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Writing updates for the coming months…

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I am back on the grind. I’m working on the first book of a new series in the back. I set myself a goal of 60k words and two and half years to get it done. I’m slow writing on this one. It’s going to something special and new. I enjoy the process of it. It’s a mix of Starship Troopers, Power Rangers and Thundercats.

It’s all whole a mixed bag of fun but I’m enjoying flushing out the concept. Not even sure if I will publish it but I am sure it’s going to be the pretty good.

This year alone I will be working on three writing projects. I plan to finish up Experiment Logan Jones soon enough. Though it has been a fun little story. I have an idea it’s around 50k words long but you can never tell with experiments like this one.

In other news NaNoWriMo has shit the bed. 1) It’s due to some political shit. 2) The company decided to focus on doing something else beyond the core mission.

My thoughts are I don’t give a shit. I always hated the name NaNoWriMo. I’ll be writing something special for the month of November’s Kiss. I like my name much better and it’s not locked into a word count or some other bullshit.

Anyway, I got plans and dreams and a whole lot of energy and imagination still in me. I’m going to chill a bit on the cyberpunk gold and dive back into my first love. Fantasy and movies that blow shit up.

Up and coming plans for November’s Kiss. “50K words isn’t that much”

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It really isn’t a lot of words. Man. I remember when that was a real challenge for me. I look back on it in fund memories of taking on that challenge for the first time I completed my November’s kiss run.

The biggest event of the year. Nanowrimo. I haven’t a damn clue what the hell I am going to do.

I have every intention to write a novel the month but things have changed. I’m dime novelist right now my dude.

I’m putting in a thousand or more words a day. I got a gig. I got 5 million word project to put in and a dream to fill in an entire fictional world.

I don’t know. I got to do something though. Why? I like the challenge now. I need it. So. I’m going to do what I got to do. I’m going to do something a bit of old school style. Brainstorming and outlining on the fly. That’s the game. Hell. I might even shoot for 50k words even still.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

How to write a novel in a month….Nanowrimo

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Alright let’s get right to it.

Whether your writing a novel for the month of November I.E. Nanowrimo the writer’s month or would like to know the process I’m going to give it to you short sweet and to the point.

Details. 50k words in one month. That’s 1,667 words in a day or more. Yes, it can be done. I got it done and it was a fucking rush getting it done finishing in the end.

Beginner level

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Start with what you know and what subject or genre of fiction you’ve read you know the structure of how it goes. Once you got an idea of what your writing is….start writing. Don’t plan out anything more start writing.

Get a writing schedule for each day and time of writing. Keep to the schedule. Keep writing. Don’t give up just keep going until you’ve finished it. There are 24 hours in a day. All you need is 1 to 2 hours or 40 minutes a day. You can get it done. Keep going. Keep writing. Keep pushing.

immediate

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Get yourself a good writing app that counts your words and have a set number of words you want to do that day and keep to it.

Fill in the holes in your beginning, middle and end to fill out your story or the thesis of your book. Keep writing and going. Keep to your schedule.

Master

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Yesterday you did 1,889 words today shoot for 3k in under two hours. Use your writing app and notes to keep track of your structure and story but and some days something fucked up is going to happen to throw you off.

Fuck it. Write 4k words to make up for the days something happen to throw you off. But, I’m not saying anything you don’t know. You were a beginner once. You kept with it. Your writing kept getting more and more easier.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg

Brainstorming and doubts about November’s kiss projects….

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I’ve mastered the art of brainstorming. I love process of it and the freedom of just taking images/ideas and smashing them together to suddenly make something I have never heard about or read anywhere before. It’s like a dice roll on a street corner for a couple of dollars. Some times you roll snake eyes some times you hit big with a 5 and 2.

That’s my type of gambling. I love the options and thrill of what could be the outcome and rush of a big big money creative explosion of ideas. Down side is once the creative explosion begins. Well it usual takes me months to crack out something good and then there is the rewrite.

November’s kiss or nanowrimo is a challenge I’m hoping to win big on this year. Though I’ve got back log ideas I’m picking on to see if they go I don’t know. I want to shoot for 50k words in a month this year. I don’t know though. I already have several projects I’m working I don’t know if I should shoot for it this time or just….

You know what fuck it. 50K. I’m going to do the thing this year. I might even have live stream events for it to screen record it. I got to try and I got ideas about what I want to write about….

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50k in a month. My best as been about 20-30k in a month at best. Fuck it let’s do the thing. I’ll lump it into my other projects and make it do what it do.

Sincerely,

Hmm. What the hell is going on with JDMO?

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Okay this is act two of the story. We have a new charecter. Nobody.

Who is nobody? A fucking alien. The end.

Seriously though. You only know these types of folk by their actions and evolutionary powers.

Again…she’s not a god. The slap on the ass had our girl hot and stung a bit. It’s going to be interesting seeing these two go at it and seeing how they effect Bran & Goldy’s story.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

JDMO…hot damn son. This shit is good and I have no idea where it’s going….updates as well.

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I thought this was going to be the end for sure but…na’aw son. This shit is still cooking. I still need to reveal the biggest battle to date. Plus act 2 needs to be kick ass intense.

I’m…holy balls. I love this story. I’m getting vibes of the 80s and 90s action movie quality. I’m going to publish this shit later in a more book like from with possible the completed stories of year one cyberpunk mornings.

Updates for next year. I still have act two for Resident Evil for October 2022 and my cyberpunk mornings for April to expand the lore.

I have an idea for a new series to write next year in another genre but for now I might just stick to what I like.

I really do hope your enjoying the process and entertainment of it all.

To brainstorm

To brainstorm is activate the allowance of the creative flow

From a ten year process of

Trial and error

Practice and study.

I love to write and I enjoy traveling

And roaming in the unknown to grasp onto what could be a great shit kicking time of writing.

Happy November’s 💋

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

New month a whole bunch of stories to tell and poetry to write…

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Damn. I’m tired. Yesterday or more like a few hours ago was kicking my ass at the day job.

I got to go four days of this shit. Still though it’s November’s Kiss finally so what’s the plan?

Finish big book project. I’m shooting for a full novel. 50,000+ words. I’ll be making notes when I can throughout the week and ejecting into the story everything I’ve learned writing wise and just throwing things at my characters to see how they react.

Side projects?

I’ll pump out some cyberpunk stories hopefully two this month and complete them and finish side one off stories.

Blog wise?

Poetry and Conundrums.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

DAY 8 to DAY 9 NNWM Notebooking and plot discovery.

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Hello,

I’ve been notebook writing a chapter about

The first plot in

Act one of

Section one of

November’ Kiss.

Coming soon

On

September 21st

Of 2019.

🙂

I’m just kidding on the date. The first is all true and factorial.

Yep, this book’s creation is going to go slow but I’m getting somewhere. I have a strong suspicion that I’ll finish the Anthology first though before the month is done. I’ll keep you posted.

L M. Parker

P. S.

I couldn’t think of anything to write the other because I didn’t have anything to confer back to you of great import.

DAY 6 NNWM I’m making progress. I think?

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I apologize for the late post but my head has been hurting all day and I can’t think of another excuse other then honestly I was doing some writing on the anthology again because I got stuck on one chapter of November’s Kiss.

The started with pain in my back and headache. I pushed through it though I wasn’t evening planning on writing on NK but I’m starting to get into the new book rhythm. You know that rhythm. Wake fire up the computer boot up the document write on it add a sentence here and there and then throughout the day and then it’s time to go back to bed.

Anyway, I worked on section two dealing with the relationship of one character’s relationship with their sibling and the close and trust both share and then I had to stop and do something else.

Boy oh Boy.

I’m trying to figure out how to explain this.

Truth.  This book is taking places as writer. I’m really pushing telling the truth about people and relationships even when I want to hold back. Family. Yeah. Family is complicated and simple. How much can you accept from your love ones and the make up of who they are. What does real love look like when it’s accepting of the person and not always what their choices are? In the book, I’m trying to figure out that answer.

Loyalty and trust are big themes I’m trying to convey strongly in the first draft. It’s a trial on my mind and confidence that’s why I think it’s slow going because I’m writing situations that are very dramatic but I’m trying to show brotherhood at it’s heart and manhood at it’s height.

Sorry for a bit of the mystery and round about talk but I’m trying to share more my writing thought process without giving you to much details about NK that don’t matter right now. It’s still just a first draft.  Maybe I’ll fail in the attempt but I’m trying to push myself because I love the message and characters that drive the story themes I care very much about.

L. M. Parker

P.S.

I really do love the characters in November’s Kiss.

 

DAY 5 NNWM Another day another few chapters and I took a break

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Day 5

I’m still writing at a snails pace but I’m still writing. I woke up feeling good and refreshed. I got into finishing up a chapter in section three and that’s about it.

Honestly, I couldn’t get anywhere with the book because I had a couple of story ideas swimming in my head when I woke in the morning for the anthology I started working on in October. I couldn’t let those ideas go without writing them down. But, the ideas turned into chapters and missing pieces I added into story lines I had to add.

I know. I know.

I’m trying to stay focused one the one project for November but I’m getting old and I had to write those ideas down or I would forget them by the end of the day. I’m thirty-four and my mind and attention gets captured by other pursuits and annoyances easily now a days.

🙂

Note: I really need to notebook write more. You might be asking why. It’s not that I use everything I have written down in my notebook and just put it on the computer. I use the notebook as a means of data mining for what sounds good and what is not worth putting adding to the document.

I’ll keep you posted and I’ll try to stay focused on the book.

L. M. Parker

P. S.

I think that I really need to give this book a name for the blogs. I’ll it for now. November Kiss or NK for short.

DAY 4 NNWM…I got no sleep and the day sucked but I got some work down on the book. The saga continues…

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Today sucked I got no sleep and I have a headache and had distractions without end throughout the day but on the lighter side of life I got some writing done so I’m happy.

I couldn’t get any morning writing done and afternoon writing was no where in sight because I had to be distracted by life’s demands on me. So must of my evening writing was where did as much work as I could do on the book.

I’ve worked on section one finishing the first chapter and it’s a interesting foreshadowing for sections two and three I then moved on to section two. In section two I worked on adding a few chapters adding in details and a new chapter in part.

Note: I’ve finally set my mind on a city for the story. I was choosing between Boston or Baltimore. I chose Baltimore because I know the city well and I would have to do more research about Boston.

I ended the day working in section three. Boy o boy this is looking good. A bit emotional but strong in the message of the book in general. I completed two chapters and I might only need one or three chapters to make a fun ending.  I’ll keep you posted.

L M. Parker

P.S.

I might not need to write a murder scene but I will have to write so

type of scene to explain the where they got the dead body.

hmm

I have to plan.