Challenge

I was introduced to a writing challenged. It's been around for years and is held every November. It's a month long challenge to write a novel in one month. The name of this event: Nation Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo).

Although a bit nervous about taking on a task such as this, I'm excited because it's going to give me a chance to push myself and write under a deadline. Also, it will give me a serious jumpstart on my next novel. Well, actually, I've started writing some of it but not very much at all. I don't intend to write this with the mindset that it is a completely written work. It's will be an extremely rough first draft. I don't even have a detailed outline written.

I guess this seems like a pending disaster without an outline but maybe this will be my outline! LOL! Either way, this will be a pretty fun challenge and I'm excited to start writing.

Update

Okay so as promised, here is the link to MSatch's story: Every Thursday. Go read and leave her some comments!

Research

I'm trying to research some things about website advertising, publishing and looking for forums that I can post comments on (only b/c I want to use my web address as the signature which will hopefully generate some interest). All of this is overwhelming. I don't really know where to start and there is so much stupid info out there that I don't know what sites are even worth looking at.

How do I begin to weed out the bs from the truth?

Dancing in the streets...

for MSatch. My best friend and a brilliant writer of chic lit. She sent a short story off to an online magazine who loves and will be publishing it. She even got a paycheck!

Unfortunately, I'll have to take the story off of THOB but that's not that big of a deal. She's moving forward and I'll be happy to relinquish the story.

I'll post the link to her publication as soon as I get it. In the meantime, check out more of her writing in the Oh the Drama section of THOB.

The business

Clearly need to do more to promote my website but I don't know what to do. I've never been very "business-minded." I guess I'm more of the let me lock myself in a room to write, pass the manuscript under the door and start writing another, while someone else takes care of the rest.

That's bad. But I just don't have what it takes to do the business stuff. I need someone to swoop in and take over the site and get my work noticed by more people. I'm feeling very unhappy with the lack of career I have. Have to make changes. What do I do?

Feeling myself while I suffer for my art

So I said before that I was getting a lot of creative energy flowing and I was loving it because it has me writing and producting ideas like crazy. I've figured out why I'm feeling so creative. I'm an erotic person, hence my love for erotic literature. I have been going through a slight drought due to my standards of not sleeping with just anything. I have standards that I proudly adhere to.

Lack of sex = always horny
Always horny = always thinking about sex
Alwyas thinking about sex = a lot of creatively erotic thoughts

I could proactively go out and get my itch scratched but I'm enjoying channeling this energy into my work. Actually, I love channeling this energy. I think for now, I'll just let the flow continue.....but damn, this itch is something terrible.

So many thoughts...

and they are all so erotic. I have been flooded with the urge to write and so much of it is hitting me at once. I've started writing quite a few things over the past couple of days, as well as making notes to myself about a bunch of other stuff. I love when this happens because I get so many ideas. The only draw back is so much is hitting me, I can't stay focused on one idea long enough to get more than a few paragraphs, some times only sentences, written down before I have a completely different thought to jot down. I can't even be upset about that though because I'm so in love with writing and getting new ideas. It's 5:17am and I'm about to force myself to go to bed and stop writing.

I did, however, manage to write this one peice in about ten minutes. I think I was only able to finish because I wrote it so fast. Anywho...check this out: Arousal