#IWSG: #NaNoWriMo2022

It's Insecure Writer's Support Group Day!

For reasons that I will explain shortly, I've turned off "comments" for today's post. 

If you'd like to join this monthly event go HERE.

Thanks to Alex Cavanaugh for hosting this monthly event. And, thanks to the awesome co-hosts for the November 2 posting of the IWSG: Diedre Knight, Douglas Thomas Greening, Nick Wilford, and Diane Burton!

November's optional question is:

November is National Novel Writing Month. Have you ever participated? If not, why not? 

I've never had the time until now. Working full time with over time and attempting to do NaNoWriMo was too much to consider.

But now that I'm retired...I'm doing NaNoWriMo for the first time! 

I did BuNoWriMo once years ago when I wrote my first novel. It was kind of a disaster. Hopefully I'm more prepared this time around. 

Image Courtesy of NaNoWriMo

Wish Me Luck!

Comments disabled so that I can participate in NaNoWriMo 2022!

 

IWSG: Do You NaNo?

It's The Insecure Writer's Support Group Day! On the first Wednesday of every month,  writers share the ups and downs of the writing life and offer support to our comrades-in-arms. To sign up, go HERE. 

Thanks to our Ninja Captain Alex Cavanaugh and this month's support team: Tonja Drecker, Diane Burton, MJ Fifield, and Rebecca Douglass!

And speaking of the IWSG...I submitted a story to the IWSG short story anthology contest. When I read that this year's genre was mystery/crime/thriller with a time-based theme, I wrote a short story called, A Stitch in Crime. My insecurity? I write sweet and cozy mysteries. It's like decaf coffee in a caffeinated world, you know? But I do love the story and am happy with it. And of course, I can't wait to read the anthology when it comes out because I know it's going to be awesome!

This month's optional question is: Win or not, do you usually finish your NaNo project? Have any of them gone on to be published?

I haven't done NaNoWriMo--yet. But I participated in BuNoWriMo. Same thing, different month. I won, but it was touch and go. The result was like a puzzle I had to put together: the border was nice and neat, but the body of the puzzle didn't have a color scheme to go by for easy fitting. LOL. Eventually I published A Guilty Ghost Surprised. Next time I'll know to do a better job on the outline.

What about you?

Did you enter the IWSG short story anthology contest?

Have you done NaNoWriMo? How'd it go?

Friday Funnies: All's Fair in NaNoWriMo

Thank you Debbie Ohi

I've never done NaNoWriMo, but I did BuNoWriMo - 50K during the month of June. My carefully planned outline was too short and I was writing all kinds of crazy stuff to meet my word count. Seriously, I almost wrote a sex scene! Okay, not. But my character was sashaying quite a bit and people noticed!

I know that some of you just finished NaNo.

How crazy did you get?

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Part II of Today's Blog Post

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