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!!!!