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NaNo Day 3…Ready? Set? Go!!!

J.I. Soucie

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Sitting here at the dining room table munching on Back to Nature’s Multi-Seed Gluten Free Rice Thin Crackers and drinking milk thistle and dandelion tea. Crackers for dinner? Yup. That’s right! My sinuses are draining and my belly is highly upset!  Seems to be the course since the weather’s been dry. 

So not feeling so energetic for tonight’s writing spree but I will try to make it anyway. I’m just happy I was able to punch out a few hundred words this morning before church. Pays to get up earlier than normal I guess.

Over 4200 words recorded on the NaNo site so far. Still need to update it from this morning’s writing session. Can’t update it much more if I don’t get crackin’.  Time to join the other NaNoWriMos who have probably already written if not exceeded their word count. I’m such a slacker. lol. Okay not that bad, but will be if I don’t get going.

Best of luck everyone!

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Day 2 In The Books!

J.I. Soucie

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Well, it is midnight now and so I must stop writing…for a few hours at least. lol.

Wrote over 2170 words today. I am a bit ahead which surprises me. I hate to stop now since I am on a roll, but I have church in the morning. Thankfully, the clocks will set back and hour and I get one more hour of sleep!! Well, I hope to anyway. Will a four year old and two dogs, guess we’ll see about that one.

Congrats everyone who made their word count for day 2! If you haven’t quite gotten there, don’t be discouraged and don’t be hard on yourself. Pace your self  and try not to stress out. You’ll get there.

Good night all!

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NaNo Day 1 Word Count – Accomplished!

J.I. Soucie

Ahhh… Here we are coming to a close on Day 1 of NaNo. Okay, so there is like 27 minutes left, but I am stopping for the night. I surprised myself by surpassing the daily word count and reaching 2,060 words today. I would still be writing if I didn’t have to go to bed. Have company coming tomorrow so I must get some sleep. 

Good luck to those of you who are still plugging away. Congrats to those of you who have reached or exceeded today’s word count! 

Good night all and see you back tomorrow!

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It’s TIIIME!! NaNo is here!

J.I. Soucie

Well today is the day. November 1st. I am feeling okay right now, some pain but tolerable thanks to Aleve.  So I best get typing and see how far I can get today. 

Super excited about my story!

So where are you when you are working on your story for NaNo? Are you at coffee shop with other NaNoWriMos? Are you sitting at home, working in solitude? Are you listening to music or drinking for favorite beverage to help you along? 

For me, I’m sitting in my office, while my daughter is at school, drinking chamomile tea, listening to 50s Rock N Roll on Pandora. Why 50s? Because that is where the bulk of my story is set. Certainly helps set the mood. 

I can’t write a long post write now, but perhaps I’ll be back later.

God bless in your writing endevors!

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New NaNo Story

J.I. Soucie

Well, I have started work on a new story for NaNo. It will be fantasy. I am runny far behind on being ready for NaNo to start, but that’s okay. I can still work on some development as I go.

Still need to come up with a title and some character names, but the final decisions will come later. Right now I may just throw some names in there as fillers.

I have the basic story idea about done. Then it will be developing the characters I am seeing carry out various actions to make this story work. Man, I am having dialogue coming to me and my story crying to be written. Oh, how am I going to be able to wait until Nov 1st to begin writing? It’s so hard!!!!

How are you fellow NaNoWriMos coming along with your story? Are you ready for the month long event? Do you plan on staying home and writing or getting out with other writers in your area? I haven’t fully decided what I am going to do. Will have to see if there are any meetings close to me.

Well, I know this isn’t much of an update this time. Hopefully, I’ll have more to say later. Best of luck and happy writing!

Janis

 

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Sci Fi Research On Hold, New Ideas

J.I. Soucie

My Sci Fi research is on hold. I’m not sure for how long. I am taking a writing course through Winghill Writing School and they say not to start writing in a genre you know nothing about. They say to write what you love to read about and for me, I love to read fantasy and historical fiction. So, I think that is the way I will go for now for writing for NaNo, but that is not to say I will never try my hand at Sci Fi. Oh, no. I love to watch it, but I need to spend some time researching the genre and reading Sci Fi to get a good feel for it. I just didn’t feel I could come up with a good Sci Fi story in just a couple of weeks of NaNo starting. It would be a forced story and not a good one.

So what am I working on for the November NaNo this year? That is a good question. I have had some ideas for nonfiction pieces I’ve been wanting to write and have written a rough draft several years ago, but have not published the book because it didn’t seem to work. I have been through the health trials of PTSD, gluten intolerance that when undiagnosed for so many years I developed allergies (food and environmental  and asthma. The thing is I have so MUCH information due to journal entries I get so overwhelmed and writing strictly nonfiction can bring back some of the emotions with those situations.

So my question to all the readers of nonfiction out there: Would you prefer a strictly nonfiction book on someone’s life experiences  or would you enjoy a fiction story that is “based on true life experiences”?

I feel personally that writing my experiences in a fictional setting would be easier emotionally for me, but what I really want to write is what my readers prefer to read.

I pray I get a LOT of response to this blog post. I really do want to know what readers prefer regarding this issue.

Thank you so much for you time.

Have a wonderful, blessed day!

Janis

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So Many Ideas

J.I. Soucie

Okay, so my mind is going totally crazy with all sorts of ideas. I have two books I started last year. One was with Camp NaNo and the other was with the regular NaNoWriMo. So I could work on those…but then my mind is like, you have been through some things that could help others like PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, being highly sensitive to certain things, gluten intolerance…why not write those first since more people would benefit? Then, there are these ideas for creating a magazine or two, problem with that is getting contributors who will work for free at the start. Ugh!!! I desire to write, but why can’t I decide what to write about? Can’t figure out why this decision is so hard!

Has anyone else run into this same problem? Maybe it’s just something someone with the “idealist” personality goes through such as me. I am an INFP.

So darned hard to focus on one thing. But I think I will work on the book about PTSD since I most have that written, just need to make some changes and I’ll be done with the first draft.

After that will be the book on gluten intolerance, which I have mostly written as well and just need to make a few changes on that will have another rough draft.

Wow! Guess I was closer to having two more books done and didn’t even realize it. I think after those two books are done I can make another decision on what to write. I will keep everyone updated on my progress. Best of luck to everyone!

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Updates On NaNo Book

J.I. Soucie

I had not realized how long it has been since I have written a blog post about my writing. Where have I been? lol Well I am back, having cleared off my writing desk, and with everyone else in the house asleep, I am here to let everyone know what I have been up to. I have been writing in a small book all of the projects I am looking forward to working on, but the most pressing is the book that I wrote for NaNo this year. I have a couple of titles for this book “My Christian Journey” and “A Forever Friend” and I am not sure which title I like the best. The book still has to undergo it’s first major edit and then maybe another edit or two, but I am excited to be working on this book and can’t wait to see it in its final stages. Here is a picture of the book.

A Forever Friend
So this is the manuscript I have to edit and looking through it tonight, I have realized that this book is not going the way I had hoped and that a MAJOR part of it may be dumped in the trash. I want this book to be a testimony of faith to others for all that God has done for me but it is not turning out that way. So now I am back to the drawing board and nead to learn some basics on how to write a good faith based testimonial before I can move on. I’m nervous about all these changes and just hope I can make this new book meet the standards of at least 50,000 so I can have it printed by CreateSpace for free thanks for having won this years NaNo I can do that. Oh so many things to think about and research. I may start on that tonight and then get to bed. Take care all and I wish the best for you all, especially those of who NaNoers who are also in the field of editing. God bless.
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6th Day of National Novel Writers Month

J.I. Soucie

Here we are on the 6th day of NaNoWriMo! How is everyone doing so far? I managed to kick out over 3000 words today so I have a total of just over 12,000 words. Not too shabby for having missed writing yesterday so I had to work hard to catch up today. Tomorrow I hope to have some time to write but we shall. I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning and then it’s all up to if my daughter will let me have my iPad. We bought her the LeapFrog Tablet and she loves it. Problem is the batteries are dead in it already and she’s already started asking for my iPad again. Ugh! Can’t really blame her I guess.

Well, it is getting late and I must go and prepare a few things for my appointment for tomorrow. Good night everyone. Sleep tight and sweet dreams! May the writing must warmly embrace you in the morning.

God bless!