The first round of Camp Nanowrimo is set to start June 1.  I'm very excited by that because I need all the help I can get when it comes to improving my writing.  If you think you've hit the top of your game when it comes to writing and expressing yourself creatively then you're probably kidding yourself.  I know I'm not at the top of my game yet.

Script Frenzy is in April and for those of you who write screenplays, more power to you.  I tried and failed with an epic greatness all my own.  Novels I can do.  Screenplays I leave to the experts.  If you're participating in Script Frenzy, my hat is off to you.  Obviously you'll focus on that before Camp starts in June.

For me, I'm planning my next Nano novel and trying furiously to finish Resurrection on time as well as getting query letters written for Prophecy.  The Nano novel is the easy part.

I've had an idea floating around in my head dealing with Norse mythology and a teenage romance that turns deadly and it all being a game in the end.  I've been playing with it for years now.  I think I just might write it out this summer.

What ideas have you been kicking around that you haven't written yet?

It's been a VERY long time since I posted anything here at Fang Marked.  I'm sorry for the lapse in posts.

Awakening was released last summer to very good reviews.  Prophecy has been re-edited and right now is only available on the Kindle.  The new edits are going to the publisher sometime in the next few weeks so the new version of the book will be available on paperback as well.  It has a new cover too.

Resurrection is going well.  Slowly, but well.  I don't want to rush this book into publication, but at the same time I know that I need to stick to my deadline at the end of June.  Right now I'm about a fourth of the way through it.  The wait is going to be worth it.

All three novels are available on the Kindle for $.99 and as of today, there have been over two thousand copies sold when the sales for all three books are added together.  That is amazing to me!  Thank you to all the new readers who are enjoying these stories for the first time and I hope to hear back from you all!

More updates to come!

I had a post written for Nanowrimo Week #1, but alas my computer ate it.  So I'm just going to start over.

Welcome to Tuesday, Week #2.  If you're on track, you should have at least 10K words right now.  If you don't, it's not over yet.  It's never over until December 1 comes around.  In 2009, I wrote over 20K in one eight hour time frame to finish at goal.  So, it's completely not over yet.

What distractions are you working with?

Mine are a little 8 month old boy who is starting to get his first cold, a husband working 12 hour days, and a growing irritation with my surroundings.  Those are minor.  Well, 2.0 doesn't think his cold is minor but it means longer naps and more writing time when I should be washing dishes.  The dishes can wait.

This year, I didn't map my plot.  I hardly researched.  I didn't even name my characters until I was actually writing them.  I've never done this before.  I always have a plan, a plot map, a character map, thorough research done ahead of time.  Last year that didn't work out so well for me and I hardly made it to 10k, giving up by my birthday on the 14th.

So I'm just going with the flow.  I know this novel will require LOTS of editing later on and I'm not committing to anything.  If I think one character needs to be in a scene, I write that scene.  I make myself finish the scene I'm on and only then do I stop (unless 2.0 is crying and then all bets are off).

We can get through this together!  It's only once a year after all.  Bring on week #2!

It only took me another year, but I finally finished Awakening!  It's ready to be proofed and I'm ordering that copy of the book tomorrow.  I can't believe it!

So what's happened since the last post?

My son was born on February 23, 2011.  Bringing a newborn home requires schedule adjustments and it took me and 2.0 a few months to get into a groove together.  Add to that a new work schedule for both my husband and myself and some...shall we say complications?  With all that, you have the perfect recipe for book delays.

But it's done now!  I can finally move on and work on Resurrection.  Now that's exciting!

Do you know how many times I've written Awakening?  Three times.  That's a lot for anyone.  I can finally move on with life and take the next step in the Chronicles Of Seven.

Fingers crossed for Resurrection by the end of the year!