New Look for the New Year

The blog has a new look to go along with the new horizons I'm moving toward. I'm very pleased, and I hope you like it. Please leave me some comments and let me know what you think. Just click 'Friends Said' at the top of this post.

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My Pics from NaNoWriMo 2008

This is my inspiration mirror. I wrote different affirmations on it during November to help me get through NaNoWriMo. My favorite one was: Do you really want to experience the feelings you will have if you don't win? Write! You can do it!
I think it worked!





The other image is my NaNo Author page with my verified winning word count! I was so happy when it changed to purple and the big picture of the Viking ship came on the screen and said, "You Won!"
Now I know why NaNoers say, "December is for sleeping." I feel exhausted, and also feel really strange today. I feel like I should still be working on the novel. It's kind of like my best friends moved away, and I don't quite know what to do with myself.
Maybe I need to start working on a new project?

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Less Than 24 Hours!

So I got the pumpkin carved, as you can see. The NaNoWriMo site must be down. Everytime I log onto Blogger I get a NaNo sign-in box popping up on my computer. There's usually electronic goblins floating around cyberspace on Halloween anyway, so I'm running a virus scan just to be safe.

The teleconference with Lisa Gentile this afternoon went very well. She helped me see another angle to a project I wanted to begin. She's wonderful. Lisa is a NaNoWriMo winner, and we share a love of consuming large amounts of coffee while writing.

And that's about all I accomplished today. Due to an attack of sciatica I'm sitting on a heating pad as I write this, hoping and praying it doesn't get worse. If it does, sitting at the desk will be out of the picture. And I don't need that the first day of NaNo.

Still psyched, though. Lisa's suggestions have me thinking of taking my novel in a whole new direction, possible combining the two ideas into one. That just might take the emotional edge off the project I originally intended to write. That way it won't be so overwhelming. Some of my friends have a saying, "New directions, new connections." It sounds like a good idea to me.

This time tomorrow night, we'll be doing NaNo! Yea!

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