc - see don't even feel like writing the whole word for my husband).  I am sure I will write later...

D M Wiseman, the procrastinating, already published author...

Wrote an hour and it felt good...

I wrote for an hour today, waiting for dinner to be ready, and boy, it did feel good.  I am way behind with this months camp novel, but will catch up this weekend, you can be sure.  I will have to, as I work four nights again next week, then have a busy weekend and won't get much done...

This weekend, I will do my best to write as much as I can, because I will not be able to on Sunday - I am meeting my new grand puppy!  Yes, Leo has a brother - he is a rescue as well, a black brindle mix between a Great Dane and a German Shepard.  His name was Milo, but Leo wants it to be Archie - so that's what his name is.  Hopefully, he is full grown, as he is HUGE already.  Not as big as Gracie - but big enough.  Can't wait to meet him and see how he interacts with my two monsters...

I will attempt to write late into the night Saturday and after S and V take the puppies home - but Monday, work again.  I tell you, I have to give up that job if I want to work and still get some sleep! Ha.  But, someone has to pay for my computer, the electricity, and my scrapbook habit...

D M Wiseman, new grandma to Archie, published author....

Meant to, but didn't quite have it in me...

I really meant to add at least another 1000 or so words toward my goal of keeping up in camp this month, but alas - I just needed that extra hour of sleep today.  I slept instead of wrote!  Can you believe it?  I really need to quit my job so that I can write full time, and still sleep.  I can't seem to do both, during the work week.  I can't write and work, without sleep.

Sleep.  Such a simple thing, really.  But to a midnight worker, it is the most important thing in our lives.  We are either talking about how much we slept - how little we slept - or how much we are going to sleep.  It really makes me crazy, but it's true.  I come to work, and that's what we talk about.  "What did you do over the weekend?" always ends up with how much we slept!

Any way, I am going to sleep today, write at least an hour (my husband, my soul mate, my friend is going to do the dinner planning, making and cleaning up (he is off until Tuesday to burn some vacation time) so I can sleep and write.  What a nice guy!  I am now officially behind, and if I don't get some writing done during this week, I will have to spend most of the weekend writing - and he doesn't want that!  Ha.

So, off to finish my break, then drive home - hit the sheets without having to deal with puppies (they will be thrilled to spend the time with the dad) and I'll dream I'm writing, so when I get up - it will be fresh...

D M Wiseman, behind again, but do my best under pressure, published author

On my way, and its only August 3rd...

So, I have already written a good couple of chapters for the next novel that I am writing for www.CampNaNoWriMo.org 's August contest and its only the 3rd!  I am on my way and going to be a 3rd time winner yet...

Leo has gone home, my two monster dogs were groomed today and have been asleep since.  They are tired from 3 weeks of non-stop puppy play as well as the stress of getting their toe nails cut (actually drummel'd if that's a word!) and have passed out downstairs.  Dinner be damned, they are sleeping and the house is quiet.  I miss the puppy already...

So, I will write, and hit my targets as much as possible while attempting to work, eat, SLEEP and still see my husband, my sour mate, my friend.  I don't want to leave time for him out!  And, still find time to swim, go to the boat as well as sleep - did I say that already?  I am tired...

D M Wiseman, camper extraordinaire, published author

Such a let down, now that its done but on to another one!

Just signed up for the August Camp!  Yeah going again!  I think I will change cabins, maybe try the archery and woods group!  Ha.

So, now I am attempting to finish the 3,500 word short story contest for the magazine Good House Keeping - I am going to tell the story of my nine lives - I am a Cat!  You know the schizophrenic way we as women - moms, daughters, friends, etc - which one is the real me?

So, after I get that sent off, I will be doing my camp story for August - don't know what yet, so really got to get going!  I think I will use the idea that I already have in my mind, maybe an easy one this time - I am after all at camp!

So, I am announcing another book on my facebook page to let everyone know I wrote another book that no one will read...  OK I am just being whiny - its the let down after the adrenaline of writing... it will come back!  I know it will.  Camp was just what I needed to get back on the roll again...

D M Wiseman, let down, but going at it again, published author...

Done! Done! Done! And WON!

I crossed the 50,000 word mark and finished my sixth novel!  Yeah, I'm a winner - again.  Maybe I will sell more books this time around... maybe I'll win the lotto!  Maybe I will finish that other book I've been writing for weeks and weeks now...

Maybe after I finish the 3,500 word contest for the magazine Good Housekeeping.  I kind of promised my mom that I would enter the contest, and I could win the $3000 as well as get my short story published in the magazine - you know, actual print... that would be cool.  Then I'd be a real printed author, a print published author.  Could that make me validated?  No more than the eBooks do. 

I am already a published author.  I am, I am just not that successful, haven't sold many books, but I've made almost $100 so far, so I am not that bad - my books could all be free, then I would make nothing.  So I am not that bad.  Any way, enough of that!

I finished - I crossed the line and have now become a www.CampNaNoWriMo.org contest winner!!!  Yeah for me!

D M Wiseman,   already published author does it again...a winner...

And so I get a huge apology...and I win a Vagabond too!

So after I slept one hour on Thursday, I was awakened by the Corporate Manager of that hotel that sent me the biggest boo boo email to apologize and had the gall to tell me that I misunderstood their email.  That 'don't bother with this lead' didn't mean that they were blowing me off - yeah right!  So anyway, he really tried to kiss butt, poorly I might add.

Then an hour later, I got another phone call (and I had just fallen asleep again) to learn that I had won something very cool - a Vagabond - it is an electric embosser by Tim Holtz and costs about $250 - I won by completing the scrap hop that my famous sister in law Holly and I went to last weekend.  And I won!  So, after driving to pick it up, and not sleeping all afternoon because I played with my new toy! I made all kinds of really neat stuff - now I know what kind of cards I am making for Christmas!  And I will make all of the tags as well for the presents!  I am going to have a blast this year, now that I know what I am doing, of course I am not the best at it yet...

In the mean time, I have written almost all of the 10,000 words (meaning over 5,000 words!) and I will be done before the deadline of 11:59:59 on July 30th, 2011 !!  And will have won again - this time the www.CampNaNoWriMo.org 's contest and another book written!  This one I am having a hard time figuring out the title, don't want to put the 'plan' word in the title, don't want to make it an odd title, but am leaning towards 'For Tyler'  or 'A Home for Tyler'  or maybe 'The New Jenna'.  I am having a hard time with it, and the cover I can't see yet (in my head) so I can't give the idea to Rita my most perfect cover artist yet.  I need to get these two little issues finished before I can publish.  I can finish the words though before that, so on I go... because I need to make a card to show the afore mentioned Holly next Saturday...

D M Wiseman, almost done and almost won again, published author...

Rudeness has touched my life!

I have to vent, then I will go back to writing the next great American Novel...

I put an email inquiry to a hotel to possibly host a Scrapbooking Weekend there and the reply was the rude-est and at the same time interesting - a MANAGER of banquets sent me a reply by accident.  It was to the manager that was to answer me about my inquiry.  In the PS to the guy named Paul, this Susan told him NOT TO BOTHER WITH THIS LEAD.  Yep, told him to blow me off.  I was not happy and wrote back that she should be carefull when sending emails that you do not reply to ALL.

I also told her not expect me to stay at her hotels again.  And let me tell you that I stay at the Best Western brand of hotels pretty often.  So if any one wants a recommendation DO NOT STAY at the BEST WESTERN STERLING INN in Sterling Heights Michigan as my business is not worth thier trouble.  So, now I am done and will return to the previously scheduled blog on my writing...

I intend to write at least 5000 words today before I sleep as I have obviously had too much caffeine tonight and will not be able to sleep until dinner.  WOW and I will make my deadline...yeah!
D M Wiseman, done bitching for the day and already on my way, published author...

So close and yet not done yet!

I am right on target for the amount of 'words' that I need to have, to finish the www.CampNaNoWriMo.org  contest for this month.  I still have ten thousand or so to write, and I am at work, still have to work tomorrow, and won't get to write until at the earliest - Thursday AFTER I sleep sometime. 

I will finish.  I will 'win'.  I sound like the little engine that could.  I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
But the difference is I WILL.  I have a good track record, and I have the drive... I just need to sleep first.

Then I could do it all over again for August!  If I want to, that is.  My mom sent me a copy of a few pages of the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine that she reads.  There is a contest to write a short story (SHORT! ha - its only up to 3500 words!  I can do that in a day!) and I could win $3000 and/or have it published in that same magazine!  I am planning to enter that as well.  At this rate, I will NEVER sleep until maybe September.

So, off I go to sleep, then work again, to S and V's house to let the delivery guys in with their new bedroom furniture, home again to sleep and play with the two monster puppies that are mine, as well as my grand puppy Leo.  Wrapping it up, I will write by the end of the week and win!

D M Wiseman,  planning on winning, writing, but first sleeping, published author

Well on my way, but a few miles to go...

This past two days, my famous sister in law Holly and I were on a Scrap Hop which is a cool way to learn new 'crop' techniques, visit new stores, and make a couple of handfuls of cards - you go to seven different scrapbook stores, make two cards at each, and learn different ways to make cool cards.  It was done over two days, because real life gets in the way.

As does scrapping with my famous sister in law Holly - I didn't get any writing done for two days, because after spending two days with Holly, I couldn't sit in front of the computer to get my days numbers in - my husband, my friend, my soul mate was needing 'quality time' as well as 'quantity time' and so no writing done. 

NOW I am well into the next chapter, feeling good - my husband etc is going to be doing something to the pool filter after he goes to town to the pool store, so I can write for a good five hours (with a few minutes out to make lunch) until we go to the movies!  So yeah - I may be back on track to writing the a fore mentioned millions of words that I needed to write this weekend to be caught up to win the www.CampNaNoWriMo.com 's contest...  And tomorrow my husband etc is not working tomorrow either, so I really need to get going...

I only work Monday Tuesday and Wednesday this week, so Thursday I can write - but I'll be at S and V's house while I wait for their new bedroom set - they are still in Arizona.  We are puppy sitting for Leo until August 2nd, so I will need a few hours of quiet by Thursday! 

I am on my way, watching all the puppies taking a nap, watching rerun of a bad attempt at copying the Indiana Jones movies called 'The Librain' series - with Noah Wylie the guy from ER.  I actually like the movies, they are just fun.

D M Wiseman, not going to procrastinate today, published author...

I have four days off from work and on to write...

I just got up and am down in my 'spot' to write, but can't get the grand puppy to stop barking!  Leo is a little louder than my two monsters, and I have a headache.  It's hot out, so they can't go outside to play, so Gracie and Leo are playing in the family room.  Right at my feet, while Boomer is chewing a bone that Leo wants, thus the barking.  He won't take the bone from Boomer ( I think he is a little afraid of him) and Boomer is just staring at them - he knows it is driving Leo crazy by NOT giving him the bone!

So, I am now trying to write, keep Leo from barking, Gracie has lost her necklace and its still hot outside.  I still have my headache too.  I don't like to whine...but really, just how much caffeine can one person consume, how many Tylenol, naprosyn, and just plain Motrin in one 24 hour period?  Actually I do know, because I am a nurse in my real life, I just play an author in the cyber world...

So, my goal by the time I go to the hospital for my B shift on Monday is to write 10,000 words!  I am on my way, I already wrote seven (7).  Whoop!  I think that's how you spell that word that you use when you put your fist in the air!  Well, I need to 'win' the www.CampNaNoWriMo.org contest for July and since I was in the newspaper yesterday, I really have to win...

D M Wiseman, on my way, not really counting, already published author...

I am in the Newspaper !

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago and today - the article was published!  I'm nearly famous - or atleast, I could be.  Maybe this is my 15 minutes of fame before the paper is used to wrap garbage, or line the bird cage, or put into the bin to burn come the fall and winter in fireplaces.  Ok, I digress...

The article tells about the http://www.campnanowrimo.org/ contest that I am in now - half way done... and the contest in November.  I am excited about the whole thing, and hoping that maybe, just maybe, I get some more books published.  I am so optomistic - the ultimate pollyanna...

Any way, I am so excited that I might sell more books, might be recognized, might, just might get my author-ship off the ground... in the least, maybe just maybe...

Ok, putting the pollyanna parts aside, the article was pretty good.  If anyone wants to read it, here is the link:
http://www.romeoobserver.com/Story.asp?page=community&storyid=19938
It's in the Romeo Observer and written by a Chris Gray, a reporter that writes great articles about the area I live in.  He writes about the theatre in town (my friend Kendra told me he was the guy to contact) and I always read his articles...

D M Wiseman, maybe famous, already published author, maybe a top seller...

Well on my way,.,..

I am half way to finishing the novel while I am at 'CampNaNoWriMo' and feel this book is as good or maybe better than the others (well not as good as 'The Claddagh Promise' because I really like that one) - yeah!  So, maybe I will be able to enter the Good Housekeeping Magazine's Short Story Contest.

My mom sends me articles that she reads, she thinks I will be interested in, or she thinks I need to know about.  She cuts them out, copies them and then underlines, highlights, and puts things in quotes that she really needs me to pay attention to... yes, she does this when she sends cards too.  Any way, she sent me an article from the Good Houskeeping Magazine about a short story contest that the winner gets to have the story published and wins $3000.  Due September 1, 2011 and only 3500 words or less about something that has to do with women...  hummm. 

Can I do this?  Yes, I write 50,000+ words in less than a month, but I write fiction stories, can I write something about what a woman means to me? Or what has made a difference in my life, having to do with women?  I don't know.  I think I could, but after this month's 'Camp' - I was going to go again in August...when will I have time to write a short story?  I work midnights as it is, and we are going to be in Miami for a week... well, I can try it, and if I don't - I don't.  Dare I even think about winning?  Well, I am already a published author, so to be published again, in a magazine (not just the cyber world...) would be great to.  $3000 doesn't hurt either...

D M Wiseman, already thinking past the end of this story, to the next and a short story to boot - published author...

Home again, home again...

Yep, home now, and sitting with the computer on my lap, watching a re-run of "Numbers" I actually had never seen  before, dogs plural (three by the way, yes grand puppy Leo over for a couple of weeks while S and V go to Arizona to meet her grand mother) at my feet, and thoughts of the camp running thought my head, racing to the end - contest end of 50,000 words or better.  I am writing again!  I will stay up late, write until the mind is not able to continue, then sleep in for tomorrow.

So, I will get a lot of words done today, and into tomorrow. so that's why I am pushing through this part of my novel, because it is rally the good parts, building the basis for the whole story,.  Yeah, I have it now...

D M Wiseman, completely done with procrastination, and writing again, still at camp...

Kentucky here I am!

I am in Kentucky with my couisin visiting K and seeing the sites.  As I sit here waiting for dinner time to come, I checked my mail - and found another blog site, as well as a station JUST FOR SCRAPBOOKING - yep!  My Craft Channel is all about crafts.   I signed up to follow a few blogs, in my spare time, of course, and maybe I'll win something.  In the mean time, I feel like I am ADHD - oh, I want to make this, oh, I want to make that...I am going around in circles looking at crafty things to make, when I NEED TO FINISH MY NOVEL !!! this month or I will get kicked out of camp. 

Actually that won't happen and it's just my deadline, but I need to keep writing to 'win' this July's http://www.campnanowrimo.com/ 's contest.  I really need to finish, but you should see the really cool cards they have for ... and oh, did you see the frame that my mom would love for... oh, baby shower invitations, or I need to get my head to stop spinning...

Write, Deb write... I feel like that is my mantra, like Forrest Gump, Run....

D M Wiseman, procrastinating published author, and current camper...

Oh Wow! I am on my way...

It's the 11th day of the www.CampNaNoWriMo.org contest to write a book in the month of July - and a second one in August...

I have 15,000 words so far and I'm doing pretty well.  I have the scene set, now just need to add a bad guy, some drama and then get the two singles together...I can do it! I know it seems trivial, that I am so into writing this one.  I just fell into this plot, and its going to be good, done, and published (OK all of those things are a little premature).

My husband, my friend, my soul mate is being great about it.  He smiles and shakes his head when I say I have to hit the target number for the day, it changes as I write, my target number.  He doesn't get it.  Other 'Campers' understand!  And I don't mean to bring up the article that is going to be in the paper in a few days, but I can't wait to see specifically three things.

What the article actually says...       Did he plug my books?        and the all important question...
What page did I make!

I'm a hopeful person and I am counting on some of the publicity to increase my book sales!  I want and need the validation!  As well as plug my books, it gets interest in the Camp, writing, and I might sell some more books...

I need to write now, I need a three day head start on my writing for Camp...

DM Wiseman, published author and more!

Really getting into this Campnanowrimo writing and not doing too bad...

Started writing the other night, and really got a good bit down - meaning it really is good or so my inflated ego thinks.  I wonder if any author thinks they write something bad or do they all love what they write?  I not only just want me to think my stuff is good.  I want someone else to think it is too, not just family either.  They love me and would lie to me about this.  I know it, and love them for it.  I just want ooutside positive acknowledgement - confirmation from a stranger.

Any way, I am over 10,000 words and need to get going.  Needed a boast and shove - so went to my favorite and only spa I go to but Utica's ACT II Salon and Spa.  So worth it.  So worthy of it.  Or so I think...  Ha.  Laughing at myself is better than not getting the joke.  So, I need to write about 13,000 words this weekend, but I work two of them, so I am going to aim for by Tuesday night have an even 16,000 words to be caught up for next weekend where I will be in Kentucky seeing my lovely K.  My cousin Nora and I are making the trip.  And going to 'pick' some flea markets on the way.

Once we are in Louisville - we are going to visit the Stoneware Factory and where ever else K recommends.  I think we need to relax, both Nora and I - and then pile in my words the next week...I have a plan, the goal kind of plan to get to the magic number of 50,000 BEFORE the end of the month.  Lofty ideals and goals get me through the times.  Aim high, jump higher.  Wow, I am a good author - that should be a NIKE commercial slogan.  Ha.

D M Wiseman, on my way and focused, until we go out to dinner, published author

Wow am I excited...

I am very excited today.  I was interviewed by our village newspaper - the Romeo Observer - because of the contest that I was in last November - you know NaNoWriMo's contest at http://www.nanowrimo.com/.  The contest for writers that if you write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days - you win... so National Novel Writing Month - and I won last November...I am repeating myself and I digress...

Last month, I read an article about an author in our town and wondered how the paper knew about her and her book.  So, being the curious and bold person that I am - I contacted the reporter Chris, and asked.  He contacted me today and interviewed me regarding the contest, how I won, was published and went on to write 4 more books.  NOW I am in the CampNaNoWriMo (July's version of the November contest) and he is going to write an article about the contest and ME.

So, I am excited - and wrote more today (it was an incentive, you see to make sure I do finish!) towards my 50,000 words.  I am on target, which I am glad for because working and writing is harder than I thought it would be.  So far, it is the 6th, and I am +8000 words into it, which is only about 1300 behind.  I can make that up this weekend, and hopefully get ahead for next week... it will be a stretch, but for the next three weeks, I am only working 3 nights not 4, so I hope to pound out the story and get it under control.  I must be a winner again!
So, dear readers! Ha!  I am on my way, foraging ahead (ok, now I am making myself sick) but have a renewed strength and want as well as the need to win! and to finish another book, so I can rest before November's contest starts...  Yeah, a plan.

D M Wiseman, on my way to be a winner once again, published author...

Hapy Fourth of July! and busy writing for the July NaNoWriMo contest...

It's the fourth of July - Independence Day and a mcuh needed day off work that added up with my three day weekend to be just what I needed.  I just coughed at home, on the boat, and then at S and V's new home.  I am so tired of being sick...

I have been sick the past few weeks, coughing, hacking, trying to breath - and trying to sleep but having not the best time of it - 4 weeks and counting now.  Bronchitits is not fun.  I can't sleep when I am coughing, and I can't stop coughing when I am awake either.

I have gone through over 100 lemon and honey cough drops and a very large bottle of no brand cough medicine dm - in the past week alone.  I am using an inhalor, a nebulizor - have already been on antibiotics as well as the horrid steroid med-dose pack (I get the extreme bitches from the steriods and really hate being on them) so I just have to let the virus 'take it's course'.  God I hate bonchitis - I said that already.

I digress in what I wanted to say in today's blog.  I am WRITING again!  Yeah.  I decided to do the July NaNoWriMo's summer version of the November contest.  They call it Camp NaNoWriMo and it just put a bug in me and I am writing again, to get my sixth book published.  I was stalled, and now I am re-charged.  I can do this now, just needed a boast...

The end date - the target date for the book to be completed will be before or on July 31, 2011.  It is the ultimate goal because I will get it done, that is the goal and it will not change this time (ok so I know I had already planned on the end of March, then May, but I have been working and sleep is very important to a midnight worker...).  So, the end of July it is and I will do it...really, I will...I'm at 14,940 words already!

DM Wiseman, published author, and renewed writer!!!!

I'm still coughing, but feel much better today...

I am still coughing, but I feel better today - enough to go to work tonight.  I have a lot to do and really need to do my work on the schedule.  I need to get it done tonight, so cough or not - here I come.

I have also broken my 'writer's block' and am finishing the book that has been plaguing me.  It is nearly done, and then the editing time will be short, as I re-read editing at the same time.  I think the book will get me going towards the goal of a dozen books written.

Today, I contacted the little paper in our area, to see if an article on the November contest (it is coming up fast!) for writers www.NaNoWriMo.com and get some publicity for the cause.  And maybe my books, so I can get some more books sold... maybe give a discount if they mention reading about it in the little paper...

I also want to do a Barcamp - but I am wondering where to have it.  The biggest issue is not where to hold it, but who will come...what if no one comes?  How embarrassing would that be?  I think if my family comes, that will help (there's a lot of them) but I really need to have WRITERS come.  Writers in this area that are going to be writing for the contest.  I know I am!

Barcamp - I want it to be a success, but have no idea how to do it...I have researched how to and will use the www.NaNoWriMo.com site to network the people in my area.  There has to be people like me, that are writers, in their off times...

D M Wiseman, trying to organize a Barcamp, published author

I'm on the boat and it didn't rain...

Believe it or not, it didn't rain and we are on the boat. There was a lot of rocking - and not from that! I needed to cough every time I laid down, so nebulizer treatments twice in the night didn't help my boat sickness any. I just need to coat my throat with something and then drug myself to sleep. The puppies thought it was all in great fun, getting up and down all night!

A reader called with a suggestion on cough medicine. I think I might just give it a try. Thanks, Lisa!

Today though, spending a quiet day missing both my father as well as my husband, my friend, my soul mate's father. Both wonderful men in their own way. Miss them both. Should write a book of stories about them...would be a good sell and better read!!!

Going to write tonight on he story I finally can finish. And watch out - I am going to organize a Barcamp in the fall for area novelists or budding novelists that will gear us up for the NaNoWriMo contest in November that started this whole author thing!!!

For those of you who don't know what a Barcamp is - it is a 'non-conference'. Or a un-structured meeting. Look it up (I did) It's really cool sounding. Wonder if any one would come in my area? We'll see if I can pull it off. In the mean time, I have to get book number three finished so I can enter the contest in November clean! Give me strength because last time I was confined to a sitting position and wasn't working. This time, it's another story!

D M Wiseman, ready to finish the sixth in order to write the seventh, and still coughing - published author

Feeling better this am and smell better too...

I got up this morning feeling better, could breathe much better, but still with a funky voice. I fEel better and smell way better too. Then the doge came to me all droopy and wet from playing. I won't even be mad that they woke me up at 620am. Way too early but got up to keep the calm - and get them outside to play.

I spent the next few minutes in peace -with a nice cup of hot tea. Ahh the joys of normalcy. Then the dogs came in. Chaos ensued. Oh well, they are happy and good, so I can tolerate the chaos. Just like having kids.

Oh, and we are going to have another Grand Puppy - S and V are going to adopt another puppy that a friend of my husband, my friend, my soul mate rescued. She looks a little like Leo - reddish and has almaost the same ears. The family sure is growing. They will get her the first part of August - she's in heat right now and I am NOT going through that again!!!

So, my day will be normal, calm, and close to the bathroom, my breathing machine, and all my mess. God this is pathetic. I am baseing my day on my bronchitis and my machine. Oh well, better to get better Athens venture out. I'll get some writing done at least!

D M Wiseman, breathing better but still not perfect, writing for awhile, published author...

I am wearing Au De wet dog and am generally sick...

I am sick with bronchitis with a sore throat, post nasal drip, sore chest and fever on and off.  I saw the doctor then had to take my baby Boomer to the vets because he is sick again.  Throwing up everything and generally feeling poorly (that's an old fashion word for feeling 'punk') and not eating or drinking.  He was so pitiful at 2am when I had to clean up puke on the blanket in our room.

Then all the puke before I could get him to the vets today.  He has just as much medicine to take as I do.  There doesn't seem to be anywhere he didn't puke.  I got him to the vets, a shot or two later and he feels better now.  Ate dinner, so far kept it down.  But that is not the best of the day...

Gracie, after playing so hard with our Grand Puppy Leo, was getting a drink out of our pool and fell in.  Not a big deal as Alpine Mastiff's can swim, but the pool has not been 'opened' yet and is filled with dirty yucky water and the cover with air things and frogs.  I was alone with the three dogs, she was the only one outside, and as I was trying the rescue thing. Leo and Boomer went through the screen door to assist me in the rescue.  Thus the Au De wet dog smell one me.  I dislike the smell, big time.

I will take my last meds, and tuck on down to sleep, hopefully for an all night rest - without puke and with me not coughing my head off...

D M Wiseman, sick, wet and coughing, published author

But I don't want to wait until November to write the new book...

I have a new idea for a book, and I don't want to wait until November and the contest - you know the contest that is put on every November by NaNoWriMo (www.NaNoWriMo.com), which stands for National Novel Writing Month - for budding novelists or seasoned writers - you write a novel (at least 50,000 words) in 30 days.  It takes over the entire month, your entire waking minute - and I have an idea that I could write in 2011's contest. 

But, I don't want to wait until November to write it, and I really should.  I need to finish the two I have started, but I'm at a wall, one of those 'writer's block' thing that happens.  I can think of a lot of things to write, but not the finish to the book that is almost done.  How do I know that it is almost done?  I don't know that either, but I feel that to finish it, I just need a few good chapters, and to get the mix done.  I can do it, I know I can, but I just need the boost, to get over this 'block' thing.

So, I am not writing today.  Maybe not even tomorrow.  I will wait until it hits me.  I will re-read the chapters that I wrote, and then I will be able to get back into the story - and be able to finish it.  get it published, get the sixth one published!  I really need to do this, to finish it.  I hate not finishing something that I have started.  It's like my baby - its mine and I want it out there in cyberspace, where it can be read by the one person that buys my books will read it.  Yep, I'm good with that.  So, I will be scrapbooking with my famous sister in law tomorrow, instead of writing.  I have things to do, and things to create, before I write...

D M Wiseman, procrastinating while still trying to write, published author...

Saturday and its still raining...with good news as well...

It's Saturday morning, and I woke to hear the sound of wheezing, coughing, and generalized breathing distress.  For a minute, I digressed to when the boys were little again.  S used to get bronchitis quite often, had croup on a regular basis, and these breathing noises brought it all back.  God I miss having babies.

Then, sanity came back.  I do not miss having BABIES.  My boys are men now, and probably in the next five years I will have grand babies.  But, just every once in a while, I get the pang.  My famous sister in law Holly understands this.  She gets what we call our 'baby fix' by seeing friends babies.  And now, yes I am going to say it aloud (actually in cyberspace) SHE is going to be a grandmother.  Her oldest daughter is pregnant, and it is even better - she is having twins.

Twins run in our husband's family and now twins are here again.  I will be able to get my baby fix quite often, as we will all have to pitch in and help.  We are already discussing cupcakes for the baby shower.  I think it will be pastels, animals, no - maybe primary colors, but still animals.  Any way, we have time.

I have a pang of envy - I would have loved to have the first grand babies in the family - but I can be the best Grand Aunt ever!  Besides, this is shell shocked talk, because there is no way my kids want kids right now.  And I know it.  They say they are not ready, and I agree with them.  I'm not old enough to be a Grandmother.  But, who is ready, really? 

Oh, and it was my husband, my friend, my soul mate that is sick - all congested, bronchitis and such.  I gave him a breathing treatment, breakfast and then off to the bath to steam his lungs open.  He is hacking up half his lungs, and it will be a weekend of listening to him hack and whine about being sick.  I hate being a nurse sometimes.  When I get paid, it is not too bad, but on my off time?  Ok, so it doesn't suck.  I just like NOT having to worry about stuff once in a while...

D M Wiseman, new to the idea of being a Grand Aunt - my word!, and still published author...

Rain rain go away. I'm not complaining but...

Why is it that the week is gorgeous, hot and sunny - and the weekend comes, and it rains?  We are not going to the boat today (after my time with my sister at the U getting the chemo she calls rat poison!).  No, it is raining and the wind is horrible which causes me to spin on the boat.  It is not pretty, so staying home tonight is the plan. 

We are going tomorrow, regardless of the rain - there are meds for the spinning, so I can function, but tonight, I am not pushing it.  The dogs are laying at my feet (new couch and the Boomer can't get on it - his little legs can't get him up!) and my husband, my friend, my soul mate is sitting on the chair playing with his new toy - an iPad.  He loves it.  I do too, but I already have an iPhone - and I can live without it.  What I want is one of those notebooks... the smaller laptop that I can drag around, and still download to the main computer at home, burn to a CD or keep my book on the thumb drive.  I really want one.  If I don't just buy one, I will drop LOUD hints about my birthday coming up...

This week, I worked four straight nights.  That is a horrible thing to do, but it gives me three off with the husband (etc).  We went to look at houses with S and V - they are going to live less than a mile from St -and the house they were looking at, is very similar to St's.  It is cute, has a lot of personality, along with landscaping - even has one of those Koi ponds in the fenced back yard!  Important word fenced - Leo, my grand puppy needs his own yard.  And the best part of this is that now my two dogs can go to their house when we go to Miami in August! (a whole nother story why we are going to Miami in August!  Hot, yep but I can't wait!). 

So I am one happy mom - both boys will be living within a mile of each other and not too far from us!  I love my son's spouses to be, and its summer.  It is raining, but I am not complaining!

D M Wiseman, happily writing in the rain, published author...

What a week, what a night, what kind of life is this?

I am getting too old for this, I have decided.  Not the blog, not the writing, not the published author bit.  But, I am too old for working midnights and not getting any sleep.  I have decided that I need sleep.  If I don't get enough, I am crabby, I am slow and I find myself obsessing about how much I am going to get - you know, if I go to sleep now, I'll only get X hours of sleep.  I then amend every time the time changes.

So, I find myself obsessing about the bed.  About the covers, about the air conditioning, about which dog is snoring, and virtually everything that can screw up my naps!  I take the phone to the side of the bed with me, and then curse it when it rings and I wake up to answer it.  Why don't I just NOT answer, and turn off the ringer?  Because I feel the need to answer it.  I have children, I have a fire fighter for a husband.  I have to answer the phone.  Actually, I don't, right?  Tell that to me over and over again, and I might turn the damn thing off.

I also get up and let the dogs out, if they need to go out.  They can go 12 hours at night, 12 hours if we leave them and go out without them, 12 hours if it is raining.  So, why can't they wait a few hours why I sleep?  I don't know. 

I also need to get up and occasionally pee.  Yep, I'll say it.  I can't NOT pee in the day sleep time.  I can go all night (when it is night - ha!) without getting up, but when I sleep in the day, I can't NOT get up.  Why is that?  Oh, because I drink tea all night when I work...that's why I have to get up all day when I sleep... but seriously, I get up way too many times. 

I get up way too many times...and it's all at my own fault.  Yep, I am to blame, but anyway, is this any way to live?  I eat, sleep, and obsess about both.  I have lost 25 pounds since I started my wedding diet (the one where I need to lose 50 pounds and my muffin tops in order to look great in the dress I am wearing to S and V's wedding in June of 2012), and watch everything I eat balancing it on my 2 5 10 diet that is working amazingly well...but I digress...

I will not obsess about my sleep, I will continue to work, and eat a well balanced 2 5 10 diet meals.  Then, I will sleep when I am tired, and when I am not tired, I will write until I am.  This is my new goal.  It's a good goal, but not going to work today, as I got up twice to pee, once to let Boomer outside, and the phone rang twice.  Oh well.  There is always tomorrow...

D M Wiseman, with an empty bladder, bags under my eyes, and yawning, but writing away, published author...

Just another wonderful rainy weekend on the boat with two dogs...

Yep, I  took the dogs to the boat on Friday - after I attempted to nap - every phone solicitation company decided to call me just an hour into my three hour sleep.  The DTE company called to warn me they are coming to look at the meter and wanted my dogs in.  They usually call about six times - it's a recording.  I hang up. 

Then the bank called to see if I wanted to do something with my money - like invest it or move it around.  I told them to stop calling me in the day, as I will MOVE my money right out of their bank if they don't let me sleep.  This was the fourth such call in less than two weeks.  They must have nothing to do but watch my bank accounts for me.  I told them to stop asking me, or I will move my money totally out of their bank.  Seriously.  I need to sleep.

Then, a lawn cutting company called to see how my lawn was.  I decided to get up, take a quick shower, and pack up the dogs.  No one calls me at the boat to ask about my lawn.  I had to stop one place and left the dogs a total of six minutes in the car all alone.  Boomer was in the front seat, driver side of course, and Gracie was half in the front, with back half still in back.  Took a bit of coaxing to to get them back into the back seat.  My day was going down hill fast.

Once we got to the boat, and unloaded all the stuff - enough for two weekends, but I had to pack for cold and wet, as well as hot and humid.  Those are the options for boat weekends.  Then as I got the last load on, it started to rain.  It has rained since, until this am, and now it is sunny!!

I am not complaining, but today we have to go home!  I know, we could stay overnight again, but we need to get up early on Monday - the actual holiday Memorial Day, to go to a parade.  Yep, my husband, my friend, my soul mate is officiating at a parade, you know, putting a wreath on a grave site as part of the parade.  It's in Keego Harbor.  Then I will nap, in order to get a head start on my week to work.  I am so excited to go to work on a holiday just so someone else won't have to get paid OT.  Yep, because I won/t.  Sounds fair.

I will probably get more written today while I do laundry, and then tomorrow when I finish laundry.  My husband (etc) goes away on Wednesday or Thursday and will be gone a week, so I'll get a lot done.  And have a busy weekend.  Leo is coming for a week (grand puppy extraordinaire) and niece to spend the weekend scrapping.  So, I'll be busy, and happy.  I will miss my husband (etc) but am filling the days...

D M Wiseman, dizzy due to the boat movement, and wet, writing out of our covered deck, published author

Never give yourself a deadline that you can't possibly make - kind of day...

I really need to get the book edited, but its Thursday, and I work tonight - then I will be on the boat for three days before I go back to work again.  I am definitely bringing the computer to the boat - that way I can write as I sit on the deck, watching the other boaters as they frantically try to get the most of their weekend.  It happens every weekend. 

We go out on Friday's and my husband, my friend and my soul mate cleans the boat up before the place gets busy, and then we watch the people clean their boats.  We love the drama that goes on.  I love to read the names of the boats - like the boat is named Captain Hook, and is from Never Never Land.  The actual captain is retired, and only has one hand.  I love the real names.  I named our boat - its great for my husband's (etc) blood pressure.  Just being on the boat makes the stress fall away, so our boat is named Rx:  Hullistic Medicine.  The dingy is named Refill.  Get it?  Well, we like the name.

There are other names that are poetic, some nautical, and others make no sense.  I make up stories for those kind.  I really like the stories that I make up for the people as well.  There is only time to rest and relax when we are on the boat.  I will write, and edit and get that book done - before the summer really gets going.  I really want the 'done' feeling again.  I really like the 'done' feeling.

In the mean time, I have to get motivated, get dressed, get my spa day in - maybe that will motivate me.  Something has to give.  I am dragging my butt here.  And sadly, I know why.  I truly hate my job.  There I have said it aloud (well wrote it down kind of metaphorically aloud) and I can take a deep breath about it.  I have to wait 6 months to try for a new job, and then I will at least try to make my self feel better about my self.  I need to get out of this hole that I am in...  It's a self dug hole, and I, myself and me, am the only one that needs to get myself out of the dark cramped hole that is my life.

I am not saying that I am really low, I just need to get myself some self confidence.  I like the 'done' feeling, even though no one buys my books but my sisters.  I still feel validated.  I really want the feelings that I got when I was in school, college, not high school, the feeling that I am accomplishing something.  A chapter in a book, a project, a test, and then a course completed with an A.  Then the first degree, the second, then my Master's degree and along with it, move up in the food chain with the knowledge and experience that I had.  I am backwards now, and I hate it.  I need to get it myself again

I will take the computer to the boat, to write, edit, and then spend a good amount of time to work on my resume and look for another job.  One that makes me feel better about myself,  Me Myself and I.  I will do this, I will be better, I really need to do this.

D M Wiseman, feeling a bit ridiculous and still a published author...

Boat in the slip, out in the sun and dogs on the way...

After spending a good four hours walking around and looking at all kinds of stamps, learning how to make new cards, making the coolest cards, buying things to make cool cards - with my sister Pat, Carol, my famous sister in law Holly, and Penny her mom - we were at the Southfield Pavilion at the Civic Center Park area in Southfield, at the 'Keep Stamping' Show.  We were all learning and buying, and planning the new ideas for cards, tags and bags.  This was one fun show!

After doing that, I picked up the dogs - and my clothes, along with a few things for the puppies - and I drove off to the marina - Boomer was an old sea dog regarding this, was excited to go, and just went running down the dock, up the tide stairs and onto the boat.  Gracie, she was not so good at this.  She fussed about the dock.  And when we got to the tide stairs, she balked.  There was NO WAY she was going up the stairs.  We ended up putting a piece of carpet across the stairs, so she wouldn't see that she was going up stairs.  then getting down the first stairs to the salon - I was exhausted.  She finally got it down pat, and relaxed about the stairs, the movement of the boat - and that we were not going to leave her.

Spent the night on the boat, and both my husband, my fried, my soul mate - we felt good about her on the boat.  I was worried about how she would do.  There still is the issue on whether or not over the Fourth of July will be the end of the good times.  She goes nuts in thunder storms, and the fireworks on the Fourth - well time will tell.  I am not so sure how it will be, but we are going to attimept it.  I don't want to mess up our weekends that we spend on the boat - she has to be able to function out on the boat.    Boomer is really good on the boat, but he has been going there since he was still a little puppy.  I have hope.

I was going to get up this morning, write a few chapters, and then nap this afternoon before I have to work.  So, that didn't happen.  One, I slept in a bit, didn't bring the computer to the boat, and no napping as laundry needs to be done.  I will hit the caffeine soon, and then get on with dinner, before I go on to work.

D M Wiseamn, getting my sea legs back, dealing with Gracie, and work, published author...

So tired I can't think straight..kind of Friday...

After working four ten hour shifts (oh - ok, I'll tell the truth - two twelves, an eleven, and a ten) in a row; I took my sister to the U of M hospital and found out she needs to boast her blood counts, before they can give her more chemo to kill what she just boasted.  Makes sense, sure.

So, I am just getting the feeling to sleep, I was too keyed up and then I had to eat and calm down, so now, I am getting ready to get to sleep.  I probably will wake up early anyway, going to bed before it's quite dark yet.  I am such a wuss.  I am, really not - I usually stay up long, but tonight - I'm done.

D M Wiseman, self proclaimed wuss, and yet still stayed up enough to write that she couldn't write, published author...

I'm writing again and it feels good...

Alright!  I woke up with a headache from the 48 plus hours that it has been raining and decided to concentrate on writing SOMETHING today.  First, I had to run to the store for dog food - the puppies were almost out of dog food, and the cookies were gone.  It was a necessary evil - to go to Sam's Club on a rainy Sunday.  My advise - don't run out of cookies on a Sunday... it was a zoo, more than a zoo, a monster zoo!

So, we - my husband, my friend, my soul mate and I came in to NO POWER.  Yep, thank God we have a generator or I couldn't watch a TV program about "Aftermath:  Population Zero" - when all the people are gone from Earth while I write.  I don't think I could have lived without watching this show.

Any way, the generator is making our electricity and I am writing, doing laundry, as well as tossing the new toys (they needed them - really they did!) for the puppies.  All is well, I'm writing and all is well!  Hopefully, the story line is the way it should go, because that is the direction it is going...

D M Wiseman, happy in the rain, with gasoline made electricity and writing again, published author...

It's Saturday and I am behind again...

I worked the last few nights, didn't get much sleep, and I didn't even turn on the computer.  I finally got to turn it on after lunch today (once I woke up!) and now I realize that I am way way behind in all my goals.

I didn't finish the book I was writing, and so I failed in my quest to get the sixth book on my publishing site www.smashwords.com by the end of April.  I was going to be working on the seventh book by now.  Not happening.  BUT, I got THE email from The Light and Sound site www.nanowrimo.com where I first wrote my book and won the November 2010 contest - and they are doing a summer contest!!!  Yes, the motivation I need.  The email reved me up!

I will start one of the books that I have outlined in my thoughts.  I want to be a winner again!  I want to write a novel that is more than 50,000 words in 30 days - in one month (not sure which month it is going to be) that will be the drive I need to get another book out there.  I want to finish the one I am procrastinating about finishing, and then WRITE the next one that will be the seventh!!!  It is the best way to get me fired up again.  I know I can do it, if there is a national goal out there!

I could even start on another one, if I get going like I did with the first book, 'Bryn's Family Plan' - I wrote that one in 8 days, so I could, if I was motivated enough, write two in the month... but I will be realistic and set the goal for the one.  Then, I will amend the goal, if needed.  I momentarily thought about putting the one I am not done with yet, aside, but I need to finish it.  If I can't get it going, I will put it aside, then finish it later.  Better to do it that way then.  I keep going back and forth about it, so in the next few days, I will make up my mind, and let you know.  As soon as I know, that is.

I started to re-read the last chapters, and realized it really is good, just that I am stuck in the story and I need to get my head around it - I need to figure out where to take the story line.  I wish someone could just give me a push, because I am really stuck.  Just give me a week, I will get it going again.  And I will finish it.  Before the contest...maybe...or put it aside and start anothe, which ever...

D M Wiseman, behind, but re-energized by the contest coming up, going to finish what I started, published author

At long last - insomnia has hit again...

I am awake, and its after 2am in the morning.  I only had about 3 hours of sleep last night - or really this morning, today, and I am tired, but not able to fall asleep.  I could really use the sleep.  I need to sleep, because I need to get some - before I go back to work again tomorrow.  I need to get into some kind of habit, a routine, or something before I can't.  It isn't an outrageous need.  It's just sleep.

I got so bad yesterday, needing sleep that I drank some dew - and I haven't had any for over 3 weeks.  It tasted so good too.  But I don't want to get hooked again, on the dew.  It was my down fall - the addiction to the dew.  I love the dew.  But, it causes an abnormal heart rate, with funky beats.  So, I needed to cut back, and take a break from the whole caffeine thing.  Not that I wanted to!  I love the dew, love the taste, and working midnights - love the caffeine.

I really need to write as well, need to stay up and write, so it's ok to have the insomnia, but honestly - I really need to get some sleep...

D M Wiseman, yawning, but not able to fall asleep, published author...

Well, I am officially messed up again in my sleeping patterns...

I worked the last two weeks on midnights, so I have my sleep patterns down - kind of.  But, then today, I had to go on a day shift meeting for 8 hours, so I am off on my sleep again.  I was NOT tired last night, so couldn't sleep, and then today yawned through the entire meeting.  I swear I almost fell asleep in the lecture.  Thank God we were 'inneracting' during the meeting, and I was the one who had to 'transport' the messages.  It entailed moving around a lot.  I wouldn't have made it otherwise.

I feel that my pattern, when I chose to, can be screwed around with, but not when someone else does it.  I need my sleep, my way.  Just like when I want to write, I need to write.  When I finally got my second wind during the lecture, I got a thought - you know one of those thoughts, and I started writing down stuff on my note pad - in long hand!  So, I will write these notes down so I can read it later - my hand writing is not the best... OK, it's really bad, but usually I can read it my self.  So, any way, I will record my little notes, and get on THAT story that came into my head during a work meeting, next.

Right now, watching the season and final episodes of Stargate Universe - yeah, I'm a Sci Fi nut - and listening to the puppies both snoring... while my husband, my friend, my soul mate, is falling asleep in his chair.  All is good at the W household.  I had all my kids (S, V with Leo, St and K) over for dinner yesterday, played the dogs in the pond, and had a good day.  I was validated as a mom - they like me.  I love them all.  I got bath scents and a bottle of wine - from St and K, and a corn on the cob thing (it removes the corn from the cob) and a picture from S and V.  I am a happy mom.

D M Wiseman, got another new idea to write and ready to write it, published author...

Another missed few days and a quick blog to get caught up!

I worked on Thursday, had a nice shift, then slept for a quick bit on Friday before going to watch my wonderful daughter in law to be V, graduate from MSU!!!! Yeah, she was so beautiful, so happy, and now is official grown up!  She starts her new job after she goes to South America - Chile and Argentina, for a semester abroad, then the real world.

On Saturday we were supposed to put the boat into its slip - from the indoor slip to the outdoor slip,  the guy was wheeling it out, and we didn't want to take the chance of bad weather again, before that was finished, so left it in the building for one more week - then move it next weekend.  So, I went grocery shopping, bought a Xyron thing to scrapbook - it was 40% off - can't beat that! a present for myself.  By the way, I got a picture from S and V of them when they were in Jamaica - kissing, with V's leg doing the leg 'pop' thing.  I just love it! 

Then S and V brought Leo over to spend the night, and we are all having dinner - even St and K!  My whole family will be here on Mother's day!  Yeah, the best present ever!

I will write later, after everyone is back home, and we are kind of back to normal.  I really needed this time with my family.  I don't get to see all of them together very often.  We are having bar b que!  It will be a great dinner.  I love pork ribs on the grill...

D M Wiseman, mother of two, almost four, and having a really great day...published author...

Missed a couple of days, but what a ride!

I worked Monday night, and then came home so tired that I set my alarm all wrong.  How I got up in time was beyond me, as I got up two hours before the set time - and then realized that I should have gotten up then anyway!  I am not sure how I did it...but I was on the road to Mt Pleasant to the Soaring Eagle Casino to attend an ENA conference - you know, for ED nurses and EMS personnel to learn as well as network and all those other buzz words...

I had a good time, as well as learned a lot too.  Like even after having two glasses of wine, and a few margaritas (from a box no less!) I can still play Eureka.  I did really well, even though I hadn't played in a while, but I guess the wine helped, or the lack of sleep - but really, I held my own - and M Most and I did really well beating the two Marks.  It's all in the count - and I wasn't in Vegas, so card counting isn't illegal, and we weren't gambling - LS was and she won big...but I digress...

I learned a lot of good things, met up with all kinds of old friends, met some new ones and really had a nice time.  I missed my husband, my friend, my soul mate - he stayed home with the puppies - who acted like maniacs when I came in the door.  I also had dinner with my wonderful niece on Tuesday night, played video poker before the drunken Eureka game, and really bonded with her - she graduates from CMU on Saturday.  She is such a sweetie.

I also got the best idea yet, for another book.  I will spend the rest of the night putting the thoughts down on paper, and tomorrow work on 'Then Again' that I really need to finish... I really need to do it, I really need to finish it, I really need to...oh, a new idea is so much more fun, but I really need to finish that book...I will do it!!!  Tomorrow, tomorrow I will do it!  Maybe I should write about procrastination, since I am really doing a good a job of it on my own...

D M Wiseman, procrastination queen, getting the job not-done, but still a published author...

Cropped all yesterday, chillin' and laundry today, before going off to wrok...

I have to do laundry today, in order to go to work tonight.  My week is busy!  Yesterday I had a great time doing the scrapbook thing with my famous sister in law Holly, our friend Michele and mutual friends Paula and Cindy.  Its a pyramid scheme... right there at www.thescrapbookemporium.com

Paula got Holly into scrapbooking along time ago, when Creative Moments first hit the main stream crofters.  Then, Holly got Michele into it, who got Cindy hooked.  I am the latest in the crazed group, just over six months doing cropping thing.  We were having a good time, making pages, playing with new toys and getting going, when we had to break to have Chinese for dinner.  Then, after eleven hours of getting all of our stuff all over our area (mine on the floor, Holly's on the table next to her, Michele and Cindy's all mixed in - Paula just kept buying new paper...) we had to stop, and put it all away, so we could go home.  I have to admit, the weekend crop thing gets more done - you don't have to stop and clean up.  Ha!

Holly is going to 'host' a weekend scrapbook thing - so I will be helping her.  It will be close to home, so her wonderful husband can help cook for the weekend.  Yummy.  We will have a good time planning, as well as hosting the thing.  My sister will come, the party will begin!  In the mean time, I have to get through this week, to get to my regular scheduled schedule...

I work tonight Sunday, tomorrow night, Monday then on Tuesday (after sleeping a little) I go to Soaring Eagle to a conference that is Tuesday and Wednesday.  Thursday, our new furniture is coming to replace the new furniture that we got in November (under six months, and the recliner thingy broke - they are replacing both the chair as well as the couch).  I work again Thursday night, then off until Monday.

Friday night is a great and wonderful night!  V is graduating from MSU !!!  Yeah!  We are going to dinner first, then the ceremony in East Lansing.  It will be very special as this is her Master's.  She starts her new job in June, after a semester in South America.  Saturday, S and V are coming over to spend the weekend to celebrate the Mother's Day weekend with us.  St will be here as well.  Does anybody smell Bar B Que?

So I am not sure when I will get a chance to write this week... Next week, I will be on my every other week schedule of Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday, Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday.  It will be easier when I know when to work, to sleep, to eat, and WRITE!  But for now, I need to do the laundry, then take a nap before I go off to work.

D M Wiseman,   tired, mixed up, and busier than ever, published author...

Woah! I didn't blog for three days, but I worked and slept!

It's Friday already - the week just flew by!  Although the nights certainly didn't.  I went to work Tuesday night, and all of a sudden it's Friday night.  I worked and slept the week away.  I usually work 10 hour shifts, and have more time to 'live' but I am on 12's which means I work and sleep - nothing in between - no time.  But with 10's I can - and even have dinner with my husband, my friend, my soul mate.

I saw him on Monday night, and besides the phone calls, didn't think I would see him until tonight - but he surprised me and came home before I left for work yesterday - it was our 27th year anniversary!   I got a great card, and a dozen pale pink roses.  They were beautiful and smelled wonderful.  I love them!  It was a nice thing for him to do, come home early and eat dinner with me.  We had a nicer dinner tonight - steaks on the grill etc.  Love that man!

Tomorrow I am doing a 12 hour shift - but cropping with my famous sister in law Holly at her place of joy and employment www.thescrapbookemporium.com in Shelby Township.  It is fun, we talk, crop, laugh, and genuinely have a good time.  I am ready - I have pictures to use, paper to use, and a plan this time.  I want to get 8 pages done for sure, but will go for 10.  I am not sure if I will, but it's a good plan. 

Next week, I work Sunday, Monday then Thursday, but Tuesday and Wednesday I will be in Mt. Pleasant, at the Soaring Eagle - at an ENA (Emergency Nurse's Association) conference.  Great to see friends and learn too.  I will spend some time writing, as I don't usually do the gambling thing there.  I never win, and its just like throwing money in the fire, but my husband (etc) won enough one year to buy a Jacuzzi - its on porch and is an awesome feeling to sit under the stars, soaking up the heat, with no one but the deer to see!  Yep, I love my hot tub!

I will try to write more this weekend, and up date on what I am writing on next...and what I am aiming for...

D M Wiseman, getting a lot done this weekend, and spending quality time with family as well, published author

A lazy, but productive Monday doing laundry...

I got up today, started laundry and had not planned to go out at all - just hang out with the puppies, do a little writing, make Indian food for my husband, my friend, my soul mate (I don't eat it - too spicy, I ate plain chicken) and then an unexpected journey out.  I found three fleas just walking around on Boomer's face - right between his eyes!

I immediately went out to the store to buy Dawn dish washing liquid - the plain blue kind - it kills the fleas, and then this stuff called Frontline that will keep the fleas from coming back.  Expensive, but worth it, as those fleas are horrid little things.  Put some on Gracie too.  Creepy things, those little blood sucking fleas.  They are next on the list after spiders...but I will not go over that business at this time...

I worked on the pages that I am making with my Cricut - I am making an album with pages about my novels that I have written.  I have the covers, the www.smashwords.com blurb as well as a CD of my books - saved for the world - in case.  They are also on a thumb drive, as well as on my computer.  I am nothing, if not thorough, to keep copies of them all safe.  I also have actual hard copies of three of the five, so far.  I just want to make sure, after all - these are my 'ideas'.  Gotta save them.

I start midnights tomorrow night so I will stay up late tonight, and get into the grove for the next three nights, then off for three.  The next week is going to be back and forth, nights then awake, so this week will help me get ready for that week...  Then I start my normal four nights in a row, three off... I can do it.  I know I can, I have done it plenty of times before.  And I will get in the grove to write, snuggle with the dogs, and sleep!

D M Wiseman,  feeling the need to finish the book! and publish already...

Happy Easter! And time with my oldest son St...

Happy Easter to all.  Spent time with S and V yesterday, and now with St today, having dinner at our house - the non-typical dinner of Bar B Q !  We are having Salmon with honey barbecue sauce and St is having chicken.  But I am doing all the vegetables on the grill too.  I like grilled veg's!  And even better, I don't do the grilling...

I am sitting here, after talking to my mom, my sister Pat (she is up at my mom's house inland from Tawas, little town called National City - no relation to the Bank) and then my sister Barb thinking I can't remember the last Easter we all were together.  When the boys were little, we would take them to North Myrtle Beach and stay at these great Condos called the Beach Cove.  It was right on the water, had a great beach, and a 'river' running under it that you could ride on inner tubes.  The Beach Cove was within walking distance to this pier that was my inspiration for the pier on the cover of my first book "Bryn's Family Plan" and my awesome cover artist got it perfectly...

I write about this because my sister Barb just read my book "The Usual Reasons" and wondered why all of it was in Michigan.  I live in Michigan.  But the other books, like the trilogy - were in Maine.  I had to research that area to write about it.  The one I am writing now, starts in North Carolina - on Oak Island (my mother in law used to live there) and then goes on to a Cruise Ship (been on five) and will end in Maine - eventually.  So, I write what I know.  And my next novel will be in Michigan once again.

I will write a few chapters today, but after my husband, my friend, my soul mate does some financial stuff on my computer - it is faster and can get the work done faster.  I really think that I might get it done by Tuesday when I go to work.  Well, that is a goal, but the real one is the end of the week - the end of the month was my original goal.  I need to get it done.  I have too many in my head that need to get down on paper... and I was validated by my sister Pat that couldn't put "The Usual Reasons" down - even got up in the night with a special light that goes on her Nook - to read.  I was geeked!  She didn't have to lie - we're sisters.  Barb liked it too.  Yeah!

D M Wiseman,  validated by my sisters, that I am a great writer, and soon to be another published author...

Sun, and warmth, and another chapter written...

Woke up this morning to the sun shining- the actual sun!  It was out and it was in the 60's by mid afternoon which is amazing because I don't trust the weather lately.  But, I was not happy to see that tomorrow, it will be cold and rainy again (so much for Easter!).  I am not overly thrilled with the rain, but when it is cold and rainy, I do not like it at all.  But, the rain is not always so bad...

We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate met S and V, along with Barb and Ron - V's parents for a pre-wedding meeting at Applebee's mid way between our homes.  We had a great dinner, and talked of all kinds of things.  A get to know you better kind of meeting, along with going over the budget for the wedding and details of the day next June that will forever link our families.  I like them.  I have spent time with Barb before - at a Bride's Expo as well as the dress buying fun day we had a few weekends ago.  Ron, I met before too, when we painted S and V's apartment.  And, we had met them last year at a Regatta or two, but we were not in law's to be then.

I got a quick chapter written today, and hope to finish another before I sleep tonight, and more tomorrow because I will be doing laundry - while it rains.   I hate the rain, but I don't feel guilty staying in doors when it rains, and I know maybe in the future the weather will get nicer - it has to, right? and I won't want to stay in and write - but thank God for electricity and batteries! because I can go out on the veranda and write while the puppies play outside...

I have so much to do, so much to write, so little time - that I have to multi-task, and writing while watching the puppies play outside, well that is my way of multi-tasking.  Like writing while doing laundry, or talking to myself while driving - trying out new story lines (not necessarily means that I am nuts, just saying).  So, I am an amazing writer, for multi-tasking as writing.  I am not just being a slug, watching bad TV while writing...really, I am doing all kinds of things at the same time... OK, so sometimes I'm not really, just pretending to, but I mean well...

D M Wiseman,  another chapter written, just so much closer to being published again, author...

It's Good Friday, and it was snowing AGAIN this morning...

Honestly!  Aren't we ever going to see Spring?  It was raining, snowing, and sleeting all at once this morning, and it is Good Friday.  It is a week away from being May and Sunday is Easter.  There is no reason to worry, but I think the weather men on TV are doing something to the weather.  Any time there is an odd weather thing going on, we all watch the News to find out how bad the weather will be - and usually - they are wrong.

But, now, the weather is coming true.  It is the Snowmaggedon, the Snowpocalypse etc that happened a few months back, and now, it is still cold.  It is still snowing.  I think it is a conspiracy against all of us that really need Spring, and then Summer!  Really, it is about time, don't you think?  We need to put away our winter coats and boots.  We really need to wear short sleeves!  Please, can't we just see the sun once before fall?

Ok, that is all I will say about that, because I am almost done with the book!  Yeah, and when it is nicer weather, I won't get very much writing done at all, so I need to get it done.  I am at odds with my need to see the sun, and the need to not waste the nice weather.  So, I will finish then go out in the sun.  I will, really.  And then start the next one...too!

D M Wiseman,  a bit off today, and still writing away, published author...

Next week will be our anniversary and then May!

We have been married for 27 years - my husband, my friend, and my soul mate.  I have loved him for more than half my life!  He is truly my soul mate.  I really do love him.  For our 25th anniversary, we went on an Alaskan cruise.  It was really nice to get away, spend time with our friends Barry and Cathy, and see the sites in the Alaskan wilderness.

Cathy and I wanted to go to Hawaii but we were over ruled by the guys - they didn't want to fly for 9 hours to get there.  But, I will get there some day!  And to Ireland, and Australia, to maybe the Blue Hole - and to the Keys.  That one is very close in my sites - we, my husband (etc) are going to Miami - and so the Keys, this summer. 

Yes, I did say this summer.  We are going to Miami in August!  I will be plastered in SPF +100 so I will not be a Lobster Red color and then peel off in disgusting flakes - after I look ridiculous for days.  Miami in August!  Not my first pick, but definitely a nice trip, and I will love to go.  I want to see the road that connects the isles.  I want to walk out into the ocean and then turn around and walk the other side, into the Gulf.  I really want to do this.  It would be so wonderful, so nice to do that.

I am making that road, part of the next novel - so it would be best if I went to see it, to experience it for myself!  It would be a tax deduction, since it would be for my novels!  I really would like to use what I see, and intend to.  I really would love to see them, just the same.  But, I will write it into the story and the Keys have always been a place I have wanted to see.  And see them I will...

I go to the U tomorrow, and will get a bit of writing in, while I wait with my sister.  I will also read a lot.  It is always a long day - and hard on her.  We spend it laughing, swearing, as well as reading - me, I'll be reading an Alex Delaware novel.  Barb will be reading one of my books...I think.  I really do need to finish another...

D M Wiseman,  there will be a road in my life in the near future, published author...

I really need to get into the next book, but first this one needs finishing...

I was stuck in traffic, thinking about how to fix the book that I am almost done with, and got to thinking about the next book, and wanted to stop to write, but I wasn't home yet.  I really need to get this one done, so I get on to the next one.

So, coming home, I had to wait to use the computer, then decided to check my email first, and saw that I sold another book.  I only sold a few this month, so I get a little excited, and rightly so.  I get the chills every time!  I really like when I sell one, it makes me feel validated every time - I am an author.  I feel like Sally Field - they like me, they really like me - you know, when she won some award, she said that.  Not that I am even close to being as famous (oh, all right, I am not famous at all, but it was a good quote) but it gets the message across.  Maybe some day, I'll be a little famous.

I just need to sell more books.  I will write more books, and then make my dream come true, to have published a good dozen books, and then some in print.  I know it is in my future, as I still have things to write, characters to 'birth' and get my ideas down on 'cyber' paper for others to read.  Man, I sound like I should be selling some pyramid scheme juice...but of course, I am selling my ideas, not juice.

D M Wiseman,  soon to be publishing another book, with more to come, already published author...

One more day shift left, and I am going to nights...

Count down is here - one more shift - meaning one more 12 hour shift.  Only 12 hours of days left - if you don't count the meeting I agreed to be at on Thursday morning, that is.  I just know that 12 hours tomorrow will be fine.  I used to say 'they can only hurt me for xxx amount of hours' until I was off shift.  But, that isn't really always true.  It can be a hateful shift, so now I say 'I can do anything for just xxx hours' and I think that is a better truth.

I like to work, but I like to give myself a deadline, for my writing, and for other things in my life as well.  I used to give myself a deadline when I went to school - especially when I took courses on my own, and then just took the test.  I really did well, if I gave myself the end date - because I could be a slug, and really can procrastinate if I let myself.  So, count downs are a good thing for me.  I am counting down until I go to midnights, because it is almost here.

And then, I read an article in the Nursing magazine that I read about sleep deprivation and shift work.  Of course, I read it.  I shouldn't have because it made no sense, in the way that they only told two ways that shift workers get ready for their shifts - switch back and forth between days and nights on their days off.  It didn't show the way I do it, but then again, they didn't ask me.

I stay up really late on Sundays, and get up on Monday early.  That way I am really tired, and can nap in the afternoon - then get up and stay up all night.  I would then be fine all week, until Friday am when I was NOT going back to work.  That is the change up day for me - I would only sleep a few (three usually) hours and get up, spend the day tired, but be able to go to sleep on Friday night, and be on the day schedule until Sunday night again.  That is how I do it.  They didn't ask me, as they said the number one way to stay up all night was the first night was to be up 24 hours.  That is not the way to do it...

I have been on midnights for most of my career, and did this for my children, and now I do it because it works for me.  And the shift premium doesn't hurt.  But, I go off to work, as my husband, my friend, my soul mate, goes to bed.  I sleep when he is at work, and that works fine - for us.  It gives me flexibility in my shifts, and extra time off.  I like it.  I get enough sleep, time to snuggle with the puppies, and dinner every night with my husband (etc) where right now, I am not getting enough of any thing.  So, I like nights.

I will get enough time to write, as well, as when I snuggle with Boomer in the morning, I will write... and on my days off...and while I do laundry, and on weekends...  I will prevail!  Yeah.  12 more hours...and I don't count the Thursday meeting...it's only 2 hours, after all...

D M Wiseman,   countdown to a regular schedule and published author...

I have TWO day shifts left...and I can't wait to get into a regular schedule...

I read my blog title for yesterday, and thought I really didn't mean to say that I didn't have fun at dinner - I just meant that it wasn't just girls after that - S met us and we had to NOT talk about it - the 900lb Gorilla that we all wanted to talk about - the dress that V picked out.  I can't even think about talking about it here either, because S sometimes reads my blog... let me just say, she is going to be more beautiful than she is already - and that is saying a lot.  She just 'glowed' and sparkled.  She was stunning.  Can't say enough and can't say anymore... I was so thrilled to be part of her day.  It was memorable.  And she's gorgeous in that dress...

I had a really nice day a work today as well - I finally felt like I was in a groove with the computer, the patients, and tomorrow I will be in a pain lecture for half my day - and then follow a case manager around, until I HUC.  Yep, an odd day, but it will be all about learning... and then I will drive home with my own thoughts on how to make the end of the 'Then Again' work.  I am at a stand still.  It needs a twist at the end, then I will feel good about the way the characters interact.  I have to 'like' it myself, first and foremost.  I will take a day off, and get it done.

Thursday, besides having lunch with my wonderful K - I will work on the book.  Maybe she has an idea - she is the most wonderful Editor in Chief of the Oakland Post and a Journalism major at the University.  She is bound to have an idea, or tell me I am on the right road.  She is one smart cookie... so lunch with K and then maybe just meet my famous sister in law Holly for a bit.  Friday is for the U and my sister Barb, so my week is packed... the weekend is for holiday and reflection.

I will be more than happy to get my novel done.  It is almost at my goal time - the end of April, and then I need to get going on the next one.  I will make my goal of an even dozen books, as well as getting one of them published in print - to further validate myself as an author.  I am a published author, and now I have more goals to meet...

D M Wiseman,  new goals, old goals, and it's only Monday, published author working away...

I had a fun time yesterday with just the girls, until dinner...

I watched a girl try on dresses and become the most gorgeous of women - in the most perfect dress for her!  She is absolutely beautiful and looks beyond beautiful.  She is gorgeous!  And the shoes are perfect!  Makes me want to try high heels.  I would probably fall off the heels and kill myself, but they are too gorgeous.

I also found a dress that I like, it is dark purple, and S and V, and Barb and all the others at the dress trying on day - they loved it.  I just hope it fits, and I don't look like a big egg plant in it!  I love the front and the drape of the cowl, as well as the embroidery on the back... I really like that dress. 

I really need to reconnect with my friend Cindy - she was one of the first people to read my books.  That's not why I need to see her though.  She introduced me to my husband, my friend, my soul mate - and she was my maid of honor in our wedding.  I miss talking to her, but her job, my job, and our lives don't collide much, but we are going to make them collide.  I am going to stalk her this week... she has no way out of Thursday, or maybe even over the Easter weekend... she is going to have a meal with me!

I wrote my chapter out last night, and now I like it.  While doing the laundry today, I will continue to pound it out, and will get it done...  There is no doubt of that!  I can feel the end coming... and then to start the new one!  I really like this one, and I want to write the next one too... I realize now, that I could NOT have done the Screen Play month contest, because of all the stuff that is going on in my life.  I can't even breathe, get anything else in - I need time to sleep, eat, breathe, snuggle with puppies, and spend time with my husband (etc) - so, really, I couldn't have done it.  BUT next year, I will... and November - I am ready for...

D M Wiseman,  committed, before I am committed... published author...

Off to watch V try on wedding dresses! and quality time with friends...

Today, I am off to the E Lansing area to watch V try on wedding dresses with her sister, friend and V's Mom Barb - and spend quality time as well, dinner with son S.  I am excited, as I have no daughters and would not normally get to do this!  So, this is really nice - and I will have two soon!  I already went to a Bride's Expo thing with them, so it's exciting.  The mom of the groom usually doesn't get to do stuff like this...

I just found out yesterday that my oldest son St's wonderful K has been elected to her SECOND year as Editor in Chief of the Oakland Post - which is the official paper of Oakland University.  A very prestigious title indeed.  She is also just completing an internship at the Detroit Hour magazine as well.  Next she takes finals, then off for 10 weeks to the great State of Kentucky to do an internship at the Louisville's Courier Journal.  She is always busy and definitely does way more in one semester than I accomplish all year!  Well, yeah - that's true now.  But I did get my Bachelors and Masters Degrees while working full time with two little boys, so I haven't always been a slacker!  Ha.  I just slack sometimes, in PJ's while I write... is that slacking?

I am proud of both my boys - now men, and their choices of women.  I love them both!  All of them!  St and K as well as S and V.  I have lucked out tremendously because I truly like my kids, and the girls too.  They are fun to talk to, be with, and just spend time with.  Good job me!  My husband, my friend, my soul mate spent a lot of quality time with the boys - when I was working midnights, sleeping and studying to give them a great basis for family.  They turned out to be well adjusted and intelligent beings... as well as know how to have fun!  Love 'em! 

So, after I come back from E Lansing, I will write - actually re-write what I wrote yesterday.  I am not sure about that last chapter, but will read it again and see how to fix it.  Then, write some more... I need to get it done... and tomorrow, I will continue to write as I do the inevitable laundry...I work Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, have Thursday off - maybe a PJ day - then to U of M on Friday...  Then I start on my new schedule of midnights! 

Can't wait to get a set schedule to work and sleep - so that I can figure out how to work in my writing, as well as time to scrap with my sisters (April 30 is a twelve hour day - and I plan to make some wedding layouts, at least get the engagement page and proposal page done...).  I also need to get some quality time in with the pups and my husband (etc) as it is our 27th Wedding Anniversary on the 28th!  We plan on getting a good 50 years in... I love that man!  I base a few of my characters on him... don't tell!  But, I make them have guns, where he doesn't do guns...he could, but he is a 'politician' kind of guy...talks them down.  He is always calm and controlled.  Hmmm, I feel another character coming on...

D M Wiseman,  mother of the groom, and writer, as well as published author every day...

I had the most productive drive home...

I thought of another plot - story line - character interaction for my next novel on the way home from work today.  I have no idea where the story line hit me while I was driving, stuck in the 'rush hour' traffic that was going no where.  It just popped in, and I couldn't write it down!  I started to go over and over again, the start of the story, the way I think the story should go.  I really had a nice story going there, and then I had to give it up - to get home.

I know why I let the story run amok during my drives, but normally, I think of the one that I am working on.  This one, it just came to me.  I wrote a few of the thoughts, the names I thought would work, and the way that I think the story should go.  I wrote the ideas down, and now need to get the story in place, to get the ball running.  But, I need to finish "Then Again" the story I was writing that needs to come to a conclusion.  Maybe this weekend.  I think so, but not completely sure yet.  I know how I want it to end, but I need to get from A to B first...

I am drinking Green Tea, typing and snuggling with Boomer - feeling the puppy breathing snoring and happy to have me home.  I am now off until Monday.  Only three days next week to work days, and then the next - back on nights.  Then I will have a normal schedule, one that I can write around - be able to spend so much time per day, extra on my days off - writing.  I will just be upside down - I will be writing then sleeping in the day, and working all night.  The dogs will adapt - Boomer was used to it, Gracie will adapt.  I love nights, the opposite of the world - but it works for me - for our family.

My husband, my friend, my soul mate made me dinner again tonight, grilled Turkey breast meat - it was melt in the mouth good!  I am now 24 hours into my "17 Day Diet" - the way to eat differently, but healthy.  I miss the Dew, but am not dying - YET!  I really do miss my Dew.  Green Tea isn't so bad, but I need the caffeine that the Dew gives me.  I will get used to it, but I don't have to like it!  Soon I will be used to it, and the headache will be gone... I feel like I lost weight, but we'll see.

D M Wiseman,   spending a long drive making up a new story line, and finishing up the old, published author