I am a firm believer in everyone needing a happy place. We all need a place that we can go to when life & reality get to be too much.
Take some time snd write about your happy place. Use what ever format & style that works best for you. If you can, start a new journal or notebook with this piece. Whenever you feel the need, you can go back to it & the write away the stress, pain, or worry.
Hope everyone is getting off to a great start this year. I know I am!
I have published my first personal project and I am so excited! This is the novel I wrote during National Novel Writing Month.
Check out the first chapter here, on my personal blog.
It is available in paperback for $12 via Createspace.
It is also available for Kindle and Nook.
So, what am I up to now… not resting of course. I am working on publishing the third project from Turtleberry Press, which is my second novel. I am also writing. I feel like I am on a roll and I am going to ride it until the wheels fall off!
My track coach said you don’t slow up until the finish line is behind you.
So I clocked in 53,952 words and finished at 4pm today.
The big thing for me is that I set a goal and I saw it through. I am so motivated right now to keep writing. I am thinking of another goal to set. I mean, I know I can do it now so I should keep at it.
Isn’t that how it works?
I know there is now editing and then doing my own layout work… I am my own worst customer… but let me celebrate this moment right now.
There doesn’t have to be a worldwide movement for you to challenge yourself. You don’t have to write a novel.
Set a goal.
Give yourself a time frame.
Work hard to meet it.
And most of all… remember to surprise yourself!!!
In honor of the end of the month… write first about setting goals… then write about the feeling you get when you reach them.
Happy Writing!
Give yourself some time today. Write for six separate 10 minute sessions. Try not to do them back to back. Put at the very least thirty minutes in between the sessions, and hour or two would be better.
Write about what the holiday season means to you. It can be any big holidays that you celebrate. If you don’t celebrate holidays, write about how other people’s holiday season affects you.
Each session should inform the next, but try and take things in a totally different direction each time. Use your favorite format or however can best allow you express what you need to express.
Happy Writing!
Write in a form you typically do not write in. Step out of your comfort zone. If you write long epic poems, pen your thoughts in a haiku. If you write fiction, write a short memoir piece. If you write non-fiction, exercise your imagination in a short story.
Need a topic: pigs flying
(This topic in honor of the fact that I may actually finish a novella during nanowrimo!)
Happy Writing!
Explain/describe an emotion without using the name of the emotion. For example if you are describing anger, you would find every way you can describe it with out using the words anger or angry.
Happy Writing!
Write your interpretation of one or all of the seven deadly sins.
Happy Writing!
17,274 words…
I am so far behind the power curve.
Does it help that I have about 10,000 words floating around in my head?
If it doesn’t, it should.
Turkey day is going to slow some people down. I need to gear up though.
I can say… this story is getting good!
To those doing this along with me… keep pushing. We are in the home streatch. Get as much done as you can. Get as close to that goal as you can. Momentum and motivation are everything! The sense of accomplishment on December 1st is why I am doing this. I am tired of having half finished stories. I want to see something to the end. Even if it means I have to write 3,000 plus words per day everyday until the end of this month. I will do so until this story gets finished!
Happy Writing!!
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