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New found motivation!

I am not sure where it is coming from, but Im pretty sure my new motivation is from the fact that I have an office job and it has made me realize that I do not want to be working a 9 to 5 job for the rest of my life! It is the most incredibly boring thing I have ever done! I am very grateful for the fact that I am able to work and bring in a good income, but I am even more grateful for this job, because it has made me realize what I truly want to do and givin me the motivation to do it!

I officially have 3 full pages of the end climatic scene of my book! Im starting at the end so I actually hav a goal to work towards, and it is working beautifully! As I write I keep thinking of what different scenes in the beginning of the book are going to be like, and my book is coming together. Im so excited I could jump and scream, but that would probably be inapropriate in the middle of work.

Thank you lord for helping me in a way that I could never have seen!

Woes

I have gotten so much farther in my book! I wrote out scene cards, and character cards, and it has actually started turning into an actual story!

The only thing that has me stuck right now, is the ending. I cant quite figure out how I want the first book to end. I want to be able to just sit down, close my eyes, and let the story play out in my head, but I havn't gotten a spare minute in forever! Every time I sit down to contemplate, I get interupted with something. I tried last night, yet again, but sleep was the one to interupt me then!

I have a pretty good plot in line, but I need to write out the climax before I start writing anything else. This is where I have gone wrong in the past. I wrote from the begining, just typing every word that came to mind. This time I am actually going to sit down and use my words for a purpose!

All in all, I think Im going about it the right way this time. Wish me luck!

Inspiration

Today is my birthday! I know your wondering what my birthday has to do with my book right? Well, for My Birthday I got a giftcard to Barnes and Noble, and with that gift card I got a nifty little book called "The Writers Little Helper" I am loving how helpful this book is!

Now if only I could stop reading tips on how to write, and actually start writting! HA! Theres the problem! I have gotten quite a bit of information down about my new book! and I am very excited! I think it is turning into more of a Fantasy book than Urban Fantasy like before. Having my own little world that I can make anything possible is pretty darn cool, If I may say so my self. :)

Anyway, I need to get back to work, can you tell Im working hard? I might just write some as well!

Research

Thats what Im going to call it! I just spent the last 2 weeks reading all 5 books to the Percy Jackson Series. Of course It wasnt all hard work no play..I enjoyed my "research" a little.

I was so emmersed yesterday I finished the entire last book. My kids could have been on fire and all I would have said was "Thats nice sweety go play."

My reason for researching is because I was watching Avatar (not the Number 1 movie) The Last Air Bender. It a cartoon on Nickelodeon that I used to watch and is now being made into a movie, which I can not be more excited about! Anyway its about 4 "nations" Earth, Air, Water, and Fire Benders. A person born into the different nations sometimes has the ability to bend that element. Now I didnt really notice at first, but after a couple episodes I began to catch similarities in this cartoon and my prospective book.

For instance my characters can "bend" those substances as well as moon, and sun. Their water benders have th ability to heal..as do mine. The Avatar can master all for elements, my main character has the ability to bend 2 elements.

So many likeness' I just can not go through wtih it. No matter how irritating it is to finally have had an idea that actually got further than one page, that can no longer be persued!

So for now Im back to research and hopefully I will be blessed with a completely (well maybe not completely seeing as there are only 9 fiction plots) original idea. Pray for me.

Junk Food

Okay I officially have 3 pages typed into the computer! Yay me! :) I have written a bit more in my notebook.

For some reason I can only work on the computer if I have something to snack on while Im doing it. As soon as I sit down in this computer chair I instantly want chocolate, chips, snack foods and a diet coke or I can not function!

So my two choices are, load up on junk food and eat the entire time Im writting, or make my work suffer because Ill be thinking about how much I want junk food instead of the next word I should be typing!! Help!

mmm...some skittles and Limon chips sound really great right now.

Procratination..my evil nemisis strikes again!

I have attempted to put everything on my computer, but have only managed half a page so far, and that half a page has 5 different changes from what I wrote originally! Although I do like it better I cant help but wonder if nothing will stay the same. As Ive written more in my notebook different plot points change and even characters names. If someone read my "book" right now they would definately see that it is completely different from start to finish.

I can see now that Im going to have to edit about 20 times to make sure everything is right.

All in all Ive been doing alright. Ill write a page or two a day, which isnt really signifacant but is much much more than I ever have before so Im really proud of myself! Im still into the story and I havnt gotten to the good part yet. (Seeing as Im writting it I know exactly where it will be!) I know alot that I already want to change with the begining and want so bad to back track and change it now, but if I do that I will keep doing it and the story will never go forward. So I am going to say on this path and just keep writing.

Right now Im not getting into much detail, im just writing through what I know is going to happen and writing the major plot points, my first edit will be to put all the datail and the bulk of the book in. Then only 19 more edit sessions after that!! Pray for me!

Putting everything off!

So I havnt wrote in awhile I know! Our Computer broke so Ive been out when it comes to internet lately. Luckily for me my husbands step father rebuilds computers and made me an early Christmas present!! Yay Steve! lol I am so grateful! I havnt been online in so long I've forgotten all the wonderful distractions there are on here!!

As for my NaNoWriMo, well it too was put off, the computer was one reason, but my daughter and procrastination were big reasons as well. I have wrote more on my book, and have gotten at least 100 times further than any other book Ive started. I am in love with my story, Im not even sure how it will end, which makes me want to write even more, so I can find out!! haha I think Im going to try and transfer it to the computer and finish it from there, but Im not sure I want to yet. I think I get more inspiration when Im handwriting it. Theres something about seeing it there on paper and being able to flip back and forth that makes it more real. But, ofcourse I will have to put it on the computer eventually so transfering the little I hev now seems so much less daunting than trying to type in 500 pages.

I'll think on that and get back to you. Until then, Im going to look up some Harry Potter, and Twilight stuff! B uh Bye! :)

Obstacles

Yesterday was the start of National Novel Writing Month and I did great! I had to put it off until 11-o-clock at night but I typed for an hour and managed to get  863 words out! I got super tired after that so I had to go to bed.

Then today while my daughter was taking a nap I sat down to write some more. I had writen my story on Google Docs, so I could have it anywhere I go. I went to open the document today and for some reason my computer doesnt want to load half of the google page, including the link to open my document. I tried refreshing and back steping and clicking away madly but to my dismay..nothing worked. So now I am back to square one! I cant remember what I typed, only the general tone of it. It was probably for the best though because it seems to me that I am a much better writer when I hand write. I type much faster of course, when handwriting it takes me an hour and a half at least to get what I typed in an hour. The benefit of hand writing though, is being able to see it tangiblely (please refer to my blog about spell check) in front of you, and look back and write in, or out. I think Im going to take my computers lack of cumputering skills as a blessing and start in my notebook. My beautifully lined, solid, notebook.

So tonight, after heroes and Dancing with the Stars, I will start all over handwriting my soon to be Best Selling Book :) Thinking Positive works really well for me.

Things Unforseen

Busy Busy week! Friday night my daughter burnt her hand on our heater. We went to the emergency room thinking that they were going to put something on it and let us go, turns out it was a third degree burn and they had to put her under to cut the blister off. We were at the hospital for a week. She did so great, and all the nurses loved her! They dont think theirs going to be any scaring or anything! I cried so much this week, but now that I know she is going to be okay (and now that we have a gate baring the way to the heater) I feel much better.

Also, I have some big news! We just found out I am pregant with my second kid! We are very excited. Who knows how this is going to effect my writing, I might want to kill of a character one second and then be trying to figure out a way to bring him back the next!

Today is November 1st! The official starting day of the 50,000 word challange with NaNoWriMo! I have yet to start writing, but mark my words, I will be writing into the night. It will be much easier once the kiddo is asleep.  I have been having dreams about my book and now I get to start it!! Everything is comeing together nicely! Wish me luck and please keep me in your prayers!