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....