do nanowrimo every year

After much pondering and back-and-forthing, I’ve decided to try this again for the fourth year. I am depressed at my inability to find an agent for 2006’s Infectious Beauty, not to mention how I get stuck every time I try to rewrite 2007’s Strangely Carved Forms, but hey, nothing succeeds like frustration. Or something.

I’ve made plans to attend the big WriteAThon on Nov 15, and if any other 43Ters are going, please send me a note.

Also, if you feel so inclined, stop by my donation page and drop a mark, a yen, a buck or a pound in the bin.

First of all, NaNoWriMo 2007 is history. I made it, and now I’m letting my 2007 novel incubate while I get caught up on some other things – for example, my day job. Also, I have a real-life, published book that needs revisions for its second edition. I’ve been ignoring the publisher while I’m doing my NaNoWriMo thing, and miraculously, she hasn’t killed me – yet.

I got so much help from my 43T friends with my hooks for Miss Snark’s contest last year. Miss Snark is now dead and gone (or, at least, her blog is) but I have some hooks for last year’s and this year’s novels that I want to throw out, for your amusement.

Let me know what you think of them.

It’s the oldest story in The Book. You eat from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and you pay the price in pain and heartache.

Jennifer Blake knows this story well. Jennifer’s life, like her makeup, is perfect. Then she is accidentally infected with a virus that gives her brains, but takes away her beauty.

As her life spins out of control, so do events in the lab that created the virus. Jennifer must fight to reconstruct her world as her brain reconstructs itself. Before, she had no use for other women before; now, her survival depends on a new set of alliances. If she plays it just right, she might even turn her loss into a gain for the father she loves.

Meanwhile, researchers struggle to unlock the potential of a virus that has the capacity to maim, but also to cure. Infectious Beauty explores the inner confines of the brain research laboratory — and the inner confusion in the brain of a 32 year old woman who is in the process of being reborn.





Seth Adamson wakes up in a new world, 500 years from the one he left. Seth’s new world is eerily similar to the one he left, but also radically different in ways he’s just come to appreciate.

He didn’t ask to be frozen; he didn’t ask to wake up. Now that he’s alive again, someone is trying to kill him. He’s falling in love with a Moose, and he’s on the run in a world where he stands out like a sore thumb.

What does this world want with him, anyway? If they are going to throw him out, like a flavorless freezer-burned broccoli spear, they could at least give him a good reason. Instead, like the rest of us, he’s going to have to figure out things on his own: like who he can trust and who he can’t.




When they need to reboot the human race, they call on Seth Adamson. It’s a hell of a job, trying to get the planet repopulated, but someone has to do it.

Just to make things challenging, someone is trying to kill him, he’s fallen in love with a Moose, and now he’s on the run in a world where he stands out like a sore thumb. What a long, strange trip it’s going to be.

grrr! not achieving anything by being ‘too busy’ or too lazy!

Okay, as I write this, in about 87 minutes, NaNoWriMo 2007 is set to begin.

I’m going to write 50,000 words (or more!) in 30 days (or less!).

That means I will have very few spare words laying around.

So, if you see me around here less, or if I seem terse or uncommunicative, it’s a good thing because it means I’m not procrastinating or goofing off when I should be writing.

My friends know how to reach me. Send me an email from time to time and ask me how it’s going. If you prod me just a little, you may even get samples to read.

...things I have done for myself. I wrote and learned so quickly. DO THIS! DROP EVERYTHING IN NOVEMBER AND DO THIS! I think you’ll find it is worth the pain.

I do NANOWRIMO every year and I’m just as geared up for this one as all the others, so figured I’ll just mark it off and make room for other goals!

it didn’t happen. work’s a big barrier, and moving and arrgh! it just didn’t happen. maybe july? julnowrimo?
i need to do something to prepare/practice before november comes around again. and i’ve been feeling the need for a creative outlet lately. work must be getting to me.

considering a similar endeavor for may – 30 000 words.
sort of a practise nanowrimo, since i failed so miserably last year.

i tried, but quit at 19 300 words because i knew i wouldn’t be able to finish in 8 days.
i’m disappointed, but of course will try again next year. and possibly maynowrimo?

For this year I’ve almost completed my outline but I need another character sketch before I’m ready for November. I’m looking forward to this year’s NaNo because I think I might actually finish the novel in 50,000 words instead of 100,000. I might also finish the novel :l: I know that sounds contradictory but I’m long-winded when I write fiction. I’m certain I’ll get 50,000 words. Not so certain the story will be finished in that amount of words.