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...

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...