#Writober Recap

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November Expectations

Writober Recap This Writober was a huge success. Thank you everyone who participated, linking up their images, poems, and stories. Your work was intriguing, thought provoking, entertaining, and fun. And you kept me inspired to keep working every day. Congratulations to Circe of Baldacchino di Perla, ladyleemanila, Carol anne at Therapy Bits, and A.M. Moscoso at My Enduring Bones for the scary…

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day 2 - Ringing in the ears

Zloy sat down tiredly on the ground with an extremely tired and heavy sigh. Pulling off the gloves from his hands, he only felt an insane fatigue on himself, as if he were Antlant, who holds the sky every second throughout his entire life. A terrible and disgusting ringing in the ears settled in his head. And the closer he was to death, the louder this ringing in the ears became. He was always wondering, and if he misses the situation, then.. what? Will he be a zombie with this disgusting sound in his head for the rest of his life?

Life? Hah. If only Xp had his own life. Well, more precisely, like...

He was half-dead with the ability to break or destroy everything he touched. About like Midas, who could turn anything into gold with his touch. However, the Zloy had his own special kind of such "ability". Any living thing he touched was killed a moment later. Starting with plants and ending with enemies. Convenient and dangerous at the same time.

Now the Zloy, with greenish-pale skin and deep bruises under his eyes, literally touched the grass. He ran his palm over the greenish summer grass, which after his touch became yellow, withered and completely lifeless. His skin became a flesh-colored, living tint, the bruises dissolved, as if after a good rest, and his eyes stopped looking so glassy. Fortunately, the ringing in his ears also went away along with the remnants of death from his veins. Of course, it was not possible to completely remove it from his body.

"You can remain a living dead person." - Pix, who helped him become "Schrödinger's Zloy", once told him. - "However. "Everything you touch directly will become like you."

- Zloy. - Pix's voice came from behind the guy's shoulder, and a warm touch to his shoulder made Xp turn around and see a necromancer on a minimum and just a close person. If Zloy could see himself from the outside, he would know that a fleeting warm smile appeared on his lips. - It's time for us to go.

- Hey, are you there for much longer?! - Ly voice was also heard from behind Pix, who looked like a dissatisfied fox and crossed her arms over her chest, trying to show all her dissatisfaction. Only her tail, which happily wagged from side to side, betrayed her good mood.

- Yes, yes. Let's go. - Zloy giggled, pulling gloves on his hands and clinging to Pix's hand to get up in one jerk. How nice it was not to feel that nasty ringing in my ears and to feel alive, even if only for a short moment.

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We did it! We survived National Novel Writing Month. It’s time to put away that draft, but not time to give up the daily practice. So what’s next?

For me, it means continuing this momentum into editing. This month, I’m going to dive back into last year’s NaNoWriMo draft and work through revisions to a finished second draft.

This month I will continue my daily poems, #vss very short stories and will participate in December’s FlashFicHive, but the main focus will be inspiration for a daily editing practice.

Here’s the bibliography of books I plan on working through this month of editing:

Revision And Self-Editing (Write Great Fiction)

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore

The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

Getting the Words Right: 39 Ways to Improve Your Writing

To keep the poetry going, I looked up December poetry challenges and found the MoSt (Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center) 10th Annual New Year’s Poetry Challenge.

graphic by Anjela Curtis

It starts on December 8th and runs through the new year to January 6th. For this challenge, I had to sign up with my e-mail and they will send me the daily prompts.

Anjela Curtis who graciously runs #FlashFicHive has pre-posted the daily Flash Fiction prompts, so everyone participating can plan around social obligations.

I have a Christmas story I wrote a while back that needs a re-write. Hopefully, I will find some Christmas flash fiction inspiration.

    Conflict & Suspense

One thing you’ll be thinking about during revision of your novel is how you can increase the conflict and suspense. It’s how you keep the reader turning pages. I did a lot of study in this area and created a guide based on what I learned. I’ve made it available, for free, when you sign up for the Experience Writing Newsletter.

The monthly (or quarterly) Experience Writing Newsletter is just that: News from Experience Writing. You’ll get a quick overview of what’s going on here at Experience Writing including book reviews, great links, and writing challenges.

I hope you’ll take advantage of this FREE opportunity!

November Review

How was your month? If you participated in NaNoWriMo, I would enjoy hearing about your experience. What was your favorite thing that happened during the month? What was your least favorite? Please let me know in the comments.

My favorite part of my NaNoWriMo experience this year was  including a poem and a very short story in my daily writing practice. Writing the daily posts here helped me focus my intentions for the day’s writing. For the first time, I reached my word goal early and did not feel rushed.

My least favorite part was not finishing the complete draft. I still have some scenes to write and I will try to finish those this weekend, but it’s hard not to want to take a break. I feel like I worked hard and met the challenge, but I also want to have a complete draft. Thus I write on.

I’m excited to take a look back at all the poems and very short stories I’ve written over the last two months. I will be looking over the Poem A Day prompts and putting together my Chapbook for the Chapbook Challenge. I’m also planning to upload my very short stories to Hit Record in hopes to inspire collaborations and find projects for them.

I hope you’ll continue to join me this month for daily poems and very short stories along with prompts and inspiration.

Welcome to the last month of 2017.

Let’s end this year with great Writing and Reading!

            #NaNoWriMo Recap and December Writing Plans We did it! We survived National Novel Writing Month. It's time to put away that draft, but not time to give up the daily practice.