NaNoWriMo 2010

As if I don't have enough to do...I have decided to joint the frenzy and attempt a novel this month. All I know about my story so far is that it is another "Trilogy Cottages Mystery." This time, set in Sebastopol, probably on Florence Avenue. That's it. That's all I've got. I tried thinking about a plot as I got in bed last night and all I did was fall asleep. I don't even have a title yet. I'm  happy to take ideas....but it has to be three words like my first novel....Beadboard, Sea Glass and Driftwood.  OK, that's more than three, but you get the idea, right?

Wish me luck!

Perhaps this house...

NaNo Catch Up

I am slowly catching up with the NaNoWriMo writing. Still way behind, but making some progress. With luck, I can take a few hours this weekend and really jam on that word count. I'm making great progress on setting the scene and describing characters. Plot? There's supposed to be a plot? Oh yeah..I'll work on that! This is my NaNo picture I'm using...it's from when I was about 17...the last time I thought I'd be a writer. When I reach 50,000 words, I will update it.

Hopefully, I won't look much older! I just got a new haircut and without my mom realizing I had a new style, she said, "You look younger with your hair down." Yes! Younger is a good thing! Apparently bangs take a couple years off you!

Ready...set...go!

Even though I didn't start writing at midnight like all the other NaNoWriMo fanatics, I do have an extra hour of sleep under my belt, so hopefully I am well-rested and the quality of the writing will be stellar.

Allie had a good idea this morning – wear our glow-stick necklaces (from trick-or-treating last night) on top of our heads and we will be "Queens of Novel Writing." I think I am understanding more why this starts on November 1 – an extra hour in the month to write and a sugar buzz from all the candy on October 31!

Write-on!

Margaret

National Novel Writing Month (November!!!)

I know, I know...as if I have nothing better to do than write a novel in November. Not even an advance, just the honor of being declared a "winner" if I write 50,000 words by the end of the month! Luckily they don't read the books, just count the words, so spelling can be atrocious and typos may abound.

Hey, if you want to be a character in my book, give me a name you'd like to be and maybe what kind of person you want to be (if you don't want me lifting all your real life qualities and circumstances, that is!). And of course, I may still take a few liberties with your character...hee hee heee.

I'm not sure if I should tell you much about the story. It's not one of those "adult" books, rest assured. (You may wind up in one of those anyway, but I'm not gonna tell you until it's published...hee hee hee.)

It's really a blueprint for what I'd like to do when DH and I are "retired" that is, what kind of work we'd like to do before we are too old and tired to do much of anything.

The working title is Beadboard, Sea Glass and Driftwood and it's the first in the Trilogy Cottages Mystery Series, and the protagonist is Abigail Steele. You, my friends and family, may find her eerily familiar...

There, that's enough to keep you guessing for now....hee hee hee.

Margaret