It’s been quite a long week, full of life events. Everything from a funeral for my dear sister-in-law, classes for Intentional Peer Support, battling the viral illness of the decade, and finishing reading a couple of books. It’s 10 p.m., and I still have some remarks for Dan to give at the dedication of the new Patriot Patio at the VFW Post tomorrow. It should be wonderful. The weather will be kind of us for an outdoor dedication, photos tomorrow.
As I look at it, tomorrow late afternoon will have a Husker game, game two of the World Series, and a final preparation for NaNoWriMo which starts November 1. It stands for National Novel Writing Month. the goal is to write 50K words in the 30 days of November. The idea is, you’ll be able to go back and edit the book after it’s written. I’m still working on “The Freeing of Katie Fitzgibbons.” I completed the challenge in 2020, dropped out after 2 weeks in 2021, and will give it a go again this year. We’ll have to see how it goes.
One school of thought is to plan on 2K words a day for the first two weeks. After racking up 28K words, the remaining 22K should be cake, right? Ha! Guess again. But that would certainly make a dent in it. Will she make it? Maybe. Maybe not. Stick around to see.
Writer’s Digest had another interesting article this month, “Writing the Ending of Your Memoir.” There are so many celeb-tell all memoirs coming out. Everyone from Prince Harry to Matthew Perry to Michelle Obama are publishing books. And sometimes it seems a little unfair these household names just write a book and it’s immediately on the best seller list before it’s been out for a week. They have a name they can use and capitalize on. I will have to work a lot harder than that to make a name for myself. And that’s just what we’re going to do.
The article discusses the concept of a memoir can be about just a moment in the time of your life. It doesn’t have to be birth to this very second. That narrows the scope considerably if you’re over 50. All of these ideas are worth considering when we get rolling again.
My novel talks about a specific time in a young woman’s life. It’s from after high school until she is 50. Time to get married, have kids, get a divorce, and . . well, you’re going to have to read it when it’s finished. Then I’ll have a following, too. Just keep following me. Invite your friends. We’re going to do something terrific. And in the process, we’re going to surpass the #1000followers mark.
If you’ll forgive me, The Astros and Philly are tied in the bottom of the 9th inning, an Astro just stole 2nd base, there are 2 outs. Go Houston! And here we go into the 10th inning. I have to take notes about this for an exciting ending. You can’t make this stuff up. Baseball. Gotta Love It! See you tomorrow!