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Delayed NaNoWriMo followup

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Well, Crap.

Had this whole thing planned out to finish #NaNoWriMo on my novel (of which I have most of 2 chapters and working on the third).

Then I got sick the second week of November. That lingered. For another two weeks.

Lo and behold, Thanksgiving was upon us with a trip to Florida and…working.

Yep, worked on Thanksgiving day. *thunks head on table*

Then I planned to write this follow-up beginning of December with talks of cross-blogging with Rhys Ford but then Erik’s surgery happened (see back posts on her blog) and she helped out with them. The cross-blogging didn’t happen, but we’ll see if we can get it going later…And work continued to explode when I got home.

That’s what happens when you work full-time while trying to start this thing called writing…for the last year. I hadn’t breathed until right before Christmas, then Christmas become its own Susan Mac Nicol drama coordinating extended families and friends across the month among my household (3 adults, two teenagers with a godson off to his Dad, and a step-daughter, who’s about to turn 18…in a pear tree). Did I mention that I live a Christmas song?

So. I didn’t finish NaNoWriMo this year. I was really disappointed. I have three active WIPs and none of them are finished. I have notes for a couple more and I’m itching to finish my short story so I can say I’ve finished something.  Several publishers have opened for submissions, and I intend to submit it somewhere because self-publishing is not happening until I get my domain set up.

Oh, I have one if those too. I intend to link up my blog here to it as well. Just haven’t gotten there yet.  There’s a reason I stopped web designing 15 years ago…

Crap. Have to learn the new stuff now long enough to get the domain hosted and linked. Yay me…

I can almost turn this into a song. 🙂

Sigh. And I’m writing this on my phone because I’m too lazy to get on a computer.

And yes…welcome to my stream of conscious.

Back to NaNo…

I wish I could have participated more with it. I got a good start but respiratory issue requiring two doctors visits and a change of medication will do that to you. Going out of town, working, AND partially sick didn’t help either. Hopefully, I’ll have things planned better next year.

Thank you for those that encouraged me to write especially the Atlanta NaNo chat room.  Good luck and you’ll see me back again next year. Hopefully, with something published by then.

Be on the look out for a review on the first day of the new year. My New Year’s resolution will be writing more.

I plan to write more on this blog too. We’ll see how that goes. 🙂

20140417 Update: I, apparently, need an editor for my own posts too.  Someone should poke me if they see proofreading mistakes on my posts. *grin*

E

Caring for Eric Arvin…

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See the link to Rhys Ford’s post about Eric Arvin.  Donate if you can.  Medical bills are never fun.

E

Caring for Eric Arvin….

News and NaNoWriMo

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NYC Pigeons

Pigeons in Central Park, NYC

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, I think I will have to not finish this year’s #NaNoWriMo as I have had cascading failures most of the month.  Between work, being sick for better part of 2 weeks, and more work; I’m not going to complete my story. 🙁

Makes me sad.  

I had such high hopes.  Well, I will be hosted on another author’s blog, Tiramisu and she here, sometime next month and will talk about trials and tribulations for a first-time NaNoWriMo writer.  Dates and topics to be confirmed once I confirm with the author.  Keep your eyes pealed and I will post when it will happen.

On that note, there has not been a lot of comments except for links to other blogs.  I will have to rerun the contest at a later date.  Maybe when I get Space Love finished.  🙂  Thanks for those that have followed and I hope you keep following.  I plan to post a free writing sometime soon as soon as I get my act together.  Full time employment and writing are not best friends.

And for the news portions of this post, I have purchased my own domain: eloreenmoon.com.  Now, the technical fun of linking everything and getting the domain hosted.  Luckily, I have a domain host.  I just need to get it setup there.  Soon, hopefully before the end of the year, I will have this blog attached to blog. eloreenmoon.com.  Be on the lookout for announcements.

I thought a picture would be good today.  The picture is from a business trip in June 2013 to New York City, NY.

Eloreen

FiveOnFriday – NaNoWriMo – Day 8

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What a busy week.  I’m multitasking with this so it will be amazingly short. 🙂

  1.  Review on blog tour for In Liam’s Wake.  Complete.  Have more interest with other authors wanting to blog hop.  Probably will host some starting in December/January.  More to come.
  2.  On-the-fly work presentation. Complete.
  3.  Another random presentation semi work-related.  Complete. (Did I mention I wish presentations counted to #NaNoWriMo?)
  4. NaNoWriMo story writing.  Not so much.  With work, writing has taken a back seat this week.  The hazards of working full-time. Luckily, I had a large word count in the beginning.  I love it when I’m proactive about something.
  5. And last but not least, more work tomorrow.  I see a theme here… *sigh* Somewhere in there, I will get to write again.

In the meantime, thank you for all of the followers on twitter.  Please feel free to follow on other social networks like Facebook, Goggle+, and Tumblr.  I just setup a Pinterest page last week, so check it out.  Should be pinterest.com/eloreenm. I’ll update links to them from my About page as I remember.

Have faith that your writing for NaNoWriMo will be completed, and most of all: HAVE FUN!

E

 

NaNoWriMo Day 4

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I did a few more words since Friday, but not a lot.  Weekends are hard with family and other things having to do then.  Add to that my iPad is still doing odd things, and I’m getting slightly overwhelmed.  I have work stuff to do. I have reviews to do.  And all of this in the next couple of days. *bangs head on desk*

 

So, what does any good aspiring author do?  Procrastinate.  :0

 

NaNoWriMo 2013

 

Yeah, I’m doomed.  Now, to beat my iPad into submission so maybe I can write some more…

NaNoWriMo Day 1 – Friday List

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1.  If you haven’t already, submit a contact form or comment to my NaNoWriMo Musings and a Contest! post and win a copy of my  NaNoWriMo novel when published and a $10 Gift Card.  You can also just go to my blog and it’s pinned to the top.

2. Almost 8000 words for Space Love, my m/m genre Science Fiction Romance. Yay!  Here is hoping for many more words to come.

3. #NaNoWriMo profile filled out and running, mostly.  Still learning the lay of the land.

4. Remind myself to finish friday lists…on Friday. 🙂

5. Look for review of In Liam’s Wake: The Makeshift Soldier by Ashlyn Forge on 11/5/13 here on my blog.  5 Stars.

Preparations for #NaNoWriMo

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1. Signed up for NaNoWriMo.org. Check.

2. Finish filing out profile. Working

3. Kick my iPad’s butt. Check. Check. *bang head on desk*

4. Prepare for Review for a recent novel I read. Check.

5. Write said Review. Working.

6. Consider date and content for being a guest on another’s author’s blog. Working (date now content later).

7. Wait on instructions for blog tour starting next week. Check.

8. Itching to write. Definitively Check.

9. Happy that I’m doing this. Absolutely Check.

10. Scared to death that I won’t finish anything. Double check.

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The Friday List…Go

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Hum, some of my friends are doing lists once a week to show the’ve done, what they are doing, and/or plan to do. That’s not a bad idea…so, here is my attempt a a list and we’ll see if I can keep it up.

1. Finished beta reading for a return author.  Those are always good.   I’ve been doing beta reading for awhile now.  I still enjoy seeing new authors with new material and published authors that continue a series.  Did I mention I like a series?  I certainly plan to start a series or two with my books.  We’ll see where they go.

2. Fought with the new gmail categorization and filters so I can get messages from Goodreads on my phone.  Had a couple of review requests so I got back in touch with those.  Oops!  Gotta love technology. 🙂

3. Spend the next week reading those books for reviews (twist my arm) and then posting them everywhere.  You’ll see them here when I post to my blog.  In addition to the review, I will be hosting the book’s blog tour for a day!  More information to come when I get it.

4. So, where is my writing in all of this? Glad you asked.  I’m going to attempt to start preparing for the #NaNoWriMO event next month and have committed to writing 50,000 words.  Holy crap! What have I done! *deep breaths* Ok, no panicking.  This will work.  Now, maybe I will get my creative juices going.  See my previous post for a contest I’ve started relating to this.

5. I plan to do something on November 9th as that is my anniversary date for starting to write these things.  Let me know if you have any ideas I could do on that day.  This is a discussion people. Let’s have some dialog going.  Let’s have some fun with this!

Eloreen

 

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NaNoWriMo Musings and a Contest!

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Sat down to home-made chili, a Mike’s hard lemonade (strawberry), and will finish beta reading a story tonight.  I hope.

I’ve noodled a couple of my stories off and on over the last month or so in between working full-time.  And now I start to see #nanowrimo preparation starting for some of my G+ friends.  Holy crap! When did November get here?

It’s a bittersweet time for me as I started writing almost a year ago.  So I wondered, what should I do to launch a year of writing?  On November 9th, 2012, I started writing a single story that had clamored in my head previously, and with the encouragement of other authors.  I now have that same story with several chapters, two short stories that are almost complete, and a few more that I have started notes on.  I would like to finish a novel, or several shorter stories, as a salute to persevering despite a layoff, teenagers, a new job, and getting older.  We will not discuss my age.  Consider me 29. 🙂

I would like to celebrate my year of writing by giving away a copy of the story, or stories, I finish next month and when it publishes (not if, when) and a $10 gift card to your favorite online eBook store (All Romance eBooks, Totally Bound [formerly Total-E-Bound], Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Bookstrand) to buy your next book.  I plan to update my progress on here Facebook, Google+, and Twitter.  I like talking to new people and hopefully, this will get me off the ground and running to finally get off my duff and get published.  Whether it will be with a publishing house, or I publish on my own, I don’t know.  But, that is the fun as I now have a goal.  My writings, so far, are in MM science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal romance genres.  Others might be in menage, contemporary and probably will expand to GBLT.  The sky is the limit.  So, if you like those, leave a comment here and at the end of November, I will randomly pick with an online random number generator.  Make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you for your $10 GC and send you the final version of the story that I finish in November.  Be aware that my story may be awhile since I’m sure there will be several rounds of edits to finish, random distractions, and finding a way to publish it.  You have my permission to repost this contest and/or otherwise spread across the internet.  The more the merrier.  Please make sure to link to this specific post so that all comments can be counted.  I’m only going to count the ones made here.  🙂

Thank you for “listening” to me ramble and come help me celebrate.  Teasers to follow!

Eloreen

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The capacity to love is infinite.  But love’s capacity for others can be greater than one.  Love one another in any form you want.

NOH8

Eloreen