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Nine for NaNo October 31, 2013

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This year, alliteration is my motivator as I go for “Nine for NaNo”. NaNoWriMo, run by nanowrimo.org, motivates writers to complete a 50,000 word first draft in the 30 days of November.

I’ve done it for eight prior years, and I have hit the mark eight times.

This year, with my prequel to THE HEART’S DUTY entitled DISCOVERING THE HEART’S DUTY, watch me go “Nine for NaNo!”

Here is the list of all my manuscripts:

2005 – TOUCH THE STARS (Womens Fiction/Romance, now available indie self published published in ebook and print)
2006 – FILL THE INNER CIRCLE (Womens Fiction/Coming of Age, indie self published published forthcoming – part of the Willowbrook Saga, available as ebook)
2007 – THE FIRST THE LAST THE ALWAYS (Womens Fiction/Coming of Age, indie self publishedpublished forthcoming – part of the Willowbrook Saga)
2008 – ALL THAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND (Womens Fiction/Romance – indie self published forthcoming – part of the Willowbrook Saga)
2009 – AN UNEXPECTED TURN (Womens Fiction/Romance – indie self published forthcoming – part of the Willowbrook Saga)
2010 – THE PAPER TRAIL (Contemporary Fantasy, status pending)
2011 – HALF TRUTH AND FULL LYE (Paranormal and Supernatural/Romance/Mystery, first book in the Truth Revealed series, available as ebook)
2012 – THE PHOENIX BURNS (Romance/Contemporary Women/Womens Fiction – indie self published ebook)
2013 – DISCOVERING THE HEART’S DUTY (Womens Fiction/Contemporary Women – prequel to indie self published book THE HEART’S DUTY – writing begins November 1st!)

 

As in past years, I will be offering the “first draft free” through Smashwords as part of their offering to NaNoWriMo contestants. So download DISCOVERING THE HEART’S DUTY as it becomes available and continue to come back throughout the month for free updates to watch the story unfold! Realize anything you read may ultimately be subject to change, but it lets you be part of the process too.

To celebrate going “Nine for NaNo,” this year I am upping the ante by providing coupons good at Smashwords.com for the prior year “winning” titles. Use the below coupons now until December 1st and get these titles FREE when entering coupon code at checkout:

FILL THE INNER CIRCLE (2006 NaNoWriMo winner) –  NA36A
HALF TRUTH AND FULL LYE (2011 NaNoWriMo winner) – JY66N
THE PHOENIX BURNS (2012 NaNoWriMo winner) – CX76C
TOUCH THE STARS (2005 NaNoWriMo winner) – XD27G

Thanks for your support! See you at 50K!

Prep for NaNoWriMo 2013 October 23, 2013

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I’m prepping to go into another NaNoWriMo, where if I complete this one will be in my ninth consecutive November “win”. This caveat came about because I attempted Camp NaNoWriMo this summer with the same 50K limit, but fell a bit short – a bit over 10K of words. I found it really didn’t go with my writing style, and being with a whole “cabin” of unmotivated people – some of which even dropped their word count to “win” – did not motivate me. I think the self-focused route works for me.

So what to write? Well, to be honest, it was going to be the 6th book in the Willowbrook Saga as of my plans in the early year. Then that became the manuscript I tried at Camp NaNoWriMo. So what to do?

In one of my earlier books and one of the few not to start as a NaNoWriMo project, THE HEART’S DUTY (of which a portion of it began serialized on Goodreads), the main character’s mother evolved into a character that left a lot of interesting questions. Given the kind of man her second husband turns out to be – spoilers! – why does she end up married to him in the first place? We have hints of why her first husband left her, but is that the whole story?

So what I have ready to go is DISCOVERING THE HEART’S DUTY, from the viewpoint of Kristine (McHenry) David’s mother in the aftermath of her divorce and the choices she makes to become the woman we know later in THE HEART’S DUTY. I have a feeling I’m going to discover levels of complexity to her character that were not apparent to me doing the other book. I have a month and 50K of words to find out!