NaNoWriMo in less than a hour!!!

so my day was spent watching TV-- hiding for trick-or-treaters (no one even tried us)--doing slight clean up from Halloween cookie/makeup mess. about an hours a go I started organizing the books I got the one's unpacked (not in the books shelf) alphabetized A-M, N-R, and S-Z-- oh and separated fiction from non-fiction. Had no desire to place in the book shelves... well because they're in the basement and it's cold.
tomorrow's plans:
walking the dog
making a nice really breakfast with pancakes and hash browns
quick clean of the bathrooms
paying rent (this should be fun)
and vacuuming
Oh-- and writing you know that thing.
the idea is if I'm not writing I'm cleaning or doing something else boring and adult. I may even unplug the Internet. I'll let you know how it goes.

Share with us: What is the first sentence you write for NaNoWriMo?

White Rabbit and good night!

Wow it's been a year...

It's been a year since my last entry. I'm going to try yet again to do NaNoWriMo. This time around I have created an outline (33 points) We will see if this is a helpful tool or not. I've never tried writing something with an outline in mind--but it was important for this story because I'm adopting someone else work. I have to admit last year fantasy book did better because I didn't have a plan for it- I created twists and turns that I wasn't excepting.

share with us: So tell me how do you normal start a project... do you have an outline, a scene in mind, or character? Or is just writing and see where the characters take you more your skill?

Finical Wednesday advice from Jean Chatzky 2010 calendar

What if? for a stuck story

This is my favorite advise for writer's block:
On a separate shee of paper write: What If. Now write five ways of continuing the story, not ending the story, but continuing the story to the next event, scene,e tc. Let your imagination go wild. Loosen up your thinking about the events in the story. your what if's can be as diverse as your imagination can make them. More than likely, and this has proved true through years of teaching and writing, one of the What Ifs will feel right, organic, to the story and that is the direction in which you should go if you can't see it write on a few of them and see where it takes you.

Dialog

Get a friend and improve a scene you're writing about. Make sure that it's a disagreement or an emotional event. does any snippets of dialog work? If so write them down!

For the Plot

Break your story idea down into 3 sentences of 3 words each. this will give you a beginning, middle, and end and help you understand the architecture of the work. By having to choose 3 verbs you'll be forcing yourself to consider the 3 pts of the action.

Scene Change

If a scene isn't working try changing the action or setting the scene is housed in.
For example how does a scene read different if a couple is planning their honeymoon while painting a room versus in bed after making love?