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...