Author: grasshopper

2012 was quite a creative year for me. I hope this year proves to be the same and much, much more!

December was just as busy as November was since I had to put all my holiday present making on hold for NaNo (normally I pace myself throughout the entire two months). With that in mind, where’s a look at what I did in December!

I painted these pictures for my mother and sisters:

  

 

 

See my final total for NaNo in my previous post!

October’s art

 

 

 

I was taken hostage during the month of November by NaNo, and I am extremely excited to report that I did it! I hit the 50K mark! All that writing was not for naught 😉

Now that the time crunch is over with, I am less busy and can update and play on the Internet with my usual vigor. I still have about 20 to 30K to go before the actual novel is finished, but now that November is over, I can do it at my leisure!

Today is December 1st, so bring on the home-made Christmas presents and the continuation of my progress on getting my children’s book printed out!

I will update October and November’s End of Month post shortly.

Wait…that’s right now!

I honestly did not know what I was getting myself into when I decided to sign up for NaNoWriMo this year. I did not think it would consume everything! Even though I had made myself an outline that details every single chapter, it is still a lot of work!

NaNo time:

Weekdays
Get home from work
Cook and eat dinner
Do the dishes
Two hours of NaNo (or more)
Two hours to relax (if that)
Bed time!

Weekends
Random stuff in the morning
Write all afternoon while taking breaks to get a few household things done
Random stuff at night

This is both a rewarding and learning experience. I know I’ll thank myself for putting myself through this when I’m done!

Here is a snapshot of when I was still trying to figure out my NaNo schedule and was still writing some of it out by hand. I blurred the words for obvious reasons.

I know I still need to upload October’s art! I’m going to do that at the end of November when NaNo is out of the way…I still need to accomplish something artistic so that November will at least have something to upload on here.

The Children’s Book
I’ve finished formatting it, and I’ve also finished designing the cover. All I need to do is to make an account on the self publisher’s website and follow the steps to get myself a proof copy! I may wait until I’m done with NaNo so that I can give this my full attention. As I said before, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I signed up for it this year.

The past few weeks have been busy and stressful.  I’m posting an update to let you all know that I’m still here! The end of month post for October will be uploaded sometime this week.

I’m hoping that things calm down soon and that I’ll be posting regularly again!

In other news, I am doing NaNoWriMo this year! I’m 7583 words in so far. As for my illustrations and that project, I’m almost finished with it.  The formatting is almost done. I can’t wait to finish it and to show it off!