Changes and Updates

 

Ok, so it’s been a while to add a chapter to Wattpad Works-in-Progress. The business of promoting and having an internet presence demands consistent content uploading; the artist process demands or rather tends to get distracted and meanders from one creative endeavor to another. 

Meandering took me from redesigning font/lettering layout of covers, drawing characters, deciding if I should have two Wattpad pages or one depending on maturity level. Then, there was cursing an old computer to learning how to do it all on the iPad Air, to family time, to watching movies, to putting in a garden and battling critters eating it. You get the point. 

So, chapter 6 of Honey Apiary is up on the second Wattpad account under the A.E.Keyes penname which will hold more mature content that has violence and not-behind-closed-doors sex.

Wattpad allows readers to comment and suggest edits. I welcome comments there and here. 

    What do you want to read? 

    Where do you want to see the story go?

    What cover changes would you make?

    How many typo grammar errors have I made? 

Links to all sorts of creative endeavors on the Tentacle Ties page

Primordial Soup Ingrediant - NaNoWriMo

The first NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month) I entered, I won. What a feeling of accomplishment. I did it for the pure challenge of writing a completely realized novel. I didn’t even know about NaNo until it had been going on for four days. Starting behind (thousands of word behind), I completed 50,000 words, two hours before the midnight deadline for my time zone. What a rush!

I have four novels in various stages of editing because of NaNoWriMo. Writing in this intense manner took my writing from disjointed scenes to full fledged fully actualized plots-beginning, middle, end. I am going for it for the fifth time, though if you look at my author page on NaNo, you won't see previous novels writing wins. I am writing under my pen name for the first time.The blank slate is a different level of motivation.

I’m a come from behind winner for NaNo and every year I have intentions of keeping on top of my word count. November is extremely busy month with holidays, plays, and rehearsal. But, I will complete 50,000 words towards a novel by months end. During this intense writing time, I will post unedited excerpts from the 2014 NaNo novel. I hope you will enjoy these months blog updates. Happy November!!!