Oh my little furry, four pawed children....

Oh my little furry four pawed children how mommy tries to play with you and you do not want to. I pick you up and you try to run. So I say forget it and try to go about my day. I will try to write or read or even play video games. But then suddenly I get the why are you ignoring us mommy? And suddenly we must lay on top of your laptop or knaw at the powercord. We'll stop you from reading your book anyway we can and don't even try to play video games.
Even now as I write this my little Dagonet is trying to get on top of the computer.
But I have to laugh because I know the minute I put this away and try to play off they will run.

My little writing machine

As you can tell it's been awhile since I've been able to write in this blog. I've finished Nanowrimo but not the story yet. It has taken on a life of it's own and gone a direction that I could not dream and I do love it. I'm sorry to have to shelf it for a bit but I have alot of competitions coming up the first being amazon's breakthrough novel award in which my insaneness has decided to write a whole new story for and so from now till January 9th I have to knock out 50,000-150,000 novel then January 10th-24th edit it and get it ready to upload @ 12:01am along with a pitch and an excerpt.
Then Jan 26-Feb 28th I shall finish my nanowrimo book (Homo-Sapiens the hidden threat) edits and all so I can upload it to create space for my free proof copy.
March 1-31st I will be writing for the Writer's Digest 79th annual writing competition which I am not sure what I am writing about but hopefully something will come to me. It will be put aside at the end of March so I can start to do script frenzy in the month of April then to be picked back up again and finished before uploading it on May 14th(the day after my birthday).
I also have a couple side projects to finish just for fun and hopefully I can update this blog periodically.
I should hear about the results of the writer's digest short story competition at the end of February I believe. If at that time I'm able to post my story here I will.
Also I really want to start a few stories for just this blog and I will do so maybe in May when things settle down a bit.
But out of all this insanity I'm happy about one thing, I'm writing constantly for the first time in years. I hope that you all enjoy it.
I'm on twitter now under dracara and that soon will go the writer's route and I'm looking into creating a website for all of my writing's and going on's.
I will keep writing and hopefully you guys will keep reading!!!

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the first day to be able to upload your novel so they could count it and verify if you ar a winner was today. I was going to wait but since I had comp issues and internet issues I just went for it and uploaded today. I collected my winners web banners and certificate.

Now comes the time to finish it then edit it and get my free proof book then just dream of the next step.

true writer's block

Writer's block is a big building that houses electronics and is bathed in blue & yellow.
It's amazing, like walking into the abyss all inspiration is gone.
The mind short circuts and stupidity and ignorance take over.
The feeling of uselessness and self loathing creep into every crevice of your being.

nanowrimo in full swing

I'm hard at work on my 50,000 word novel that I've pledged to do in the month of november.
Nanowrimo.org happens every year in november. It stands for National novel writing month. Writers pledge to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. I'm on day three right now and are ahead by three days. The difficult thing about this besides the fact that you have to write 50,000 words in 30 days is that there is no editing allowed. So if there is a paragraph or even a chapter that you don't like no touching till december!
I do love my novel right now. I'll keep in touch on the progress

One step closer

So after much thought I've decided to attempt to go back to school. I have pushed it back slightly to the spring semester. It should be English with a concentration on creative writing. The only thing that sux is that it will be at least a 4yr program. I will only be going part time but I hope at least it'll help.
I'm also particpating in the nanowrimo this time around. 50,000 word novel in one month with no editing at all, should be interesting. It starts tommorow. I'll keep posting

Where to begin

So I've been attempting to write for many years. I have thousands of ideas in my head, but how do I get them down on paper and sellable? Throughout my schooling I hated to write. I knew why, it was the way I had to write. I never understood this concept. If writing is an expression of the writer then why can't the writer express it the way he or she sees fit?

I call this blog, uneducated writer's journey, not because I never went to school, but because I never followed my heart and learned what I needed to.

Let's not even mention just how bad at spelling and grammer I am. Another reason I stayed away from the classes.

In high school the writing classes were mostly journalism. This I knew, was definatly not what I wanted to do. So I went about my high school life, like most, not worring about the future.

When I left school, I still didn't have a plan. Suddenly I found myself dropping out of a local community college and enrolling in Bradford business school for paralegal. Needless to say, that lasted about six months. I worked for the next four years before deciding that I needed to try schooling again. I went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for special effects. I enjoyed it for the most part but something still felt like it was missing and I started to lose interest again. I loved the creativity of it though and knew that the only time I was happy was when I was creating. Whether I was painting, sculpting, creating jewelry or writing anything, I would be happy.

Now however I need to decide on one career with many hobbies. I know that is to be a writer, more precisly, a novelist. Yah a decision, so now what...........