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NANOWRIMO 2011: Words of Wisdom (Or just words, you decide)

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Well the madness has begun. So far I have agreed to be a co-ML, but am relying on the other two to guide me through the month, have been to a great kick-off with lots of great stuff going on, went to a write-in at the local library, again lots of great stuff going on and then hosted an on-line write in last night. I have written 4037 words while encouraging a ten year old to get her stuff together and write 200 words a day, (so far she has only written 200, she is already 200 behind). It may seem like I have things all together. Guess what I don’t have it anymore together than anyone else at this point. Those 4000 words have been like pulling teeth. Soon I will get into the ZONE, but I’m still waiting. So like you all I continue to forge ahead.

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When I started I didn’t even know my mc’s name, but that came to me the last night. I now have a  mysterious antagonist that also revealed himself yesterday
Funny as I sit here and try to find some words of wisdoms to share with you that would motivate you as well as me. I contemplate what I have been through and will continue to go through for the rest of the month and I realized that just going through the process spurs the imagination, feeds the flames of imagination or the muse, whichever you chose. But you have to do the work, you have to sit in your chair and your hands on the keyboard or pencil in hand and just do it.
Anyway, my words are escaping me (go figure) so I’m going to give you a little quote from Dorothea Brande, in her book Becoming a Writer:
Say to yourself: “At ten o’clock on Wednesday I will begin to write (the  story),”[or whatever day you plan to start, hopefully you already started on Tuesday] and then dismiss it from your mind. Now and then it will rise to the surface. You need not reject it with violence, but reject it. You are not ready for it yet; let it subside again. Three days will do it no harm, will even help. But when ten o’clock strikes on Wednesday you sit down to work.
Now; strike out at once … (T)ake no excuses, refuse to feel any stage fright; simply start working. If a good first sentence does not come, leave a space for it and write it in later. Write as rapidly as possible, with as little attention to your own processes as you can give. (Taken from James Scott Bell, The Art of War for Writers).
So take her advice and mine as well get you butt in a chair get your favorite pen or keyboard and write. Take courage and jump right in. Write on.
Write On and God Bless,
Christina Weigand
PS: The twins finally let me go, but Myrria won’t let go, so she has a part in this new YA Fantasy.

Updates and Looking Ahead

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So here it is what I think my schedule will look like for the next few months. I am excited and a little scared by it. I will definately have to be more organized and spend less time playing games and more time focusing on the writing and family.

Note the blue violet boxes that say school.  I’m not going back to school, but I am volunteering at my daughter’s school two days a week to help the kids with writing. You will also note that the pink which is for my writing time, well there doesn’t seem to be a lot of it, so I will have to make the most of the time I do have. Monday and Thursdays, when I have the biggest blocks of writing time, I intend to also do a blog post. Mondays will be my devotional blog post and Thursday will be for updates and discussion about my books.

Now for a few updates:

Palace of Twelve Pillars: The news here is most exciting. I am finally submitting it to agents and editors. So far I have sent out three submittals, two to agents and one to an editor. Now you may be asking how did I get here? Most of you know about the years spent writing and tearing my hair out, but I haven’t shared what happened at the beginning of August. So here it is. August 4-7 I attended the PNWA (Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association) Conference. What an awesome, sometimes overwhelming, extremely satisfying conference. It was nothing like I had ever been to before. (of course I have never been to a really big conference like this one before.) Anyway so I signed up for this conference and for one pitch the agent session. When I got my confirmation I was disappointed in the agent that I was scheduled with. Even though I had requested him, he was third on my list. I contemplated cancelling the appointment, but for whatever reason didn’t follow through. (I think it was a God-incidence, more about that later.)
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I arrive at the conference, with pitch in hand, thinking I was ready to rock-a-roll. One of the first workshops I went to was on pitching. My pitch even though I had spent weeks on it wasn’t quite there yet. After several more rewrites and pitching to numerous other conference attendees I finally had it down. I spent a few hours standing in line and was able to schedule three more pitch sessions. So now I had two agents and two editors lined up to pitch to.

Saturday morning 9:00 first pitch. The one that was prescheduled by the conference plannners and the one that I thought about cancelling. I’m very nervous. I go in and give my pitch. The agent is interested. He wants to see more of my work.

The next two appointments go in a similar way, another agent and an editor want to see more of my work. The last appointment in the day doesn’t go as well, but still a hit. She is a publisher but they don’t publish Christian anything. However she does know someone who does and might be interested in seeing my stuff. So I’d say I hit a grand slam.

Oh and the God-incidence, you can see it was a good thing I didn’t cancel that appointment, because he was the one that showed the most interest and asked for the most stuff.

Palace of Three Crosses- resting in the drawer. Will get back to revisions in a few months.

Sanctuary of Nine Dragons-still unfinished, but working on it. Started in my critique group. Aiming to finish by the end of September if not sooner.  Hoping all the twins will tell me the end of the story soon.

NANO 2011- story undetermined as of yet. I know there is a dragon and a Romanian castle, but don’t know what they are doing yet. I also committed to be a Municipal Liason for the year, so I can help out my other half a brain.

It looks like a pretty full schedule till the end of December. I’ll be checking in and looking for input along the way.

All for the glory of God,

Christina Weigand