NaNoWriMo 2018 Results

I reached the 50,000 word count.

The REAL struggle is - again - FINISHING THE DAMN THING.

More details on what I've got once I get to a completed stage...

Memories of Clermont Comic Con 2018

I went again this year, with hope that I have more titles of interest and able to get more customers. I did speak with a wonderful lady who loves reading, and was happy to get a copy of Strangely Funny and History and Mystery. I had more people ask about NaNoWriMo - I had a sign up promoting it - and a good number of people eager to get bookmarks for free.

Clermont is not a large-scale con like MegaCon or TampaBayCon, but it's pretty active for a city-run event. I'm hoping more people keep showing up for this.

Also, I asked for some help this year watching the table, so my nephew Drew volunteered to backup and help with sales and convention seeing.

The view from my table

Here's Drew as we get the table finished. Good lord, he's grown up since his
last comiccon (seen here at the Tampa Bay one in 2015)

Here's fellow author and convention vendor Bill Hatfield! He's sitting across
the aisle from me.

Here comes the first cosplayers of the day! Steam Punks!

R2! You see him rolling, they faintin...

The professional cosplayer area in the main lobby

One other thing that happened this trip: I got my brother Phil to see just how hilly Clermont is. A long-time cross country runner, even HE is impressed by the terrain.

Good luck, NaNo writers!

CLERMONT COMIC CON NOW

I am at the show!

Tickets are $12 at the door!

JOIN US AND DIE.

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Wait, that's my battlecry from City of Heroes MMO.

JOIN US AND BUY MERCH.

There, that's better.

I will blog a post-convention entry ASAP with pictures. Plus additional good news.

Keep NaNo-ing!!!

Clermont Comic Con November 18 COMING UP

I will be at CLERMONT COMIC CON on Sunday November 18!

Tickets are $12 per person. They'll be cosplayers, games, authors, artists, vendors aplenty!

To all seven people keeping track of this blog, I hope to see you there!

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It's in Clermont.

Clermont, Florida.

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The place with all the hills. Okay?

Sigh. GOOGLE MAP IT.

Just show up, will ya?

P.S. Still Writing NaNo!

NaNoWriMo 2018: Day One

I started today!

It's gonna be about a man who meets a woman during the war!!!

And the cover's gonna be blue!

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Wait, I did this before, didn't I...

Five Year Anniversary with the Wiggle Cat

Five years ago tonight, waiting at an apartment in Bartow for trick-or-treaters that never showed, I instead heard the mewling of a hungry little tuxedo kitten.

So I figured what the heck, it's trick-or-treat, so I go get cat food from the store and come back and put it on a paper plate for the little kitteh to eat... whereupon three other cats jump out of the bushes and eat what's on the plate before she could. Still, I made sure to feed HER since she was the one brave enough to ask me.

And brave she was. And friendly. And wiggly. She'd flop down on the concrete and wiggle back and forth waiting for ear rubs.

I had just lost Tehya to cancer a week before Halloween, and here I was with a kitten just knocking on the door to come in. And she did come into the apartment, cautious but unafraid, and after a few visits I let her in and closed the door, and she had no problem with that.

That was how Ocean the Wiggle Cat came into my life. And then later her kittens.

BUT THAT IS ANOTHER ADVENTURE...

Prepping for NaNoWriMo 2018: Starting This Week

November 1st is this Thursday, Gods help us.

That's when I start up the NaNo madness again.

Getting into the final stages of having an idea - one idea out of several I've been working on for months and years - and sticking to it through the 30 days towards a 50,000 word goal.

Need to avoid the distractions.

Need to have a laptop working.

Need to find a positive emotional state, a spark, a muse, a decent scented candle for aromatherapy, whatever it takes!!!