CMGeek's NaNoWriMo

Location location

2011-11-09T01:31:00.001-09:00

So I've decided a location for my story finally. I had a productive hour now I must sleep. I have a lot to catch up on though. Need to do atleast 3000 words a day I'm order to finish on time in the next 22 days.

Aaahhhhh lol

Possessed mouth

2011-11-02T23:13:00.001-08:00

Well more like just an abscessed tooth. Oh so much freaking fun. NOT! so anyways no writing today. And if the dentist has his way maybe not tomorrow either. Just depends on what all has to be done. I'm just going to have to buckle down later this month. Much Love - CMGeek

Crazy Lady Typing

2011-11-02T00:26:00.000-08:00

First off last year was a flop. Huge... BIG flopporoonie. So what do I do... commit to do it again this year. I have idea, making it work will be the key. First day was a no go for my word goal but second day here's hoping.

Life in general will not cooperate with this idea of writing 50k words in a month but determination is my middle name. (Well not really but damn we'll just say it is!)

My Characters: Jordan Brandon and Raine McMurphy have a lot in store. Hopefully they survive, we'll see.

Lots of love from my insane little corner of the world, where I bus four children around to school, have a fitness schedule five mornings a week, a fitness class three evenings a week, and church three times a week. Yay for full insane schedules and reaching a goal of 50k words! Hehe

Much Love - CMGeek

Another Year!

2010-11-03T11:28:00.000-08:00

And an insane one at that. Since last November I've been in a constant state of go go go go. I'm sick of the go go go go... unfortunately I'm stuck in it for the next little bit.

I am in the middle of a move and decided that I'd join up and do nanowrimo anyways. So here I am. It's the third day in and I'm only now getting around to starting, Hubs was home and so we've been doing home 'improvements' and just been too busy to actually sit down and start the story that has been beating away in my brain.

Almost 300 words later and I've got a good start. Here's too another 49,700 more!

Look Cobwebs

2010-07-13T14:53:00.000-08:00

So I've decided to pick this back up. I haven't finished this story and I need to. I just have to be able to say that it's done.

So this is me dusting out the cobwebs. I'm back!

Pictures of places from my story

2009-11-18T20:54:00.001-09:00

Pictured below are the Frankfort Harbor piers, Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, and the light house at Point Betsie. All places I have actually been and miss dearly.

*These photos are not mine, I found them through google.

Thank you Brittany!!!

2009-11-16T11:00:00.001-09:00

the amazing and wonderful anythingzombie created this lovely little piece of artwork for my story.

Completely gorgeous no?? I LOVE it!

End of Day 4 Word Tally: 14,723

2009-11-05T03:25:00.001-09:00

Oh so tired. Not as much as I wanted, and I’m disappointed about it. But will rectify it in the morning. Its 3:30am and I need to just go to sleep. I keep nodding off.

My hubs returns as well, should be interesting to see how much writing I get done.

End of Day 3 Word Tally: 10,024

2009-11-04T03:27:00.001-09:00

And I’ve officially completed the first chapter. I am thinking that its a good possibility that I will need more than 50,000 words for this story. If I keep up my pace though hopefully I will finish it on time.

Chapter two is started, I’ll work on it tomorrow. Now its time for sleep.

If I had stuck to my 4,000 daily go today’s cut off would have been 12,000 maybe I can make it up tomorrow.

End of Day 2 Word Tally: 6258

2009-11-03T03:03:00.001-09:00

Not the 8000 I wanted, however I’ll take it since its still more than the minimum. I played around to much today.

I’ll get it though. I’m off to bed, its just after 3 am.

Day 2 - An Excerpt

2009-11-02T13:13:00.001-09:00

A lot of people are able to manage their agoraphobia in such a way that they can function quite well amongst society. The lady sitting beside you may have it but you would never know. It all varies dependent on the person and the degree of their disorder. Years of therapy and the testing of different medications proved fruitless for me. I was no closer to a normal life at 15 than I was when I was eight when it all started so I told Nama I had had enough. I decided I wanted to give up all the therapy and medication testing.

No editing has been done to the above writing.

End of Day 1 Word Tally: 3107

2009-11-02T03:45:00.000-09:00

Most of which was written in the late evening early morning hours of day 2 but we won't worry about that.

My goal for today was to get in 4,000 words, it almost happened but I'm too damned tired to worry about that other 893, so I am off to bed. More writing tomorrow, or rather later today.

It's Begun

2009-11-01T16:43:00.001-09:00

Today is the first day of hell.

My kids have decided today that no matter what they will NOT let me write. How nice huh... I should have figured that they would do this. I mean after all I should NEVER commit to anything. Because every single time I do something happens. They either get sick of decide its okay to totally destroy my living room.

Mostly today its been fighting and beating each other up. Oh joy.

I have just over 200 words written on my story. I should have been able to fly through most of the first chapter. I've built the characters its just a matter of getting everything into words. Which since I'm not having to think about anything else really it should be easy. Should being the operative word.

Hopefully tonight after I get them into bed I will be able to hammer out the first 5,000 words. We shall see.

Hmm... an extra hour?

2009-10-31T00:24:00.001-08:00

So Sunday morning at 2am the clocks will turn back an hour.

Does this mean I will receive an extra hour to work on my NaNoWriMo entry??? Seriously?

Will I use this wisely? I will certainly try! For all those who won't get it.

Unfortunately, I do have children, and a hubs who will demand time the week he his home from the 5th to the 11th, and again around Thanksgiving. Oh crap, and don't let me forget New Moon on the 20th!

Okay seriously, who thought November would be a good month???

Ha... I have a title

2009-10-30T16:16:00.001-08:00

It only totally kept me from working on anything else for hours!!!

Cover art for the time being, I may do something different but this is just a simple one.

Since it will be totally in Tabitha's point of view I figured I would have a title that would fit her. Tell a bit about where the story would go. I want to thank LovelyZombie for that idea. So thanks dear!

It's not great but it will fit. I wasn't sure about the by line so just went with my username, if I do anything with the finished (if I finish) story then I will of course use my name, or a different penname. Not sure yet.

I'm really looking forward to Sunday. Although, I'm seriously terrified in one of those seriously excited ways! Kind of like how I feel before a roller coaster or a haunted house. God I'm a nerd.

I seriously hope I have enough thought up for the story to fill 50,000 words.

Sorry about all the errors in word use in the previous blog post... I have fixed them. I shouldn't rush to post without proofreading.... Oh god this next month will kill me... we aren't supposed to edit.

Never mind, I will not think of that mess. Or I'll try anyways lol. See ya Sunday! Or not ;)

Ah the dread

2009-10-29T13:09:00.001-08:00

I have to come up with a title!!! Gah!!! I hate having to come up with titles. Trust me. I LOATHE IT!

Anyways... this is where you come in. Here is what I have as far as a synopsis (of sorts?) :

Tabitha Corigan suffers from a debilitating case of agoraphobia, which keeps her from leaving her apartment. Resigned to what fate or God has handed her, she has accepted and embraced her life of near solitude. That is until an unfortunate event thrusts a new neighbor into her life, and possibly her heart.

Title ideas so far:

Find Faith Within
Embrace a New Tomorrow
Not Set in Stone
Never Settle for Solitude

See I am no good at this... Ideas suggestions would be wonderful. It is a love story, I guess the only way to put it is as a Romance but whatever. I know I don't need to title it now but eventually I will, and I'd love to work on some cover art for it. I know I'm a dork. But whatever, you wouldn't be reading my blog if you didn't expect some sort of idiotic verbal dorkiness. ;)

Gah...

2009-10-11T10:40:00.001-08:00

I've already abandoned my first idea I think. I dunno. I have been running around a few different ideas and all of them are going to drive me insane.

I can't believe I'm actually willing October away so that I can get started on this project. I have a feeling now that I will waffle back and forth between ideas until its time to actually start writing.

The hubs thinks its absolutely hilarious that I can't just decide on an idea. Of course he always gets a kick out of my mental conundrums.

Ideas so far:

~Murder mystery
~Love Story
~Ghost Story
~Weird crazy crack fiction about wall people (Seriously don't ask! It was one of those weird dreams that you wake up from and wonder what you were smoking.)

The list goes on but I'll spare you.

My Genre

2009-10-08T23:29:00.001-08:00

While at dinner tonight I decided what I wanted to write. It’s an idea I’ve toyed with before but now I’ll get to actually get it all out. I hope anyways.

The Genre I’m going to be in I think is Suspense. Or theme whatever. With a bit of romance because well… I like me a little bit of romance.

Now that I have my idea decided upon. All I need to do is a little bit of research. I can’t wait to start writing.

Joined Today

2009-10-08T02:14:00.000-08:00

I have for years known about this little challenge. I could always come up with some form of an excuse for why I shouldn't do it. But this year I am.

I write fan fiction, which means I really just steal characters from a well known book and screw with and manipulate them into what I want them to be. Sad really.

My first fan fiction is over 200,000 words. It's not very original and was my first ever attempt to actually share my writing with people outside of myself. I started it on January 27th and finished it April 7th.

I figure if I can write over 200,000 words in the span of just under four months, then I should have no problem getting 50,000 done in 30 days. The main challenge for me is going to be what I decide to write about.

A novel in a month sounds daunting and scary. But I am determined to try this and see what happens. Join me if you will... should be an interesting ride.

Now I just need to decide what to write about...