With hope and luck, this is the year I not only finish the 50,000 word count but I also finish an actual honest-to-Cat novel that's suitable for publishing somewhere.
I'm with the Florida : St. Petersburg regional group again as that's closest, but this time I am paying more attention to events with Tampa especially as I'm trying to get fellow writers from the Wesley Chapel FWA group involved with this year's NaNo.
My biggest problem right now is making up my mind: Should I write a novel / series of stories based on the superhero universe from my Hero Cleanup Protocol e-short; or should I write a thriller noir-type work I've had in mind over the last two years about an unemployed yet honest (which explains the unemployed part) financier getting involved with a shady figure who might provide revenge against the greedier souls who ruined him four years prior? Leave comments if you encourage one or the other. Thanks.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Why Should Writers NaNoWriMo?
Working on my October presentation at the moment:
So why should writers sign up for National Novel Writing Month?
1) It's fun
2) You meet up with fellow writers
3) You get out of the house and head out to writing sit-ins at coffee shops (why Panera Bread doesn't sign on as a sponsor, I'll never know) that let you plug in your laptops
4) You get some writing done
5) You get to tell your Writer's Block to go pound the pavement
6) You get 50,000 words of a rough draft completed between the days of November 1 to November 30
7) You get encouragement to finish that rough draft into a larger novel (50,000 words is at best half the length of an average novel: roughly 150 pages)
8) You get accomplishment webpage badges for making it to the 50,000 word deadline
9) You get to impress that cute soup server at the local Panera Bread
10) For emphasis: IT'S FUN
I think I can get that into a pretty decent PowerPoint presentation, ya think?
oh and 11) You get an opportunity to get your finished work published on Create Space. I think. Will need to check NaNo's tie-in to that.
So why should writers sign up for National Novel Writing Month?
1) It's fun
2) You meet up with fellow writers
3) You get out of the house and head out to writing sit-ins at coffee shops (why Panera Bread doesn't sign on as a sponsor, I'll never know) that let you plug in your laptops
4) You get some writing done
5) You get to tell your Writer's Block to go pound the pavement
6) You get 50,000 words of a rough draft completed between the days of November 1 to November 30
7) You get encouragement to finish that rough draft into a larger novel (50,000 words is at best half the length of an average novel: roughly 150 pages)
8) You get accomplishment webpage badges for making it to the 50,000 word deadline
9) You get to impress that cute soup server at the local Panera Bread
10) For emphasis: IT'S FUN
I think I can get that into a pretty decent PowerPoint presentation, ya think?
oh and 11) You get an opportunity to get your finished work published on Create Space. I think. Will need to check NaNo's tie-in to that.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Dropping An Old Website
I've decided I shan't keep up with an old html-based website any longer.
If anyone's got a link to it, wittylibrarian.com is no longer a functioning site. If you keep getting its pages, it's only because it hasn't been fully decommissioned yet.
Please use the blog here for keeping up with my general off-kilter observations of librarianship, writing, and cats. Thank ye.
If anyone's got a link to it, wittylibrarian.com is no longer a functioning site. If you keep getting its pages, it's only because it hasn't been fully decommissioned yet.
Please use the blog here for keeping up with my general off-kilter observations of librarianship, writing, and cats. Thank ye.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Remind Me Of This From Time To Time
For the Florida Writer's Association gathering in Wesley Chapel this October, I got to have presentation materials for two things completed:
Should have stuff in place by the end of August, have it proof-read by others and fact-checked besides.
- National Novel Writing Month - discussing the when, why, who, how, and what for the following November
- How To Get Published To Smashwords - writing a story, getting cover art, uploading all of it, getting a default ISBN, publishing to ereader formats, self-marketing
Should have stuff in place by the end of August, have it proof-read by others and fact-checked besides.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
For My Birthday, I'd Like a Job Or Writing Contract, But Instead I Get To Test Portals!
This may be my second-best birthday ever (Sorry, Cave Johnson, but my best birthday was a few years back when the Star Trek reboot came out on my birthday, so there)!
Can we get to has combustible lemons?
(it's being released May 8 2012. Enjoy your cake! I will...)
Can we get to has combustible lemons?
(it's being released May 8 2012. Enjoy your cake! I will...)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
April Event! Get Your Calendars Out
Just to let you seven blog readers know, I've been invited to a Local Authors Event at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Wesley Chapel, FL (address is 28152 Paseo Dr also known as the Shops At Wiregrass). The event is Saturday April 14th from 2 pm to 4 pm and involves about 10-12 local self-published or small-press authors hawking our titles. I'll be offering up Last of the Grapefruit Wars in print as well as promoting my estories Welcome to Florida and The Hero Cleanup Protocol.
For some reason, that store's website doesn't have anything scheduled on their calendar (not even Nook training classes, so I think they're just late submitting one), so for linking purposes I have the Event notice from Facebook right here.
Please tell anyone you know in the Tampa Bay area that's within driving distance of Wesley Chapel to please show up and support our local authors! (good turnouts always encourage the stores to keep hosting these events...)
Here's a promotional sign I've made for Welcome to Florida:
How does it look?
For some reason, that store's website doesn't have anything scheduled on their calendar (not even Nook training classes, so I think they're just late submitting one), so for linking purposes I have the Event notice from Facebook right here.
Please tell anyone you know in the Tampa Bay area that's within driving distance of Wesley Chapel to please show up and support our local authors! (good turnouts always encourage the stores to keep hosting these events...)
Here's a promotional sign I've made for Welcome to Florida:
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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