NaNoWriMon

When I first heard about this I thought my friend was speaking Pig-Latin or something similar. Then she explained that it means:

Na (Naitional) No (Novel) Wri (Writing) Mon (Month).

Which is actually the month of November. I only found out about it about half way through November but decided to sign up anyway. I aimed for 20, 000 words ( You're meant to write 50,000 for the whole month) but so far have written about 1000 in total. I'm very disappointed in myself, I know I had a lot going on this month besides this challenge and I did not plan ahead or have my plot planned out before I started but i would have liked to have at least gotten in a few regular writing days in. I am not giving up though. I know i can do it. I realised that earlier this year I was writing in my journal every morning and wrote an average of 850. I did that for three months so that is over 75, 000 words! So starting now I am going to write a minimum of 800 words a day of my novel for three months :-D Then I will start again and gradularly increase my word count every week for the next three months. By the time I get to November again I stood have at least two of my stories written and I will be very prepared to write 1,667 words per day during the next NaNoWrit Mon.
I still haven't given up this year, I've got all of today left to write and so that's what I'm going to do.

Wish me luck!!

Too many Questions

Taking the time to write daily seems so hard sometimes. I've fallen out of the habit of writing every morning in my journal which I think has not been very helpful. I still am afraid to really put pen to paper and write any of my stories. I have written an old scene or too when the mood has struck me. But nothing really serious, nothing that would make sense to anyone reading it who didn't already know some of the story. With all my projects I want to do now I feel I might be spreading myself to thin. How do I reach a balance? And how can I make myself write???

Too many things to do....

.. and that's my reason for not posting here. Of course another reason is I really don't have anyone reading what I am writing. I think most people that I know don't realise that I wanted to post here on a regular basis, so I don't have any support.

Okay the real reason i have not been posting is my computer has not been working this past month. Although I did have some internet access it wasn't much and i was too busy trying to work around not having my art programs, print, graphics tablet etc. I had clients waiting for commissions so it was just a little stressful 0_O

Well if only I had someone keeping track on if, when, and what I am posting here. Guess i should ask some of my friends to check up on me ;-P

later!

~Maddy ^^

Finally a Post

Well now this blog has been sitting here far to long with nothing new posted. I have of course been doing my writing, just not here in cyberspace. I've been so busy with other things that I have not even bothered to look at any of my blogs. I have been spending quite abit of my time on my art as well as my writing.
I now have two accounts at Deviant Art: http://www.tinka-rothchild.deviantart.com & http://www.star-angel-art.deviantart.com The site supports writers as well as illustrators so I will be posting some of my stories there.

I don't really have anything else I wish to share for today, so I shall post again tomorrow ^^

~Maddy

Free Writing

I've began doing some exercises in Free writing. The teacher in the course I am doing at the moment has as doing a sorts of writing exercises to get us into the habit of writing often and not second guessing ourselves by editing our ideas before they even go anywhere.

Here is a sample of some writing I did:

Well I have just been talking to Peter about Phoebe and Ungol and their interesting match. I can’t pin point the moment that they came to mind as working but it just seems to fit. Interesting I’m not sure where my mind is wandering to now.. I am thinking of Pete resting lying… I’m not sure; he is maybe sitting on our futon. Well actually we have two futons and I always tend to think of the other one as the ‘Asian’ futon because of the pattern it has on it, funny that futon itself is an Asian word. Ouch.. leg getting sore from the way I am sitting.. should have made myself more comfortable before I started to type. *sigh* running out of ideas.. not that that’s possible really… hmm kids are still asleep which is good. Knowing my luck Riven will wake up just as I am wanting to sleep. Which I guess serves me right for staying up too late. Itchy knee. Lots to do tomorrow.. with the kids mostly.



It was fun writing this and really got my ideas flowing so I think I'll try this at the beginning of all my writing sessions.

Don't Dream It... Be It!

Too many people I talk too (mostly family and friends) talk about there ‘ifs, buts, & maybes’; all the things they wish they did or could do. I’ve noticed something that is the same for all of these people:

1. They aren’t doing anything to change their situation

2. They make excuses (ie. blame it on others or on circumsances) why they are not doing anything.

It be honest I am guilty of the same. My biggest excuse has always been to blame my Father for making me feel like an idiot. But truth is we need to rise above what others say about us and work to become what we want one day at a time.

You don’t become an expert in your field of interest over night, it takes hard work and time. That might seem abit tuff but if you are passionate about what you want to do you’ll love the journey it takes you on.