#campnanowrimo

[fakesurprise]

Redemption In Grey

The grey city floats in fog that was once an ocean, connected islands whose existence sometimes feels as precarious as a dream. It is a place of secrets and wonders, a haven for those who need it and the last place in the world were tiny magics work, crude echoes of a lost time. Dozens of peoples and species move between the isles and those who reach it often arrive on the bones of dead gods.

Secrets circle about Talyen, a lone thief desperate to prove his skills and avoid the trap of fate his former allies have set for him. Aided by the broken and the mad, their alliance held together only by his lover from another world, he accepts a job to learn the secrets at the heart of Iskarien, knowing that such truths might doom the city but desperate for a sliver of fame to prove his worth.

He does not expect to survive this, as no one has ever succeeded learning the secrets of the isle of Smelt before. But cities have more than secrets, and redemption can bring about a ruin all its own. For all Talyen’s allies have secrets of their own, and some are more than happy to see the city fall and all magic finally vanish from the world.

[skymeria]

Ahh... nothing like breaking your writing buddy's heart on a sunny afternoon 😎

[author-a-holmes]

Day 21 of the #writerfriendschallenge - Share a Proud Moment…

Making my first £10 in Royalties

I have a locket that I always intended to keep my first £10 in royalties inside. But I expected that to take several months.

I never even dreamed that would happen in the first month, the first week, that Changeling was on sale.

And then the absolutely wonderful reviews? I honestly couldn't have hoped for more.

[pandora-rose-xo]

Next month for Camp NaNoWriMo I am aiming to write (at least) 5000 words of things to Black out more squares on this board. So far I already have 2 blacked out, I have some plans for others and some I know I want to use original stories for rather than fan fiction. I am going to need all the spoons and good vibes I can get.

Let's just hope I can succeed this time!

[alecjmarsh]

WIP game

I got tagged by @ernmark to share all the names in my WIP folder. Thank you!

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! tag as many people as you have WIPs.

WIP list from my 2023 writing folder

The novels

Rose Window

Nobleness, Like Stars

Semper Femina

Project Camelot

Artemis Triptych

To Ruin Kings

The OFMD fics

Knee Cramp (LATGP 3)

Crying (LATGP 4)

The obligatory tentacle fic

Tattoo AU

Bonus: The trans nonfiction proposal

I can't tell if this is a lot of WIPs or not! Novels take a long time to work on, and I have several not on this list that have been back-burnered until some time next decade. Everything on that list I've spent some time thinking about this year.

By contrast I'm very selective about my fic ideas! I try to keep those well pruned

tagging @defilerwyrm @theputterer @natalieleif @ayamaguire

[rcoxwrites]

As I've just FINISHED a novel (hold for applause) my 11th year doing #nanowrimo and #campnanowrimo is going to be something different. Building my short story collection, fresh and new with all that I have learned over the years, with the aim to submit to publications and competitions. Stay posted for submission callouts and competition deadlines. #writing #writinggoals #shortstory #shortstorywriter https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpw3NkTycbL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[helendalibor]

Paris24 ist fertig!

Was lange währt … Ich bin endlich mit Paris24 fertig und habe vorgestern das Wort ENDE unter das Manuskript gesetzt! Vor einer Woche schrieb ich, dass es noch vier Kapitel wären. Es wurden schnell drei, zwei und dann das letzte. Es war das schwierigste. Meine Kapitelzusammenfassung bestand nur aus zwei Worten, nämlich dem Ort, wo der Showdown stattfindet. Der Rest war in meinem Kopf, wobei ich…

[danniswrites]

National Novel Writing Month Winner Certificate!

I finally got it! So I didn't need the Broken Website Certificate after all! I'm a happy NaNo Camper, and I bet a lot of us who finished early are now breathing a sigh of relief. Just needed to wait this one out.

I finished my 50,000 words of editing on this Jul 10 and was panicked when I didn't get my WINNER flair, but just a 'met goal' fireworks animation. So maybe I didn't have to delete my project, after all. If this happens again, I'll wait 'til later in the month to get drastic.

[geschichtenimperium]

CampNaNoWriMo? Ohne mich!

Dieses Mal wird der CampNaNoWriMo ohne mich stattfinden. Ich habe mit dem Überarbeiten des Weihnachtsromans so viel zu tun, dass keine Zeit für das Schreiben eines anderen Romans bleibt. Die Ideen für meine Tifa20-Romane müssen in der Schublade bleiben. Ich schaffe gerade mal ein oder zwei Minutengeschichten pro Woche, das war’s auch schon. Zwar ist der CampNaNoWriMo nicht mit dem NaNoWriMo zu…

[lymlibros]

Camp NaNoWriMo Julio

Me anoté como de costumbre al Camp de Julio, sólo que por primera vez me puse como meta una cantidad de palabras menos que las 50 mil que trataba de hacer siempre: 13 mil.

La verdad es que no escribo diariamente y de hecho deben ser menos de 5 días los que escribí durante este mes, pero la realidad es que es un mes muy movido personalmente, por mi cumpleaños, otros cumpleaños, aniversario, el festejo del día de la amistad (o sea hoy) y cuando hay fechas importantes a mí me da ansiedad.

Aún así estoy feliz de las más de 2 mil palabras que logré hacer el otro día que me inspiré y ya voy unas 5 mil, no es mucho, pero todavía tengo más de 10 días para escribir las 8 mil que me faltan.

[ambreeskyewriting]

*rolls in covered in cobwebs and coughing up dust* heyo I heard y'all r writing books this month?

[fakesurprise]

Fetching Hope

Smuggling a weapon of mass destruction from one land to another distant nation was never easy. But the job was the job, and Ashek was very good at his job. 

He hadn't anticipated that that  weapon would still be alive. 

He had been surprised to find out that the weapon seemed nice. 

And he really had not expected to ever fall in love with one.

[skymeria]

Camp NaNoWriMo

Well... it’s that time of year again where I pretend I’m a real writer and that I’m actually going to get a draft finished. 

But this time it’s different because this time I AM going to get a first draft finished! I’ve manifested it. I’ve spoken it to the Universe. And I’ve told Lola I’m going to do it so if I don’t then I will have lied to Lola and that is Very Bad. 

So the next 30 days will be filled with all things #LunarWIP 

Also, please bear with me... it has been an AGE since I’ve used Tumblr and I’ve got no idea what I’m doing so if there is anyone still out there do excuse the mess!

[author-a-holmes]

Day 9 of the #fictionwriterchallenge - What's Your Big Author Dream?

I don't know if my dreams would be considered "big" author dreams, really

I'm not trying to be a "best selling author" or make it onto the NYT Best Seller List, or even be a houshold name. My goals, dreams, are comparatively simple.

I want my books to be read, and my characters to be loved.

I'd, ideally, like to be earning enough from my books to fascilitate my continuing to write them.

But my main goal is for people to read my books, to love my characters, and to spread enjoyment with a quality product.

[blankpaperandme]

My CampNaNoWriMo April 2023 Takeaway

New blog post! Talking about my #Campnanowrimo experience.

Hello friends! I hope you are all doing well and I really hope you had a lovely week. If not, hey, at least the work week is over now! For today’s blog, I thought I’d talk a little bit about my Camp NaNo experience this past month of April. I decided to re-edit my science fiction novel, titled Project Angelus, because there were some big picture items that weren’t really working in this novel,…

[andswarwrites]

Day 1

So you want to know what a thousand words looks like and how long it takes to write it?  Read on. 

I remember hearing the groans when our English teacher in Grade 7 told us he wanted us to write a hundred words.  He then wrote out a paragraph on the board and told us: that’s a hundred words.  Up until that point I had counted pages, but he taught us to look at the words, because you can change the font size and make it seem like you have a lot of writing with pages, but numbers don’t lie when you’re counting words.

I've had six English teachers in my life.  Four of them were awesome, and two of them were not.  I have fond memories of English class.  I was taught at home from grades one to six, so my first English teacher was my mom.  She and my dad would bring me to a library that allowed children an unlimited pile of books, and I would take advantage of that.  From the age of three I was an avid reader.  I would come to the check out desk with a pile of books over my head, and the librarians would ask me if I really was going to read all of these books?!

To be honest, I would read about four or five of those books on the trip home.  If I was misbehaving, my mother would threaten me that if I didn't stop, I wouldn't be allowed to read.  There was a series of stories about a community of all sorts of different animals, and it was beautifully illustrated.  This series inspired me to create my own books.  My dad would bring home large sheets of paper from work, which I would fold in two and staple into a book, and then I would make my own illustrations and spin a tale.

When I was old enough to appreciate Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume, I got inspired to write my own chapter book.  It was thirty-five pages, and I painstakingly colored the pictures.  At age twelve I read my first historical romance: it was Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer.  My mom had a whole shelf full, along with books by Nevil Shute and D. E. Stevenson.  Around that time I fell in love with Anne of Green Gables, as well.  Anne was just as talkative as me.

Of course, my love for historical fiction made me want to write a novel of my own, so that was my one hundred page summer project, which I showed to my English teacher.  The computer on which I wrote that book has long since perished, and I lost my one printed copy, which is just as well, because I am sure it would make me cringe to re-read it.  In my late teens I got an idea for a science fiction novel.  I worked on it but never completed it.  And by Grade 10 my English teacher was once again my mom, and she gave me a project.

Mom told me that I had to write a novel using the old adage to "write what you know".  Up until that point, from the books about animals, to the story of a little sister I wished I'd had, to the romance and the science fiction, my projects had been heavily laced with imagination.  I didn't really want to "write what I knew" at first, because I felt like what I knew was pretty boring and uneventful.  I did have a friend who lived close by, and she and I would hang out a lot.  We had a circle of friends.  I used this as a basis to write a story about friendship.

In my early twenties I hit a rut.  I wanted an original idea, and every time I sat down to write, nothing came to me.  Events were unfolding, however that would lead to my first success with Nanowrimo.  It took three attempts.  I was at home with my six month old baby, and while she would sleep I would write.  Completing that project gave me the confidence I needed to tackle a single sheet of loose leaf I had filled in pencil nearly a decade prior.  It was just the intro to a story, but I couldn't think of how to continue for all that time.

Here's the thing about Nanowrimo: once you figure out how to write a 50K novel in thirty days, it's somehow easier and easier each year you attempt it.  You figure out your own way of doing it.  But in 2021 I decided that in 2022 I would write 365K words in a year: an average of a thousand words a day.  They wouldn't have to be all fiction, but I would also try to write a novel.  This year, I'm writing a thousand words a day, but I'm keeping the fiction goals down to short stories when I feel like writing them.

I do have another idea for a novel.  It seems as though every time I write one, an idea for another takes its place.  It's just that I'm waiting for the idea to fully form in my mind.  You have to be patient with stories.  Sometimes you start one and you have no idea where you are going with it, and you're just along for the ride.  Other times, you've got a few pieces of an idea, and you have to wait to get more pieces to really get a clear picture of what the story will be.

I'm also watching my daughter become a writer in her own right.  She has tons of ideas for stories, she just has to choose one to stick to and complete.  I'm encouraging her to work on one this year, and write it until she reaches the end.  I've also got an idea for a story that we can collaborate on.  My mother is a writer, so my daughter is a third generation writer too.  She's currently reading that novel I wrote in Grade 10, and she likes it.  So, this was a thousand words, and it took me about two hours to write, with a lot of pauses to do other things.  I can’t think of anything else to say for now, so I'll stop here.