And the world is in shock.  LOL.  We’re all burned out, twitchy and unsure what to do with ourselves.  For some of us, we’re still working on SVEN.  The 70 days of sweat.  I will say this, however, I added up my total word count for Sven and came back with this hot number:

Sven: 65,401

Holy shnikees!  With a little less than 45K on nano, I’ve skyrocketed my Sven count.

My plan for the day:

Get a piece of fiction up since I missed Friday Flash Fiction.  Put up a tasty excerpt I’d promised, and work on Bound Eternally, Book 3 in the Bound series with Changeling.  I’ve also got a review for Bound in Lust!!!  I’ll be putting that up later.  My EDJ (evil day job) kept me at work way too late last night to win nano, but it did give me time to work through my Bound 3 (Bound Eternally) plot issues.

Have a fantastic day, guys!  I’ll be posting more throughout the day.  Happy December 1st.

If you wonder why I’ve been incognito on my updates, here’s why.  I’m in deadline-lock.  From the start of Nano I’ve been working feverishly to get this ONE project done.  When I couldn’t get to the Sven website yesterday or the nano update, I had to press on.  You see, in the past five days I’ve written 7428 words.  Now, that may not be a lot to most, but it’s a heck of a lot for me!  My crit partners are stuck in deadline hell as well, and I haven’t been buggin them as much.

So here’s my update…which I’ll post to Sven and Nano when I get home:

Sven: 20401 words.

Nano: 7428 words.

Not too bad if I do say so myself.

Have a great day all.  I’ll be checking up on my other Sven Slaves later on.

All the best,

Dawn

You know, I was reading my CP’s release, Kate’s Muse yesterday.  I love the idea of your muse coming to life and inspiring you to be the best you can be.  Of course if that includes hot and lusty lovin’ I’m all for it!  Michelle’s story was so fun to read I chuckled through the whole thing.  How often have you tried to browbeat your muse into submission, pouring out word after word until your fingertips bleed.  Okay, maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration.  LOL.  Michelle answers the age-old question:

What happens when your muse has decided he isn’t going to take any more?

At the end I was asking myself…”Where can I get a muse like THAT???”

Have a great weekend all.  Nano and Sven updates tomorrow!

It’s 93.  Yes 93 days but since it’s over the winter holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and 3 King’s Day), it gives a bit of leeway for you to spend time with family.  Or take that much needed vacation.  Alison Kent has reopened her Sven writing challenge.  I’ve signed up to complete 10 wips.  All about 15K or less each.  So barely novella size.  It can be done!  I know it can.  It had better *WEG*  So, Alison, I take your challenge.  93 days and 10 wips.  She also has a *nano option* if you’re doing nanowrimo this year!  It will be done.  It doesn’t begin until the 15 of October! 

So what have YOU been up to lately?

Thank you for the awesome comments on my TT post.  :-) 

Captured Tails-A Kitsune Story is a hot little tale I’m working on.  Right now I’m fleshing it out and have only written 1100 words.  Magical invitations and erotic shapeshifters are among us and Alaya gets to see it first hand. 

That’s it for my Nano update. 

To all, I’m out. 

So the gals and I decided Nanowrimo for May would be a wonderful idea…especially since most of us have deadlines a-plenty.  So we decided to do a national novel writing month for May for the Daughters of Circe.  Here and forever known as the D. o. C.  :D  Anyway, what’s National Novel Writing Month?  Well it’s called Nanowrimo and here’s the link: http://www.nanowrimo.com  Nanorwrimo starts officially in November, but you can host one whenever the need arises. 

So how can Nanowrimo work for your writing group?

13 Ways to Make Nanowrimo work for your writing group! Choose a personal goal.  Not everyone is a 50K in a month writer.  If you can’t do it, don’t stress it.  Figure out an attainable goal, then add 10K words to it.  Is it an intelligent idea to decide to write a 100K novel in a month?  If you’ve never written one, probably not.  but, hey!  It’s all you. Have a speed writing session.  Do you have to get together?  If you live close to each other, sure.  Otherwise, yahoo groups, IM’s and phone conversations work well! Have a plan.  An outline helps a LOT.  At least a road map.  A character profile or two…even if it’s Riddick from Pitch Black, it doesn’t matter, just start with a character!  Commit at least 500 words a day.  If you’ve decided on a 50K novel…that should be closer to 1800 a day.  But let me warn you, you weekend warriors you…catching up on the weekend or “day off” never happens the way you want it to.  So don’t rely on weekend extra time.  I guarantee that’s when your in-laws, cousins, best friends, etc will stop by “just to chat,” work will decide that project that needed to be completed in two months should be done NOW, your best friend will decide May is the perfect month to get married and you JUST HAVE to do everything with her, including buying a dress for the ceremony in two weeks and suddenly the world will come to a screeching halt if you’re not there to bake cookies for some fund raiser.  Trust me, it’s been three days into the month of May and I’ve had ALL of these things happen to me.  ALL of them, except the in-law visit.  *cheeky grin*.  Just the best friends, cousins, and whomever else decided we hadn’t hung out in a while.     Have a day of judgement.  Mwahahahah.  Nothing hurts like having to fess up to a week of laziness.  :-)  Post your wins/failures.  Be supportive and rib each other often.  Be serious about your intentions.  Don’t half-ass it or you’ll feel like a failure and pretend it didn’t matter that much to you.  Inform those who love you that you’ll be “hibernating” for the month.  If you have an office in the flow of traffic, have a NANO signal…a fuzzy red cowboy hat, a set of alien antennae, a bobble-headed taco bell dog statue on your desk.  SOMETHING that lets them know you don’t exist outside the universe you’ve created. Don’t edit!  This isn’t the month to do that.  Just WRITE. Let your story explode across the pages.  If your characters decide to romp across a field…let it HAPPEN. Learn to love the line <insert sex, more emotion, or blah blah, here>.  It pushes you past the rough spots so you can come back later.  Remember to REWARD yourself.  If you work your butt off, non-stop, for a month, you’d better have a light at the end of the tunnel that makes it worth it, or you’ll never do it again! Encourage each other.  I can’t stress how important it is to be encouraging. Invite everyone you know to participate or act as a cheer session.  If you’re going to be insane for a month, why not let everyone know about it?  Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)