It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your book is?

I am not reading right now! I am expecting a broders card soon and am looking forward to going to Borders.. Enjoy everyone who is though!

Unfortunatey I do know where it is. It's mostly in my head. I can think of the story exactly how I want it in my head but when I try to type it out, I have a little trouble. Part of it is that I have distractions all day but I know that if I said that all the time, that would just be an excuse. I need to jump in and follow my dreams.

Try an outline, perhaps? Or just a start of different titles & chapters. Just go for it, my writing buddy!

I did NaNo last year (and won) and am planning to go this year as well. I have an article here about my NaNo progress and a small teaser on the first couple chapter outlines.

To answer your questions:

Are you working on it? For how long? And, are we there yet? Meaning, are you finished? I'm always working on it in one form or another, just not always in the form of word counts, darn it. I've been working on it for more than a year if you count time to plot and research. I'm nowhere near done, though.

What have you done with your masterpiece? What's the premise? I've done over 6 months of research and most of the first draft. I'm more of a secretive person on my premises as I do entertain selling it somewhere and well, these articles are easily searchable online.

What's the shortest amount of time it took you to write your book? Is it published? Well, most of it took 28 days last NaNo, but I'm still short a good 10,000-20,000 words for a complete first draft.

Also, feel free to join my NaNo group here on Gather and post over there.

Also, if you do want to add me over at the NaNo forums I'm known as poysen there.

Well, yes, I know where it is. :) It is neatly typed, double spaced, sitting in a box in my storage room. It is fantasy. It needs a rewrite where I forced a subplot and where I want to develop the magic system slightly better, but is otherwise complete. And no, I won't be unpacking it any time soon, my kids are too young and too into every-loving-thing.

It is not, obviously, digital at all. ;)

Thanks for the reminder...I won NaNoWriMo 2 years in a row. It was such a stimulater, or it might be that I writer better in the winter months since I am nocturnal. Anyway, I have several novels started, one which need s revised about 2 times then I will be ready to find an agent and off to get published. I ahve seceral picture books and middle-grade chapter books almost ready to hit the presses. So I am busy.

Not published - none of them. Where are they? Mostly in boxes upstairs and a backup hard drive. What are they? Mostly picture books, middle-grade books of 4 minute stories, and my first novel (first draft took a month; it's on its third draft now). Just finished the first draft of my second novel, so maybe I'll plan to finish second or third draft by December. Does that count as taking your challenge? (Third and fourth novels are bits and pieces on paper and in my head.)

thanks for the nudge... I do need to get working on it!!!

Wow, sounds like I gave some of you the nudge you needed. And yes, if you are trying it counts as accepting my challenge :)

Please continue...

many rewrites to do,,, not this time, maybe next,,,not happy yet,,, thanks,,,

Not a writer

lol! It's okay if you're not a writer. Glad you stopped by anyway!

Mine? Locked on an old hard drive somewhere in my garage, most likely.

Don't feel bad, I can't find my incomplete manuscript from when I was a teen. I want to though, I'd like to see what I wrote and finish it. It's quite an interesting story but some of the characters don't have a happy ending!

Good idea. I don't write books though.

Its on my trusty laptop & some of the other pieces of it are in the manuscript drawer in my home office. I'm aiming for the end of this week for completion.

I have a few music ones I'm working on. They are still a long way off though.

Congrats, Shun! Chuck, you can do it! Any writing is fine, not just novels! I wasn't going to write something longer and then I thought, why not, if they can do it so can I!!!

I'm working on my novel. It's been about 3 or 4 months now, I think. I'm not even 1/4 of the way done, though. xD

I'd love to take your challenge, and I've taken part in NaNoWriMo in the past, but this year I just don't think I can do it. I'm going to school full time at college /and/ high school /and/ I've got a job, not to mention that I'm trying to lose weight for prom this year. I do try to write a little every night, but I can't always manage it.

Sounds like you are busy enough, Sammie. Wish I would have challenged myself more in high school and college, but up until a few years ago I didn't even know I could write for publication or how to. Thanks to gentle nudges from friends and family, am at least starting and would love for everyone to come along with me!

Thanks Kim for sharing your great motivational site with me. Perhaps I'll, in parts, put my first unpublished novella on my site. It really needs another rewrite but I'm not in the mood to do so, unless I rewrite as I place it on the site. And my novella, as much of my other writing, might disturb a few in terms of the rights of other species. What the heck, maybe I'll start today, despite it's faults.

You are your own worst critic, they say. I say go for it, if it offends someone else then they can choose not to read it. People are always looking for something new and different!

Don't mean u can't write, Mar!! :)

Well, I've written some short stories that need work, and not even started on my idea for a novel. I've heard of the November project, but I don't know much about it. It's something I'd better get exploring. Are you starting a formal group on this?

I spend a lot more time reading than writing, although I do write a lot of book reviews.

I was a NaNoWriMo winner last year, and have finished another book since then, but have way too much to do with editing/rewriting both of those to start another for NaNo this year! For those who don't know about the contest, you're not allowed to use something you've already started for the NaNoWriMo event, it must be absolutely new and un-begun. You're not allowed to write one word of your actual manuscript until the stroke of midnight ushers in November 1st -- so all my unfinished projects will go forward on their own. :) Good luck to all of you who are ready to start something new, though -- NaNoWriMo is a perfect way to get inspired!

My book is stuck in my head as are my poems my songs and my short stories i need to let them out .... help!!!!

I am also struggling with that. That's why I wrote this. We can help each other!

Take a notebook with you wherever you go or leave one in your car. Or how about something to record, even if it's just your cell phone! It helped me.

Ugh! Why are you twisting my arm? I know I want to, but expanding past poems and short stories is a scary step. Hey, it's worth it to try~!

At first I thought you meant the book I'm reading and of course I know where that is. I carry it everywhere!

But the book I'm writing - well, that's a secret! Good tips in here, Kim.

I am currently writing my third novel, none of which are yet published (though I've tried with the first two).

My first novel is a ghost story, written mostly from the perspective of the ghost. It spans several generations from the time in the 1860s when the ghost is murdered until modern times when the conflict that claimed his life comes around again, and he is now capable of intervening. With years of perspective since writing that novel (it took about 14 year to write!) I now realize it needs a major overhaul, a complete re-write.

My second novel is a vampire tale, which supposes that vampires are not supernatural beings but rather infected with an extraterrestrial virus. The story is told from the point of view of a young man who has been chosen to be the patsy by a vampire who realizes that, in today's world, murders will be investigated and someone must be found guilty. The vampires M.O. is to select his victims strategically so some normal human looks guilty, let them take the blame, and then move on. This work was completed in about six years and now, several years after finishing it, I still believe it to be a publishable work in its current form.

My latest novel, about two-thirds complete after more than two years of work, is a deeper work. It is concerns a man condemned to death for crimes he has committed whose life is returned to him as a resulf of a great calamity that sets him free. He must now decide what to do with the rest of his life, a life he had given up on and accepted that execution was a fair end of. It is the first thing I've written which allows me to explore my faith and beliefs in the context of the storyline without bashing the reader over the head with them.

Your title threw me. I thought you were talking about what book I am reading. ( I have three , one is under my carseat to be read while waiting for the grandkids, another in my lunch box to be read at my breaks, and the other one is on my bedstand.)

I'd need to start it first. I only have the hundred some-odd ideas running around my head.