Altered By Me

What a busy month November has been for me this year. For those of you interested I have almost reached my goal of 50,000 words in 30 days for my NaNoWriMo . As of this very minute I have 48,067 word written for my Nano novella. Once i hit the 50,000 word goal I plan on continuing to work on my story. It is no where near finished yet and I really want to finish writing this story before Christmas. If your interested in finding out what NaNoWriMo is all about please check out the website. As my title says it's been a busy month for me. Along with everything else that has been going on I found a new author I just love, her name is Toni McGee Causey . And if I read her blog right this is her first book ever to be published. Congrats Toni! " Bobbie Fayes's Very ( very, very, very ) Bad Day " is the first book in a series of three. I am enjoying the book so much I can hardly put it down, except of course if I am going to get my some of my own writing done I have to once in...

Happy Thanksgiving! I should be cleaning my house or prepping my turkey, instead I am reading blogs. I haven't posted any new art work and I haven't had a chance to practice my soldering which I wanted to do so I could make some soldered Christmas ornaments. I should have known better. November is a very busy month for me. And not just because the holiday season is upon us. Every November I particiapate in a writing challenge. November is National Novel Writing Month or NanoWriMo . If you are a writer or have ever had dreams of becoming one this is the place to be each November. The site is also a non profit org who collects money to build libraries in under developed countries. No donations are required to participate and they have also started a Young Writers Program. All you homeschooling mothers might be interested in that program. The object of NanoWriMo is to slam out 50,000 words of a first draft novella. Doesn't matter how good or bad it is just so you get the firs...

Update December 11th 2007. I have attempted to contact CherieJ 10 times at her yahoo email address. Each time the email is sent back. Sorry CheriJ but after the holidays I will be posting this give away again. Thank you all for playing in the give away! Congratulations to CherieJ. She is the winner of my mini triptych give away. I will be emailing Cherie as soon as I post this. Thanks for stopping by and playing! Arlene