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...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
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...
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...
Friday, July 15, 2011
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...
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...
Monday, July 11, 2011
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!
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!
Friday, July 8, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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...
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...
Monday, July 4, 2011
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 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!!!!
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