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...