50,000+ words before the 22nd of November. I would like to say my brilliance was the cause, but I’m going with honesty.
Continue reading “NaNoWriMo 2016 – Success!”
So far, so good. I’m currently ahead of the curve in word count. 8,000+ words ahead in fact. This is necessary as I will have trouble meeting the daily count for a couple of days around Thanksgiving. I’m working on Pyxis,the second book in the Finding Earth series. (The first book, Cetus Landing, was drafted in NaNoWriMo 2015 and will be published 1st Quarter 2017.) Continue reading “NaNoWriMo 2016 Update”
This flash fiction is a peek into Clarity’s thought processes. It takes place in the Farseen Chronicles world nearly seven thousand years ago, and describes events when Clarity, Saffron and Fauna come into their majority, meaning they entered their childbearing years.
A seven-mile loop around Pilot Mountain in North Carolina ends with steps. Lots and lots of stairs, in part for erosion, but mostly to taunt older hikers who do not do stairs well.
While visiting a cousin in Tennessee, we took a two-mile hike in a regional park in her hometown. No long drive or planning required. Just a bottle of water and a trail.
The leaves are changing and the air is cooler. Yep, it’s NaNoWriMo time. Another hectic November writing 50,000 words toward my next novel. It worked well for me last year and in early 2017, I will be publishing the finished novel (Cetus Landing, Book 1 in the Finding Earth series) of the book I drafted in the 2015 NaNoWriMo.
The premiss is that you write every day starting November 1st with the goal of having 50K words written in your novel by November 30th, that translates to 1,667 words a day. Note that 50K will equate to half a novel first draft for my Science Fiction and Fantasy worlds, but it’s great fun.
Many NaNoWriMo-ites speak of the virtues of caffeine and junk food while writing. Not so for me. I eat normal, health meals and get my seven hours of sleep. I schedule time (5 AM – 8 AM) every morning to write and will write at other times if possible. Last year, I had a day job and family to schedule writing time around. This year, I don’t have a day job to worry about, but I’ll stick to my writing time and still have time for family. 5 AM is when I write every day and it’s my most productive time.
During NaNoWriMo 2016, I will focus on the second book in my Finding Earth series, Pyxis. I will be creating another new world so I’ve got to get busy.
If you want to focus on a writing project during the month of November, join me at NaNoWriMo.
I just published my fourth novel, an achievement that is equal parts joy and doubt. Joy that I’ve grown as a writer with each book and made some wonderful friends along the way. Doubt that I’m not marketing the books very hard.
The digital version of Betrayed is available for free from Amazon.com September 15 – 19. If you haven’t already, pick up a copy and leave a review. Betrayed is book 3 in the Farseen Chronicles series and is offered as a lead-in to book 4, Revealed, which comes out on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. The series can be read in any order, but the chronological order of all novels and flash fiction can be found here.
Link to your free digital copy of Betrayed.
Tempest, the shifter sovereign’s enforcer, continues to work with a task force, searching throughout earth and the five fae realms for Shadowed facilities. With little to show for their efforts, tension builds within the preternatural community.
Within the shape shifter community, betrayal hits home for the Alpha Clan and another fae family member arrives asking for help.
Can the Shadowed be stopped before preternatural alliances are destroyed?
Revealed, book 4 in the Farseen Chronicles series, will be available to purchase at Amazon.com on 9/20/2016.
N. R. Tucker 