Friday, October 28, 2011

NaNoWriMo Countdown

NaNoWriMo is 3 short days away!

It begins Tuesday, 01 November 2011.

Hang on tight! This ride is about to get interesting--far more interesting than it has been already.



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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

NaNoWriMo Book: A writing resource

Check out this book. It's to help with NaNoWriMo:

http://www.amazon.com/Write-Book-Essential-NaNoWriMo-ebook/dp/B005VHLCD6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1319566305&sr=1-2

Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 
My writing fiction & NaNoWriMo blog: If you are new to this blog or NaNoWriMo
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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If you are new to this blog or NaNoWriMo

If you are new to this blog and/or to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month of November), make sure to check out previous blog posts of this blog (particularly in September and November), along with NaNo's site:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/dashboard

Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 

My writing fiction & NaNoWriMo blog: NaNoWriMo Wisdom: Who you are as a writer
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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NaNoWriMo Wisdom: Who you are as a writer



NaNo is the time to discover not only how well you can write under pressure, but who you are as a person.

And if you can't write well under pressure, through NaNoWriMo, you experiment and figure out how to improve the skill. After all, writing novels to publish are full of deadlines which must be met. NaNo prepares you for them.

Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 
My writing fiction & NaNoWriMo blog: NaNoWriMo Resources
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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NaNoWriMo Resources

Check out these links:

(When I have the time, I will put the original links here. For now, I just wanted to make sure you had these resources.)


https://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=my#search/nanowrimo/3 (look at past blog post of this blog. Excellent resource!***)

https://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=my#search/nanowrimo/4 (look at past blog post of this blog. Excellent resource!***)

https://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=my#search/nanowrimo/8 (interesting resource/photo/example in here)



Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 

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NaNoWriMo Countdown: Where is Stacy Duplease's novel and where can I track her progress?

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month of November) starts in 6 days!

This is where you can find my NaNoWriMo novel and the progress of "The Jamestown Passage":

http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/hisfiction/novels/jamestown-passage

Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 
My historical fiction blog & latest book information: Where to find my upcoming books
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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WWWWW, an H, and a WI Questions (NaNoWriMo Hints and Novel Writing Hints)

Whether you have your book planned or not, it is good to ask questions about your novel. Ask who, what, where, when, why, how and what-if questions about everything you can think of and write them down on the page. I actually recommend doing this weekly so you can see how your book is coming, where it went, and where it is headed.

Some questions might appear to be the same. But, answer them again anyway, even if it is the same answer. It can stir something up in you and give you another idea or cement the one you already have.

Here are some sample questions:
~ Who is in the novel?
~ What is the novel about?
~ What is the theme of the novel?
~ What is the conflict in the novel?
~ What is the motivation of the hero?
~ What happened?
~ What do you smell in the novel? See? Taste? Feel/touch? Hear? 
~ Where does the novel take place? 
~ When does the novel take place?
~ Why is this story being told (novel being written)?
~ Why is there conflict in the novel?
~ Why does the hero do what they do?
~ Why did the novel start the way it did?
~ Why did the novel end the way it did? 
~ Why did it happen? 
~ How did the story happen?
~ How are the characters growing in the novel?
~ How did the novel begin?
~ How did the novel end? 
~ What-if something different happened in the story?
~ What-if there was more to this story?
~ What-if there was less to this story?
~ What if the story started in another scene?
~ What-if the story ended in a different way? 
~ Write any more questions you can think of here. (I recommend cutting and pasting these questions into a new document and then add some of your own.)

Those are very basic questions. But, here is a more in-depth twist. Ask each of those questions about:
~ Each of the three acts of your book
~ Each chapter
~ Each scene
~ The hero/heroine
~ Each character 
~ Each page
~ Each paragraph

Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 
My historical fiction blog & latest book information: Where to find my upcoming books
My writing fiction & NaNoWriMo blog: NaNoWriMo: How can it be only 7 days away?
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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Monday, October 24, 2011

NaNoWriMo: How can it be only 7 days away?



NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, begins on Tuesday, 01 November 2011. That's seven days from today, as you well know.

I cannot believe it is coming up so quickly. I do not know about you. 

That means I have 44,100 words to write of my, "A Complicated Christmas" novel between now and then. This makes me want to chew on my nails--and I never do any such thing. There are too many germs there (and I am hardly a germ a-phobe) and it is bad for one's teeth.

I will keep you updated about my progress at my historical fiction blog listed below. It's the top link. 

Now, I am nervous about NaNo. How about you? 

I love the challenge, though! 


Stacy Duplease
Inspirational Historical Romance Author
A timeless kind of love... 
My historical fiction blog & latest book information: Where to find my upcoming books
Journaling Chronicle: Weekend journaling
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NaNoWriMo Countdown


NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, begins in s-seven days! (Chewing on finger nails.)
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