Vacation post #1

You remember me saying that I was going to spend my vacation reading and writing? Yeah, about that, ha ha ha. I finally sat down yesterday and did a little bit of writing. I also wrote quite a bit today, and I'm raring to write some more. It's hard to get started, but once I …

Finally inspired

I've spent most of the past two days in bed. I haven't been feeling all to great, and I haven't had much energy. I even called out of work this morning. My stomach was a bit topsy-turvy and I didn't think work was the best place for me. I'm hoping I feel better in the …

Slowly forward

If this was NaNo, I'd be losing. I'm currently at 13,195 words, and though I could be further along, I'm not. I haven't set an arbitrary nightly word goal to meet. I'm just writing as much as I feel like writing for at least an hour, and I'm not even making that. I may have …

Post NaNo: I'm ready to start on my real novel

Here it is, the day after, and I took a day off from work. It wasn't the result of NaNoWriMo but rather pushing myself at work the past couple of weeks. I had hoped to last until my scheduled days off, which would have been Thursday and Friday, but when I woke up, I knew …

NaNoWriMo 2014: Day 23 – Catching Up

You're not going to believe what happened this week. Yep, I fell behind yet again. This time I was two a little more than 4K behind, and I got within 600 words of par. All it took was me jumping into the car, driving an hour, and parking my rear end in a chair in …

NaNoWrimo 2014: Day 5

I hit a hiccup yesterday. Well, it was more of an impenetrable brick wall into which I slammed head first, then went careening over a cliff, only to die in a blaze of glory when I came to rest at the bottom, with no one to witness my unfortunate demise. Luckily, I got better and …

NaNoWriMo 2014: Day One

Today was the first day of the madness which is National Novel Writing Month - or NaNoWriMo for short. I didn't start last night at midnight as I had hoped to, but I managed to type something out, though I'm not all that satisfied with the results. I surpassed the daily goal of 1666, and exceeded …

My NaNoWriMo Synopsis

Here's the synopsis of my story. You can find me on the NaNoWriMo website at Joe Hinojosa. Having survived a tumultuous childhood, Giada wanted to escape the life of poverty that had defined her young life. Seduced by the promise of easy money, she began to cater to the rich and powerful of Rome, never imagining …

In search for a plot

Fellow Wrimos, we're going on less than thirty-six hours before NaNoWriMo 2014 kicks off, and I can't be more excited! And terrified. I just realized that though I know who I want to write about, and I have a general idea of where I need to end up, I have absolutely no idea how I'm …

The Jasmine-Giada Substitution

I finally hit the point of collapse, at least as far as my story goes. When I last visited you, I shared an excerpt from the book I'm rewriting, which I'm calling Jasmine, but formerly called Unseen Obsession. I hate that title! I've been doing some minor revisions in grammar, language, and spelling. I've cleaned …