Nanowrimo Giveaway

Once again the joy that is Nanowrimo is upon us – the time when countless authors hunker down for a month in a crazy attempt to scribe 50,000 words in thirty days!

In celebration of Nano 2017 I am giving away my first two successful Nano-novels for the first three nano-days.

So, if you want to grab yourself a free read, and maybe take a break from your own Nano writing then don’t delay, download today.. or tomorrow… or the day after – but that’s it 🙂

Assaie’s Gift:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TJ2Y4YI

Spirit of the Book :  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BC2T3WK

 

Nanowrimo2016 – Winner

November can be a strange month if you’re signed up to NaNoWriMo. A month filled with words (of course) but also numbers… that constant word count check, am I up to the target? My usual plan is always to try and write as much as possible on a Sunday and (hopefully) that way manage to get a few days ahead to allow for those days when you just can’t write – like if you have plans to go and see an Elvis concert for example (and that was AMAZING by the way!!)

And then you get to a day like today when I started the day with just under 3,000 words left to hit that magical 50,000 target… with each check the number got closer and closer and then, almost without warning, you do the validation check to see where your word count is up to and BOOM!!!!!

Yes the 50,000 target has been hit – granted at this point I am only 56 words over the target but even one word over would count 🙂 The Imagined is in no way a complete book yet – there is still more of the story to go and I hope to keep on writing it for at least the rest of the month. And then we shall see 🙂

So, fellow NaNo-ers I hope the target is in sight for all of you and if not, well there are still a couple of days left to get those fingers tapping on those keys 🙂

Happy writing!!

The Imagined – Nanowrimo 2016

So, we’re at day 20 of Nanowrimo – doesn’t seem that long since the long hard slog was about to begin and now we can see the end just over the horizon. I know that many have already crossed the 50,000 word finishing line – bravo to you. Many others are lagging far behind – don’t give up if you’re at that point, there is still time to get your write on and race to the end.

As for me, well I am comfortably ahead of target at the moment – at the point of writing this I am on 38,224 words with the aim (or at least hope) to hit 40,000 before bed 🙂

This seemed like a good point to introduce you to the world which has taken up a large portion of my time and concentration so far this month… the world of The Imagined.

Novel synopsis: On the world of Nihedr (nee-hed-r) existed The Imagined. A race of creatures brought into existence by The Iigned (eye-gned).

Being creatures of imagination The Imagined were not considered alive. They were not real.

The Imagine disagreed.

Chia was Imagined but he always believed that the family of Iigned he worked for considered him to be one of them. When Chia was accused of a terrible crime his world came crashing down around him and his status of being “only” Imagined came painfully home to him.

Was there anyone out there who could help him now? Anyone who would even want to?

I hope someone is intrigued by this little introduction 🙂

But enough of this procrastination – there is a-writing to be done 🙂

 

Nanowrimo 2016

The first of November is almost upon us. For many this is just the start of another month, but for many others this date signifies the start of another Nanowrimo.

If you don’t know what that is Nanowrimo stands for NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth… yes that’s right – a month… to write a novel. Thirty days in which writers from around the world take on the challenge to complete fifty-thousand words of whatever they choose, but it has to be written within those short thirty days.

“Why would you do this?” People may ask. “How do you do this?” Others will enquire.

The HOW I would imagine is the same for all participants… you write… that’s it… you just dedicate the time and you DO it. The trick is you have to just keep moving forwards… it doesn’t matter if things aren’t quite right or if there are typos/mistakes… that’s what rewrites and editing is for… Nano is the time to get that story OUT…

They WHY I expect vary wildly and I can only speak for myself. This year will be my fourth year – the first three I have managed to win (meaning that I hit the 50,000 word target in time) and I hope that this is something I will continue this year. I have to confess I can be somewhat of a lazy writer and I find this challenge a great motivator – that story that has been swirling around in my head finally gets its release and I just go for it 🙂

So, if anyone else out there is signed up for this please feel free to add me as a writing buddy – seeing how others are doing also helps keep you going http://nanowrimo.org/participants/dawneh

Good luck Nano-ers – we can do it!!!

Farewell to Nano

In celebration of the end of another Nanowrimo it seemed only fitting to give my first Nano outing a little promotion and so – for Sunday 29th and Monday 30th November by first book “Assaie’s Gift” is free for Kindle

GET IT NOW!!!!

Celebrate the end of Nano

In celebration of the end of another Nanowrimo it seemed only fitting to give my first Nano outing a little promotion and so – for Sunday 29th and Monday 30th November by first book “Assaie’s Gift” is free for Kindle

GET IT NOW!!!!

How Goes Nano?

Well hello there my fellow nanos… nanoers… nanobites… nanobots (oh they are something else entirely aren’t they?) my fellow Nano participants 😀 How has the first week of NanoWriMo 2015 been treating you?

I know a lot of people struggle with their inner editor this month, the idea of just writing down the story with no concern for correct grammar, punctuation or even spelling can be an alien concept to master but at the same time it can be so easy to get into an edit-loop where you spend so long getting a section “just right” that there is no time to actually write the novel in the first place 🙂

I started out this year with mixed feelings, I had little confidence I would get to the 50,000 by the end of the month (and there is still no guarantee that I will of course) but one week in and I am feeling more confident about it.

Starting the month on a Sunday was a bonus as I managed to get ahead of the target word count and have managed to keep that cushion for the whole week. It’s nice to be ahead of where you need to be so that on those days where you don’t manage as much as you would like you’re not suddenly falling behind and wondering if you will ever make up the gap.

I also have the added bonus of a long weekend off work coming next weekend so that should help get a good chunk written.

No my only real obstacle is the damned procrastination… why else do you think I’m writing this post… 😉

Current word count – 16,387

Back to it nanoites 🙂

Nanowrimo update

I wont do this every day cause that could get quite boring! But day one has ended on 4299 words which I am very pleased with… had kind of hoped to get to 5000 but as long as I keep ahead of target I’m happy 🙂

NaNoWriMo 2015

So November 1st has arrived and that means a 30-day slog to get 50,000 words written which will (hopefully) create the backbone of a novel.

I must confess I dont feel as confident about hitting the target as I did last year – as for the first year I spent most of it behind the goal with no belief I would ever get to the finish line in time.

As with all things there is only one way to get to the end and that’s to make a start. Even the greatest novel ever had to begin somewhere and this new one begins funnily enough in exactly the same place as my first book “Assaie’s Gift” – in the heavens with the three Goddesses Aalgeth, Anfare and Assaie.

Wish me look as I head out on the Nanowrimo journey of “Assaie’s Awakening”.

Oh and if any fellow participant wants to add me as a buddy on Nano that would be cool 🙂