Day15: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

Day 15 of writing challenges has not proven to go well for me. I spent time today (besides doing some household things) working on Valley Sunshine publication, though.

Tonight I was out to the chiropractor and while waiting, and with pleasant classical music playing, I came up with two ideas for PiBoIdMo. I had noticed on the way to my appointment that the town has its lighted decorations up on the poles — snowflakes, angels, doves, stars .. and that was working around in my mind. It turned into a picture book idea. Then I had a second idea, also to do with Christmas. I don’t now if I will actually work those up into picture book manuscripts, but they count for the challenge. Now I have 25 ideas for it in 15 days, which is good since the goal is to come up with at least one a day for the 30 days of November. I like being ahead in that because I certainly am not up to speed for NaNoWriMo!

In NaNoWriMo I am still behind. To make matters worse I am so tired tonight I kept dozing off in my chair so that I only got 541 words written increasing my % by only one point to 39%. I think I could do more but I need sleep! *yawn* Hoping I can do much better tomorrow, although … I almost forgot! Tomorrow is my birthday! but I have nothing planned so I should be able to write, write, write.

Have you seen Christmas decorations up anywhere yet?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 14: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

Today (Sunday) was an interesting day – even a productive one.

I have been heading up Samaritan’s Purse “Operation Christmas Child” in the fellowship where I worship on Sunday’s. It is a small fellowship but we filled almost 60 shoeboxes for children, and I’m delighted to be delivering those to the drop off this week.

Today, also, I wrote as much as I could for my NaNoWriMo challenge. I’m pleased to say that I wrote 2139 words today! Sure needed those, although as I was writing along I stopped and said, “This is boring!” But I kept going, it can be edited out later. It may work in the story with some rewriting, it may have to be cut. Again my characters are very chatty.

I got one idea for PiBoIdMo today. As I was reading a writer’s blog I was inspired with an idea for a picture book. This pushes my ideas in 14 days to 23. Maybe a couple of them will make great picture books, who knows?

Do you have any special giving plans for this Christmas season?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musing! 🙂

Day 12: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

For Friday’s Day 12 of National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo – I wrote 1222 words on my quest to reach the 50,000 mark. That puts my total to 15353, which is 4651 words short of what it should be for today. But, my ‘novel’ is up to 31% completed now with 18 writing days left! 🙂

I have five NaNo writing buddies. Today I discovered that one of my buddies finished her challenge way early, having reached the 50K mark with 29 words to spare! How cool is that! Of my other four buddies, one is ahead of me, and three have less words written than I do, unless they just have not recorded them on the site yet.

My idea for Picture Book Idea Month – PiBoIdMo – came to me late in the evening. It is basically a title with a vague idea of what the book would be about. That counts, though, so now I have 21 ideas.

You can check my NaNoWriMo updates page for the daily count in one place.

If you are doing NaNo this year, how is it coming along for you? If you aren’t taking part in the challenge do you plan to write next November?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 10: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

I could get discouraged if I looked only at how little I have been writing of my word challenge each day this week . But, in general I am writing more than ever before, so that is where I have to focus — write something every day and reach the goal. 🙂

For Day 10 (Wednesday) of NaNoWriMo I wrote 645 words. My characters are leading the story, I’m just writing it out. Interesting how that is happening. I’m about 4000 words behind where I should be, though, not counting Thursday when this update will actually be posted. But I’m not stressing over it, just sayin’.

The ideas were flowing for PiBoIdMo today, though. I got four ideas, one in particular I really like and which was inspired by Remembrance Day and my dad – a WWII Veteran.

It was a very cool and windy day, not a day that encouraged me to leave my warm house, but tonight I went to the Alzheimer’s support group meeting that is held once a month. This is the second one I attended for the time of sharing and listening to others facing that dread disease in someone they love.

I am very thankful to the Lord for His strength and encouragement.

Anything you are facing that is relieved by writing?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 9: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

Another slow NaNo writing day. I got less than 400 words written before midnight today. At midnight the new report is logged into the site and anything written after 12:00 goes onto the next day’s total. Makes sense, right? But if I keep writing and add my totals in, it changes the numbers in my widgets here on my blog, and therefore they don’t line up with the numbers I’ve told you. Usually, I like to add my number of words per page as I go, but if “the Muse” is on a roll, I keep going and add ’em up later.

I’m not proud of my small efforts today but this is all part of it, so even if I should write nothing I will still report here. Hopefully, I will always write something through this challenge.

My widget said I have 24% done, but now it is at 25% because I wrote a little more after midnight. My stats report tells me that at this rate I will finish Dec 10. 🙂 I hope to improve my words per day to finish on time.

Soon after I woke this morning, an idea came to me for PiBoIdMo challenge. I wrote it down and this afternoon I had the idea ”fleshed out’ so that I have a story planned from it. So that’s 13 ideas so far, and also I have added a little here and there to some of the first 12.

It’s been nearly a week of rain, rain, rain, with some families in Nova Scotia having to be evacuated because of serious flooding. Wednesday the rain will stop and the sun will reappear. I’m so busy that I even forgot to get depressed due to lack of sunshine! 🙂

Have you had trouble with too much water, especially along the eastern seaboard?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 8: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

I am falling behind. Today (Monday) I didn’t get much written for NaNoWriMo so I’m not up to where I should be by this time. I did write over 1000 words tonight but that’s not enough yet. I have a lot of catching up to do with Tuesday’s goal in the challenge being a total of 15,000 words. But the fun thing is that my widget says I have completed 24% now.

What’s interesting is that what I wrote tonight is a departure from the main story. My characters are taking me on a detour, and yet it feels as if there is a connection to the heart of the story. It is all still vague in my mind right now but I think it’s going to come together okay somehow. I will just keep writing and see what happens.

The really good news is that this morning I had two ideas for PiBoIdMo. In fact, one of them is built onto the idea I had for Day 2. It seems that now I have a full story roughed out for a picture book. Cool, huh? Well, I think so.

I’m having fun with all this writing.

When you write, do you find that your characters lead you?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂

Day 7: NaNoWriMo & PiBoIdMo

I’m writing this post after midnight so it will show up as Monday, but it’s intended as Sunday’s.

It has not been a day of much creative writing, with other things I was involved in taking priority. Then, too, I had a nap this afternoon, which helped keep me going for the rest of the day, but now I am ready to crash for the night. The time change will mix me up a bit for a few days.

I had to think harder today to pull out an idea for PiBoIdMo, but I got one, bringing my total to 10 ideas by day 7. I’m pleased with that.

NaNoWriMo is a different ‘story’ – forgive the pun. 🙂 I only got slightly over 400 words written, a far cry from the 1667 suggested daily word count and pushing my completion to 22%. But, that’s okay. I just have to make up the deficit somewhere along the way. (Check my NaNoWriMo updates page for actual count.) The funny thing is that yesterday my word count was such that my NaNo stats report told me “At This Rate You Will Finish On November 30”, which is great! But tonight, after I had added my meagre total into the count, it now says “At This Rate You Will Finish On Dec 05.” 🙂 I’ll have to work on that.

As you may have noticed, I also got the PiBoIdMo badge loaded onto my home page.

I enjoy blogging! And I hope you enjoy reading what I have to offer.

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂