It's November and NaNoWriMo and ME are back...

Ok, I'm back.  I has been a hell of a year.  I have been working full time midnights (and extra hours!) while spending a lot of time involved in the wedding of the century - youngest sone S got married to a wonderful woman that I love -V, and she is great for my kid.  Along with all this, J and I have been trying to buy a house on Corey Lake which is about three hours from our regular home, so every weekend driving back and forth ( sometimes the only sleep I get is the nap in the car...)  well as taking courses to finish the degree that the hospital I work for was making me get to keep my job that of course was costing a lot ($14,000 in one year !) and then on my birthday - yep, on my birthday, I was told my position was eliminated.  So out of a job and 7 weeks left to get the degree.  Seriously?  Making me a degree to keep the job, then eliminated my position.  But, I am being paid until April as severance - April!!! So, not worrying about working right now, just going to finish this degree AND write my next novel, as well help my sister whose cancer came back AGAIN.  Honestly, can't God concentrate on some one else for a while?  She needs a break!
November 1st and NaNoWriMo is on again.  I am beginning another novel and fully intend to win again this year.  One of these novels will make me money, I just know it.   I will keep this blog up to date as much as possible, while finishing this last class, site the novel of the ear, take care of my angel babies, and my best friend, love of my life, and husband - J.  And drive across the state twice a week to fix up the 1900's home we bought... My life is kind of full, but the only way I know how to live...

School, work, illnesses, oh my!

Yep, I am over whelmed...I work full time (a little violin is playing in the back ground) on midnights, I go to school to finish yet another degree I need to keep the full time midnight job (wine and cheese served next) and take care of my sister that the Cancer Devil hit again - fourth time is the charm right?  That's what they said last time...

So, I am not blogging on a regular basis but no one is quite caring since no one has noticed.  Its more of a cleansing process for me - a primary scream, only with words, and no scream - to blog out my frustrations!  I have a new book stuck in my head that I am virtually writing on the way to and from work, then when I get home, I do my homework, fall asleep only to get up and finish the homework I didn't quite finish before said passing out...and off to work once again.  I can't even get the premise down on paper (computer paper that is!) as of yet.  Maybe this Friday when I take B to the U for more chemo (she calls rat poison, which it probably is based on...another story, but its the best they got!).  Maybe late Friday night when I SHOULD be sleeping and because I am so tired, I can't, I'll write the story...or finish my paper that is due on Sunday...

Oh well.  I will get all the stuff done that I need to, get to work as I need to, be with my sister that I WANT to, and write when I can...after I get some sleep.  No more whining for me!

DM Wiseman, still an author, just on 'pause' for right now, published author

Well, it's been a while...

Yes, it has.  Why, then am I still hanging out, still blogging, when it doesn't show up?  I can't tell you what happened.  I might have messed up, made a mistake, or maybe just stopped writing all together...

I did all of the above.  I began a new job, a new semester in school the same week that the 2011 NaNoWriMo began and for the first time that I have set a deadline to finish something, I didn't.  I passed my classes.  I learned to do my new job (really that part wasn't hard, but for the longest time it was on days - yuck!) and only finished 3/4 of the book, so stopped counting words.  I just didn't finish it.  I will, but I have a paper due first...

Now, you ask, what does this blog do for me?  Well, it will be in the place of a counselor.  Yes, my wonderful sister B has cancer once again.  Fourth times a charm! Ha.  Not so much.  She is sick of being sick.  Actually, when we find out the cancer is back, she is not sick at all.  Its after the radiation and chemo treatments that she is sick!  So, dear friends, I will be working, going to school, trying to be a mother-in-law to be to two wonderful women that my two sons are marrying, a good wife, friend, etc to my wonderful husband, my friend, my love of my life, as well as still try to write, between caring for my sister and occasionally two grandpuppies, along with my two monster dogs.  Yeah.  I'm a bit busy...

Here's to stress - it keeps you on your toes...

DM Wiseman, already published author and seriously tired woman...

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...